arXiv:2607. 29491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement-learning-based quantum architecture search (RL-QAS) repeatedly optimizes a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) after extending a circuit, although circuit construction and action legality are deterministic and known.
By Jiayang Niu, Yan Wang, Jie Li, Ke Deng, Azadeh Alavi, Muhammad Usman, Yongli Ren
Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) are a promising framework for quantum machine learning on near-term quantum devices, but their security risks remain insufficiently understood. Studies have shown that QNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, yet existing quantum backdoors mostly rely on a fixed trigger shared by all poisoned inputs.
arXiv:2607. 11843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) are a promising framework for quantum machine learning on near-term quantum devices, but their security risks remain insufficiently understood.
By Junrui Zhang, Zemin Chen, Lusi Li, Mohammad Ghasemigol, Daniel Takabi, Rui Ning
arXiv:2606. 10448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The financial market is a typical low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) setting, which often destabilizes off-policy maximum-entropy methods like Soft Actor-Critic (SAC).
By Zeyu Liu, Xuanzhi Feng, Sing Kwong Lai, Yuanchen Gao, Xiaoyi Pang, Hualei Zhang, Jingcai Guo, Jie Zhang, Song Guo
arXiv:2606. 19947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable quantum control in the presence of decoherence requires policies that combat the effect of environmental noise on the controlled dynamics.
By Merijn Moody, Zier Mensch, Miranda C. N. Cheng, Peter G. Bolhuis, Max Welling
arXiv:2606. 08020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hard-constraint decision systems usually veto infeasible candidates.
By Yifan Wang
arXiv:2608. 15715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum feedback control requires acting on noisy continuous measurement records without direct access to the underlying quantum state.
By Priyanshi Singh, Krishna Bhatia
arXiv:2509. 08654v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum network routing requires online decisions under probabilistic entanglement generation, finite quantum memories, decoherence, imperfect operations, and classical feedback, while the controller has incomplete knowledge of the physical state.
By Amirhossein Taherpour, Abbas Taherpour, Tamer Khattab, Mazen Hasna
arXiv:2608. 10332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differentiable predictive control (DPC), a self-supervised learning approach for approximating explicit model predictive control (MPC) policies, offers significant computational advantages over online optimization-based MPC.
By Guangyu Wu, J\'an Drgo\v{n}a
arXiv:2606. 30520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual environments are a demanding setting for quantum reinforcement learning (QRL): high-dimensional observations, unstable RL optimisation, and constrained variational quantum circuits (VQCs) are difficult to train jointly.
By Javier Lazaro, Juan-Ignacio Vazquez, Pablo Garcia-Bringas
arXiv:2504. 05336v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A recurring weakness in quantum machine learning (QML) is that reported ``quantum advantages'' are seldom tested against a \emph{capacity-matched} classical control, leaving it unclear whether a gain comes from the quantum substrate or from the architectural change that accompanies it.
By Chi-Sheng Chen, En-Jui Kuo
arXiv:2606. 04812v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Guaranteeing safety is critical to the deployment of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in the real-world, especially as policies learned using deep RL may demonstrate susceptibility to transition perturbations that result in unknown or unsafe behaviour.
By Mohit Prashant, Arvind Easwaran