The paper presents a reinforcement‑learning approach to schedule link‑level entanglement in quantum networks, using a Markov Decision Process and double deep Q‑networks with message‑passing neural networks. The resulting policies achieve 100% success rates even when the link activation probability is reduced by up to 71% compared to baseline heuristics, and maintain at least 80% success when task placements are hardware‑restricted. The authors also develop metrics to interpret the learned policy and employ a large language model to generate a heuristic that matches the DQN performance, suggesting a scalable method for extracting interpretable strategies in large quantum networks.
arXiv:2509. 08654v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum network routing requires online decisions under probabilistic entanglement generation, finite quantum memories, decoherence, imperfect operations, and classical feedback, while the controller has incomplete knowledge of the physical state.
arXiv:2603. 10289v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Whether uniquely quantum resources confer advantages in fully classical, competitive environments remains an open question.
arXiv:2507. 18606v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a principled framework for decision-making in partially observable environments, which can be modeled as Markov decision processes and compactly represented through dynamic decision Bayesian networks.
arXiv:2607. 00365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum information (QI) are rapidly co-evolving.
arXiv:2406. 07884v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Using partial knowledge of a quantum state to control multiqubit entanglement is a largely unexplored paradigm in the emerging field of quantum interactive dynamics with the potential to address outstanding challenges in quantum state preparation and compression, quantum control, and quantum complexity.
The paper introduces GenQAS, a tensor network‑guided reinforcement learning framework that uses a learned local transition model to generate synthetic circuit transitions for prioritized generative replay. By mixing these synthetic transitions with real experience during Double Deep Q‑Network updates, GenQAS addresses sample starvation in quantum architecture search. Across benchmarks ranging from 6 to 15 qubits, the method improves success probabilities, identifies compact circuits, and reduces steps to chemical accuracy by up to 92.7%.
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.
arXiv:2607. 06230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) are increasingly used as policies and value functions in quantum reinforcement learning, yet it remains unclear when and why quantum policies generalize.
arXiv:2607. 09378v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study an adversarial bandit problem for entanglement-based quantum-network routing over a modest graph corpus.
arXiv:2604. 06135v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficient data loading remains a bottleneck for near-term quantum machine learning.
Quantum Reinforcement Learning for Cost and Delay Tradeoffs in Quantum Cloud Orchestration proposes QRLQ, a scheduling framework that integrates parameterised quantum circuits with a dueling double deep Q‑network to balance execution cost and delay in quantum‑as‑a‑service environments. Simulation results show QRLQ outperforms heuristic baselines, achieving 5‑11% lower mean cost and up to 82% lower mean delay while maintaining fidelity within 2% of a fidelity‑greedy policy. Compared to a classical deep reinforcement learning baseline, QRLQ delivers comparable performance with 72% fewer trainable parameters.
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.