arXiv:2607. 22516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central design principle in modern machine learning and artificial intelligence is to align a model's inductive bias with the structure of its input data.
By Peiyong Wang, Udaya Parampalli, Casey R. Myers
The paper introduces Neural Fourier Surrogates (NFS), a stochastic classical neural network that learns coefficients over a finite Fourier series support similar to quantum neural networks (QNNs). By testing on tabular benchmark datasets, NFS demonstrates competitive classification performance against established classical baselines and data‑reuploading QNNs. The authors also compare the learned Fourier spectra of QNNs and NFS on synthetic data, positioning NFS as a natural classical baseline for evaluating QNN performance.
By Oliver Knitter, Jonathan Mei, Sang Hyub Kim, Chi Chen, Masako Yamada, Martin Roetteler
The paper presents an evolutionary framework, EXAQC, that automatically discovers parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) for use as intermediate modules in hybrid quantum‑classical neural networks for image classification. By evolving PQCs while keeping classical feature‑extraction and prediction layers fixed, the authors achieve high accuracies on MNIST, Fashion‑MNIST, and CIFAR‑10 with gate counts comparable to other quantum architecture‑search methods. The evolved hybrid models match or exceed the performance of classical networks while using far fewer trainable parameters, and the choice of encoding (rotation‑based vs amplitude) significantly impacts accuracy.
By Devroop Kar, Daniel Krutz, Travis Desell
arXiv:2604. 23931v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Variational quantum circuits (VQCs) are a leading approach to quantum machine learning on near-term devices, yet it remains unclear which circuit architecture yields the best accuracy-parameter trade-off on classical tabular data.
By Chi-Sheng Chen, En-Jui Kuo
arXiv:2508. 19437v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The importance of analyzing nontrivial datasets when testing quantum machine learning (QML) models is becoming increasingly prominent in literature, yet a cohesive framework for understanding dataset characteristics remains elusive.
By Alona Sakhnenko, Christian B. Mendl, Jeanette M. Lorenz
arXiv:2607. 09113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data scarcity and class imbalance are persistent challenges in machine learning that degrade model generalization and introduce predictive bias.
By Tanapol Nuatho, Narisorn Sangnakara, Prapong Prechaprapranwong, Rajchawit Sarochawikasit