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Exploring the Effect of Basis Rotation on NQS Performance

arXiv:2512. 17893v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neural Quantum States (NQS) are powerful variational representations of quantum many-body wavefunctions, yet their performance depends sensitively on the chosen basis.

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Jul 2

One More Time: Revisiting Neural Quantum States from a Reinforcement Learning Perspective

Neural quantum states (NQS) provide a flexible and scalable framework for approximating quantum many-body wavefunctions. Among NQS parameterizations, autoregressive models are especially attractive because they enable exact, independent sampling from the Born distribution, avoiding the autocorrelation and mixing issues of Markov chain methods.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

Enhanced NQS via Annealed Gradient Descent

arXiv:2607. 18865v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural quantum states offer expressive representations of quantum many-body wave functions, yet their practical accuracy can be limited by stochastic optimization rather than representational capacity.

By Shiwei Zhou, Yiming Huang, Xiao Yuan, Xiaoxia Cai
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Mechanistic Interpretability and Causal Feature Steering of Neural Quantum States via Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2607. 01336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Quantum States (NQS) are a remarkably expressive class of variational ans\"atze for quantum many-body wavefunctions, yet little is understood about their internal mechanisms: trained on variational objectives alone, how do NQS accurately capture physical observables that they have never been explicitly optimized for?

By Zihao Qi, Christopher Earls
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Zero-shot Quantum Neural Architecture Search

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 AI
Sep 17

QiT: Quantum-Inspired Transformer for Visual Recognition Task

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