arXiv Machine Learning

Hybrid quantum-classical neural network for sentiment analysis

arXiv:2607. 01943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum machine learning has recently emerged as a promising paradigm that leverages the expressive power of quantum circuits to address complex learning tasks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

QTrans: A Quantum Transformer for Sentiment Classification

QTrans is a quantum transformer designed for small‑scale binary sentiment classification. It constructs query, key, and value features using parameterized quantum circuits and derives attention coefficients from Gaussian distances between quantum measurements. The model incorporates a quantum feed‑forward network, residual connections, and layer normalization, achieving higher accuracies on MR, CR, and MPQA datasets compared to classical baselines.

By Ren-Xin Zhao, Xinjie Huang, Yahong Liu, Maoyu Ye, Jinjing Shi, Shi Wang, Yaonan Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Hybrid Variational Quantum-Classical Framework with Adaptive Weighting and Efficiency Assessment

Hybrid Variational Quantum-Classical Framework with Adaptive Weighting and Efficiency Assessment introduces Sim‑HVQC, a hybrid deep quantum neural network that integrates an adaptive, parameter‑free SimAM weighting module with classical feature extraction to retain class‑discriminative information before encoding into a Variational Quantum Circuit. Unlike prior work limited to binary classification, this framework is trained and evaluated on multiple multi‑class datasets such as MNIST, KMNIST, Fashion‑MNIST, and EMNIST. The study highlights reproducibility, parameter efficiency, and interpretability through multi‑seed evaluation, parameter analysis, and latent/quantum feature inspection, with source code publicly available on GitHub.

By Dilli Hang Rai
arXiv AI
Oct 2

Exponential quantum advantage in processing massive classical data

The paper demonstrates that a small quantum computer of polylogarithmic size can achieve large‑scale classification and dimension reduction on massive classical data, while any classical machine achieving the same performance would need exponentially larger size. It shows that classical machines even if exponentially larger still require superpolynomially more samples and time. The authors provide evidence from real‑world applications such as single‑cell RNA sequencing and movie review sentiment analysis, achieving four to six orders of magnitude reduction in size with fewer than 60 logical qubits.

By Haimeng Zhao, Alexander Zlokapa, Hartmut Neven, Ryan Babbush, John Preskill, Jarrod R. McClean, Hsin-Yuan Huang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Classical and Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning for Trigger-Like Event Selection on CMS Open Data: An Eight-Qubit, PCA-Constrained Benchmark

The paper compares classical and hybrid quantum machine learning models for a trigger-like binary classification task using CMS open data. Eight classical models (SVM, ANN, CNN, LSTM) and eight quantum counterparts are evaluated under identical preprocessing, data splits, and decision thresholds, with performance measured by accuracy, ROC‑AUC, F1‑score, precision, and recall. The best classical model is an artificial neural network (93.53 % accuracy, 0.9819 ROC‑AUC), while the best quantum model is a quantum convolutional network (90.89 % accuracy, 0.9731 ROC‑AUC), indicating that within an eight‑qubit budget the quantum models do not surpass the classical ones.

By Tariq Mahmood, Muhammad Awais Rafique, Talab Hussain, Juan Pablo Perez Aguilar, Alfredo Raya, Muhammad Ahsan
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Variational Quantum Transformer Architecture for Synthetic Language Generation

The paper introduces a compact, NISQ‑compatible quantum transformer for synthetic QNLP sequence modelling. It replaces classical attention and feed‑forward layers with variational quantum encoder blocks, connector circuits, decoder blocks, and a two‑qubit measurement readout, while preserving the autoregressive next‑token interface. The authors evaluate several variants on deterministic and lexicographic grammar‑generation tasks, finding that the quantum models can learn nontrivial grammar structure but are less accurate and stable than a compact classical transformer baseline.

By Julian Hager, Michael K\"olle, Gerhard Stenzel, Tobias Rohe, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien