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: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:2607. 00398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulating two-dimensional frustrated quantum matter is a grand challenge due to the sign problem and exponential Hilbert space complexity.
By Xingran Guo, Tiaojie Xiao, Jie Liu, Keqin Li
arXiv:2506. 21324v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neuromorphic and quantum computing have recently emerged as promising paradigms for advancing artificial intelligence, each offering complementary strengths.
By Jiechen Chen, Bipin Rajendran, Osvaldo Simeone
arXiv:2504. 05336v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A recurring weakness in quantum machine learning (QML) is that reported ``quantum advantages'' are seldom tested against a \emph{capacity-matched} classical control, leaving it unclear whether a gain comes from the quantum substrate or from the architectural change that accompanies it.
By Chi-Sheng Chen, En-Jui Kuo
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:2509. 14026v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Variational quantum circuits (VQCs) are central to quantum machine learning, while recent progress in Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) highlights the power of learnable activation functions.
By Jiun-Cheng Jiang, Morris Yu-Chao Huang, Tianlong Chen, Hsi-Sheng Goan
arXiv:2602. 06699v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a variational quantum implementation of self-attention (QSA)-the core operation in transformers and large language models-which predicts future elements of a sequence by forming overlap-weighted combinations of past data.
By Alessio Pecilli, Matteo Rosati
arXiv:2607. 12780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum circuit optimization for fault-tolerant computing requires exact functional equivalence while minimizing expensive non-Clifford resources such as T gates.
By Mehdi Saeedi, Eddie Richter, Paul Hartke
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
arXiv:2602. 05541v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Matrix multiplication is a fundamental operation in compute-intensive tasks and a key component of modern quantum acceleration frameworks.
By Jiaqi Yao, Tianjian Huang, Tonghe Zhang, Ding Liu
Quantum circuit optimization for fault-tolerant computing requires exact functional equivalence while minimizing expensive non-Clifford resources such as T gates. We study this problem using a compact 44.