arXiv AI
Jun 2

Universal Quantum Transformer

arXiv:2606. 00045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical continuous-space neural networks fundamentally struggle to lock into exact mathematical symmetries, such as modular arithmetic and non-commutative algebra.

By Sungyong Chung, Alireza Talebpour
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Watching Quantum Models Think: Hilbert-Space Interpretability in Quantum Transformer Blocks

The paper demonstrates that quantum transformer blocks can be intrinsically interpretable by tracking quantum mutual information, entanglement entropy, and state fidelity across layers. Experiments on four synthetic tasks show that learned mutual information aligns with task structure, entanglement is essential for accuracy, and mutual information predicts prediction correctness. These findings are validated on IBM Quantum hardware, illustrating that quantum computation’s physics can provide observable interpretability signals.

By Diego Iacopetta, Andrea Gasparini
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