The paper presents an evolutionary framework, EXAQC, that automatically discovers parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) for use as intermediate modules in hybrid quantum‑classical neural networks for image classification. By evolving PQCs while keeping classical feature‑extraction and prediction layers fixed, the authors achieve high accuracies on MNIST, Fashion‑MNIST, and CIFAR‑10 with gate counts comparable to other quantum architecture‑search methods. The evolved hybrid models match or exceed the performance of classical networks while using far fewer trainable parameters, and the choice of encoding (rotation‑based vs amplitude) significantly impacts accuracy.
By Devroop Kar, Daniel Krutz, Travis Desell
arXiv:2607. 29145v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum software engineering is an emerging research field focusing on efficiently embedding the quantum programming paradigm into existing software ecosystems.
By Piotr Malkowski, Domenik Eichhorn, Joshua Ammermann, Rinor Kelmendi, Nick Poser, Patrick Hopf, Ina Schaefer
arXiv:2512. 09586v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum circuit design is a key bottleneck for practical quantum machine learning on complex, real-world data.
By Prashant Kumar Choudhary, Nouhaila Innan, Muhammad Shafique, Rajeev Singh
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
Most multimodal learning methods improve how heterogeneous representations are aligned and fused, while post-fusion enhancement remains less explored. We propose Parallel Quantum Feature Augmentation (PQFA), a hybrid quantum-classical framework that applies multiple shallow variational quantum circuits to fused multimodal features.
arXiv:2607. 13466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most multimodal learning methods improve how heterogeneous representations are aligned and fused, while post-fusion enhancement remains less explored.
By Mingzhu Wang, Yun Shang
arXiv:2608. 01194v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence has been transformed by deep neural networks, yet the search for new learning architectures continues.
By L\'eo Monbroussou, Maniraman Periyasamy, Viacheslav Kuzmin, Pavel Sekatski, Viktoria Patapovich, Asel Sagingalieva, Alexey Melnikov
arXiv:2606. 13380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The design of high performing quantum circuits remains largely dependent on human expertise.
By Kenya Sakka, Wataru Mizukami, Kosuke Mitarai
arXiv:2510. 03389v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current quantum computers require algorithms that use limited resources economically.
By Jonas J\"ager, Philipp Els\"asser, Elham Torabian
arXiv:2608. 05595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Circuit cutting lets a large quantum neural network (QNN) run as independent subcircuits on small devices, but rebuilding its outputs by reconstruction carries a classical sampling overhead exponential in the number of cuts - the dominant runtime cost in prior work.
By Prabhjot Singh, Adel N. Toosi, Rajkumar Buyya
arXiv:2605. 22097v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Photonic quantum computing is a promising platform for scalable quantum machine learning, but designing effective hybrid architectures remains challenging under hardware and optimization constraints.
By Farah Elnakhal, Alberto Marchisio, Nouhaila Innan, Gabriel Falcao, Muhammad Shafique
arXiv:2605. 28690v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many applications in quantum simulation, quantum chemistry, and quantum machine learning require not a single quantum state but an ensemble of states characterizing the heterogeneity of a target system.
By Quoc Hoan Tran, Koki Chinzei, Yasuhiro Endo, Hirotaka Oshima