The paper presents a method for reducing the size of Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) models used to solve the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (CVRPTW) on quantum annealers. It introduces adaptive penalty calibration to improve constraint satisfaction and replaces hand‑tuned merge heuristics with a graph neural network (GNN) that consistently achieves higher feasibility across Solomon benchmark families. Experiments on simulated annealing and a D‑Wave Advantage2 processor show significant reductions in constraint violations and improved feasibility rates, with the QUBO size remaining 5–6 times smaller.
By Youssef Kamel Rezk, Pawe{\l} Gora
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:2605. 27410v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are a leading approach to exploiting near-term quantum hardware, leveraging parameterized quantum circuits and classical optimization to achieve advantage.
By Tung Dao, Son N. Tran, Huynh Thi Thanh Binh
arXiv:2606. 27821v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic matrices (TMs) capture network-wide origin-destination demand and are central to traffic engineering, yet accurate whole-matrix forecasting remains challenging when prediction must be performed under the memory, update, and training-budget constraints of online network control.
By Kuo-Chung Peng, Jiun-Cheng Jiang, Chun-Hua Lin, Tai-Yue Li, Nan-Yow Chen, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen
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: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
arXiv:2606. 26873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graphs provide a natural language for relational data in chemistry, biology and optimisation.
By Snehal Raj, Brian Coyle, L\'eo Monbroussou, Andr\'e J. Ferreira-Martins, Renato M. S. Farias, Elham Kashefi
arXiv:2607. 01329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The geometric and topological structure of quantum cost landscapes (QCLs) governs the optimization and thus the predictive power of variational quantum algorithms (VQAs).
By Felix J. Beckmann, Jo\~ao F. Bravo
arXiv:2607. 19506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) uses fixed quantum dynamics as a high-dimensional temporal feature map and trains only a lightweight classical readout.
By Krishna Bhatia, Gautami Sanjay Naik
arXiv:2504. 20823v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate remaining useful life (RUL) estimation underpins safe operation and cost-effective maintenance of aerospace propulsion systems.
By Olga Tsurkan, Aleksandra Konstantinova, Arsenii Senokosov, Asel Sagingalieva, Alexey Melnikov
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
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