Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 4

Impact of Data Loss in Postprocessing on Training and Inference of Quantum Neural Networks

The paper investigates how postprocessing routines in quantum neural network software can inadvertently discard a large portion of valid measurement data when run on real quantum hardware. In a case study of Qiskit’s “SamplerQNN”, a filter that assumes virtual qubit space caused 85–99.6% of measurement shots to be lost on IBM backends, leading to unnormalised probability vectors, degraded inference accuracy (from 0.94 to 0.39), and a 22–27× compression of the training loss signal. The authors provide a layout‑based marginalisation fix that has been merged into the library to ensure forward‑compatibility with current and future hardware.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 6

How Much Reconstruction Does Quantum Machine Learning Need? Late Fusion of Independently Trained Quantum Subcircuits

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. We ask whether, for machine-learning tasks, this step is necessary, and replace it with late fusion: each subcircuit is trained and measured independently, and a small classical head combines their outputs - a linear-cost, decision-level combination borrowed from multimodal learning.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

Impact of Data Loss in Postprocessing on Training and Inference of Quantum Neural Networks

The paper investigates how postprocessing routines in quantum neural network software can cause significant data loss when run on large quantum hardware. In a case study of Qiskit’s “SamplerQNN”, a filter that assumes measurement bit‑strings are in virtual qubit space removed 85–99.6% of valid shots on IBM backends, leading to unnormalised probability vectors and distorted predictions. This loss caused inference accuracy to drop from 0.94 to 0.39 and compressed training loss signals by 22–27×, severely reducing optimizer sensitivity. The authors implemented a layout‑based marginalisation fix that was merged into the library to make “SamplerQNN” forward‑compatible with current and future hardware.

By Soraya V. Panambalom, Edoardo Altamura, Nick Chancellor, Jonte R. Hance