arXiv:2606. 14822v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Machine Learning have transformed numerous industrial sectors, yet classical paradigms face fundamental limitations: rapidly growing data volumes, rising computational costs, significant energy consumption, and the physical scaling limits of conventional hardware architectures.
By L\'eo Monbroussou
arXiv:2609.06307v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We study variational quantum distribution learning through a hierarchy of Walsh--Fourier approximations on the Boolean cube. At each level, a selecte...
By Taha Hoseinpour Asli, Sajjad Hashemian, Ebrahim Ardeshir-Larijani
arXiv:2606. 31536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Quantum Machine Learning (QML) transitions toward practical implementation, the field faces a critical architectural bottleneck that challenges the fundamental assumptions of classical statistical learning theory.
By Kung-Ming Lan
arXiv:2606. 01291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) under Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) constraints introduces severe computational limitations: classical statevector simulation memory scales exponentially ($\mathcal{O}(2^n)$), and global cost functions suffer from barren plateaus where gradient variance decays exponentially ($\mathcal{O}(1/2^n)$).
By Syed Farhan Ahmad, Gregory T. Byrd
The paper investigates whether quantum reinforcement learning algorithms can be matched by efficient classical methods. It focuses on a simplified reinforcement learning setting with a uniform generative model, providing finite‑sample guarantees for classical kernelized Fitted Q‑Iteration that uses kernels aligned with parameterized quantum circuits. The authors identify sufficient conditions on data encoding, kernel choice, and problem structure under which this classical approach dequantizes quantum Q‑learning, and suggest using kernelized Fitted Q‑Iteration as a heuristic when those conditions cannot be verified.
By Pablo Rodriguez-Grasa, Sofiene Jerbi, Mikel Sanz, Ryan Sweke
arXiv:2607. 01080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate Gaussian process (GP) bandit optimization with quantum kernels, assuming the mean reward function lies in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) induced by the quantum kernel.
By Yuqi Huang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Sharu Theresa Jose
arXiv:2607. 01197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum computing has emerged as a promising computational paradigm for machine learning (ML), with the potential to offer computational advantages over classical approaches.
By Chuanming Yu, Jiaming Liu, Zihao Ge, Xiongfei Wu, Lulu Zhu, Pengzhan Zhao, Jianjun Zhao
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
arXiv:2607. 21409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central challenge in quantum machine learning is understanding the scaling behavior of parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs).
By Marie Kempkes, Elies Gil-Fuster, Carlos Bravo-Prieto, Aroosa Ijaz, Alissa Wilms, Jens Eisert, Evert van Nieuwenburg, Vedran Dunjko
arXiv:2606. 09734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training parameterised quantum circuits (PQCs) on quantum hardware is bottlenecked by the measurement cost of gradient estimation, which under the parameter-shift rule scales linearly in the number of trainable parameters and dominates the total shot budget of training at scale.
By Brian Coyle, Snehal Raj, Virag Umathe, El Amine Cherrat, Elham Kashefi
Q-Capsule is a localized capsule-based quantum neural architecture designed to mitigate barren plateaus in variational quantum algorithms. It achieves this through register partitioning, local readout, sparse inter-capsule coupling, trainable data re-uploading, and a Quantum Fisher Information Matrix-guided adaptive depth growth. The approach maintains stable gradient variance as register width increases, produces more structured optimization landscapes, improves parameter efficiency and noise robustness, and reduces measurement requirements while achieving high classification accuracy with fewer two-qubit gates.
By Awal Ahmed Fime, Tasfia Zaman Samiha, Saika Zaman, Dimitris Pados, George Sklivanitis, Abdur R. Shahid, Ahmed Imteaj
The paper introduces a hybrid quantum–classical regression framework that uses a lightweight classical embedding as a learnable geometric preconditioner to improve the conditioning of a downstream variational quantum circuit. It further incorporates a curriculum optimization protocol that gradually increases circuit depth and switches from SPSA-based exploration to Adam-based fine‑tuning. Experiments on PDE‑informed and standard regression datasets show that this approach consistently outperforms pure QNN baselines, yielding more stable convergence and reduced structured errors, especially in data‑limited regimes.
By Qingyu Meng, Yangshuai Wang