Quantum generative adversarial networks (QGANs) have attracted increasing attention for image generation using parameterized quantum circuits. Existing amplitude-based approaches face two key limitations: pixel locations are typically encoded by computational-basis indices or address qubits, causing quantum resources to grow with image resolution; meanwhile, jointly decoding many pixels from normalized quantum states introduces probability competition among pixels and limits precise pixel-wise control.
Quantum Fidelity Landscape-Guided Prior Calibration for Single-Circuit QGAN Image Generation explores a simpler pixel‑level, end‑to‑end approach to quantum generative adversarial networks (QGANs) that avoids patch‑based decomposition. The authors introduce the Quantum Fidelity Landscape (QFL) as an invariant pairwise‑fidelity structure preserved under shared unitary transformations, and use it to calibrate the quantum prior before adversarial training. Their BasicQGAN framework aligns the prior‑induced QFL with the data‑induced QFL, achieving stable, effective image generation on small‑scale grayscale datasets while requiring fewer qubits and trainable parameters than patch‑based quantum generators.
By Xue Yang, Rigui Zhou, Dax Enshan Koh, Siong Thye Goh, Yitao Tang, ShiZheng Jia, Young-Wook Cho, Hongyu Chen
arXiv:2603.06755v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We propose a quantum implicit neural representation (QINR)-based autoencoder (AE) and variational autoencoder (VAE) for image reconstruction and ge...
By Saadet M\"uzehher Eren
arXiv:2603. 00233v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum generative modeling is a rapidly evolving discipline at the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning.
By Jonas J\"ager, Florian J. Kiwit, Carlos A. Riofr\'io
Quantum MeanFlow (QMF) is a new quantum generative sampling method that enables single‑step sample generation by learning an average velocity field over a time interval, unlike the multi‑step quantum flow matching (QFM) which requires sequential integration of an ordinary differential equation. Using parameterized quantum circuits, the authors benchmark QMF and QFM on the MNIST dataset, finding that QMF produces lower image quality than multi‑step QFM but outperforms single‑step QFM at every shot count. Both models were executed on IBM quantum computers, and best‑of‑N rejection sampling mitigates device noise without circuit modification, demonstrating QMF’s practicality for efficient single‑step quantum generative sampling.
By Ashish Joshi, Eshaan Mistry, Takahiko Koyama
Quantum Implicit Neural Representations for Novel View Synthesis introduces 3D Quantum Implicit Scene Representation (3D-QISR), a hybrid quantum‑classical radiance‑field model that replaces the classical NeRF backbone with parameterised quantum circuits. Two architectures are proposed: Full 3D-QISR, which uses a unified quantum state, and Dual‑Branch 3D-QISR, which separates spatial and view‑dependent embeddings to reduce complexity and improve scalability. Experiments on moderate‑resolution novel‑view synthesis benchmarks show that 3D‑QISR on simulated quantum hardware matches or outperforms classical baselines while using fewer than half the trainable parameters.
By Daniele Lizzio Bosco, Shuteng Wang, Giuseppe Serra, Vladislav Golyanik
arXiv:2606. 26312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoencoders transformed classical machine learning by solving the curse of dimensionality, enabling principled weight initialization and learning compact, structured representations.
By Aldo Lamarre, Dominik \v{S}afr\'anek
arXiv:2604. 06135v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficient data loading remains a bottleneck for near-term quantum machine learning.
By Basil Kyriacou, Viktoria Patapovich, Maniraman Periyasamy, Alexey Melnikov
QiT is a Quantum‑Inspired Transformer designed for visual recognition tasks. It replaces quantum neural network concepts with scalable classical operations: angle‑inspired encoding of image tokens, self‑attention over periodic features approximating quantum fidelity kernels, and gated multiplicative emulation of variational circuit interactions. The model achieves competitive performance on image‑classification benchmarks, matching a classical Transformer while avoiding the high runtime costs of simulated quantum models.
By Badri N. Patro, Vijay Agneeswaran
arXiv:2607. 07072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum diffusion models provide a physics-consistent route to generative learning by formulating noising and denoising directly on quantum states.
By Qipeng Qian, Keli Deng, Yuntao Qian
Medical image classification is often constrained by limited labeled data, motivating generative augmentation; recently, quantum generative models have been proposed for this purpose, frequently reporting accuracy gains. However, such claims are typically based on single training runs, do not match the parameter budgets of the quantum and classical generators, and do not characterize the data regime in which any benefit appears.
arXiv:2606. 18970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image classification is often constrained by limited labeled data, motivating generative augmentation; recently, quantum generative models have been proposed for this purpose, frequently reporting accuracy gains.
By Syed Mujtaba Haider, Silvia Figini