Publications (28)
Comprehensive Library of Variational LSE Solvers
Nico Meyer, Martin Röhn, Jakob Murauer +3
Linear systems of equations can be found in various mathematical domains, as well as in the field of machine learning. By employing noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, variat…
Design-Time Optimization of Deep Neural Networks for Intermittent Learning on Microcontrollers
Jakob Schubert, Maximilian Kasper, Maximilian Linke +5
We present a method for designing deep neural networks (DNNs) for intermittent, energy-autonomous, on-device learning on microcontroller units (MCUs). In mobile applications where…
Optimal joint cutting of two-qubit rotation gates
Christian Ufrecht, Laura S. Herzog, Daniel D. Scherer +4
Circuit cutting, the partitioning of quantum circuits into smaller independent fragments, has become a promising avenue for scaling up current quantum-computing experiments. Here,…
Quantum Natural Policy Gradients: Towards Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Nico Meyer, Daniel D. Scherer, Axel Plinge +2
Reinforcement learning is a growing field in AI with a lot of potential. Intelligent behavior is learned automatically through trial and error in interaction with the environment.…
How to Learn from Risk: Explicit Risk-Utility Reinforcement Learning for Efficient and Safe Driving Strategies
Lukas M. Schmidt, Sebastian Rietsch, Axel Plinge +2
Autonomous driving has the potential to revolutionize mobility and is hence an active area of research. In practice, the behavior of autonomous vehicles must be acceptable, i.e., e…
Pareto Optimal Benchmarking of AI Models on ARM Cortex Processors for Sustainable Embedded Systems
Pranay Jain, Maximilian Kasper, Göran Köber +3
This work presents a practical benchmarking framework for optimizing artificial intelligence (AI) models on ARM Cortex processors (M0+, M4, M7), focusing on energy efficiency, accu…
Investigating Target Class Influence on Neural Network Compressibility for Energy-Autonomous Avian Monitoring
Nina Brolich, Simon Geis, Maximilian Kasper +3
Biodiversity loss poses a significant threat to humanity, making wildlife monitoring essential for assessing ecosystem health. Avian species are ideal subjects for this due to thei…
Cutting multi-control quantum gates with ZX calculus
Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy, Sebastian Rietsch +3
Circuit cutting, the decomposition of a quantum circuit into independent partitions, has become a promising avenue towards experiments with larger quantum circuits in the noisy-int…
Driver Dojo: A Benchmark for Generalizable Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving
Sebastian Rietsch, Shih-Yuan Huang, Georgios Kontes +2
Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown to reach super human-level performance across a wide range of tasks. However, unlike supervised machine learning, learning strategies that gen…
PrototypeNAS: Rapid Design of Deep Neural Networks for Microcontroller Units
Mark Deutel, Simon Geis, Axel Plinge
Enabling efficient deep neural network (DNN) inference on edge devices with different hardware constraints is a challenging task that typically requires DNN architectures to be spe…
Efficient Beam Search for Initial Access Using Collaborative Filtering
George Yammine, Georgios Kontes, Norbert Franke +2
Beamforming-capable antenna arrays overcome the high free-space path loss at higher carrier frequencies. However, the beams must be properly aligned to ensure that the highest powe…
SCIM MILQ: An HPC Quantum Scheduler
Philipp Seitz, Manuel Geiger, Christian Ufrecht +4
With the increasing sophistication and capability of quantum hardware, its integration, and employment in high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure becomes relevant. This ope…
Incremental Data-Uploading for Full-Quantum Classification
Maniraman Periyasamy, Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht +3
The data representation in a machine-learning model strongly influences its performance. This becomes even more important for quantum machine learning models implemented on noisy i…
Unitary Synthesis of Clifford+T Circuits with Reinforcement Learning
Sebastian Rietsch, Abhishek Y. Dubey, Christian Ufrecht +4
This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning approach for synthesizing unitaries into quantum circuits. Unitary synthesis aims to identify a quantum circuit that represents a…
A Survey on Quantum Reinforcement Learning
Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy +3
Quantum reinforcement learning is an emerging field at the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning. While we intend to provide a broad overview of the literature on…
Guided-SPSA: Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation assisted by the Parameter Shift Rule
Maniraman Periyasamy, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler +2
The study of variational quantum algorithms (VQCs) has received significant attention from the quantum computing community in recent years. These hybrid algorithms, utilizing both…
Quantum Wasserstein Compilation: Unitary Compilation using the Quantum Earth Mover's Distance
Marvin Richter, Abhishek Y. Dubey, Axel Plinge +3
Despite advances in the development of quantum computers, the practical application of quantum algorithms requiring deep circuit depths or high-fidelity transformations remains out…
Quantum Policy Gradient Algorithm with Optimized Action Decoding
Nico Meyer, Daniel D. Scherer, Axel Plinge +2
Quantum machine learning implemented by variational quantum circuits (VQCs) is considered a promising concept for the noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing era. Focusing on ap…
Optimizing Quantum Circuits via ZX Diagrams using Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks
Alexander Mattick, Maniraman Periyasamy, Christian Ufrecht +4
Quantum computing is currently strongly limited by the impact of noise, in particular introduced by the application of two-qubit gates. For this reason, reducing the number of two-…
Uncovering Instabilities in Variational-Quantum Deep Q-Networks
Maja Franz, Lucas Wolf, Maniraman Periyasamy +5
Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has considerably advanced over the past decade. At the same time, state-of-the-art RL algorithms require a large computational budget in terms of t…
Warm-Start Variational Quantum Policy Iteration
Nico Meyer, Jakob Murauer, Alexander Popov +4
Reinforcement learning is a powerful framework aiming to determine optimal behavior in highly complex decision-making scenarios. This objective can be achieved using policy iterati…
C-MCTS: Safe Planning with Monte Carlo Tree Search
Dinesh Parthasarathy, Georgios Kontes, Axel Plinge +1
The Constrained Markov Decision Process (CMDP) formulation allows to solve safety-critical decision making tasks that are subject to constraints. While CMDPs have been extensively…
Improving Quantum and Classical Decomposition Methods for Vehicle Routing
Laura S. Herzog, Friedrich Wagner, Christian Ufrecht +4
Quantum computing is a promising technology to address combinatorial optimization problems, for example via the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). Its potential, ho…
Efficient Network Inference via Hardware-Aware Architecture Search, Model Pruning & Quantization
Lucas Heublein, Mark Deutel, Axel Plinge +1
Embedded global navigation satellite system (GNSS) interference monitoring requires fast and memory-efficient inference to process large volumes of raw in-phase and quadrature (IQ)…
An Introduction to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Review of its Application to Autonomous Mobility
Lukas M. Schmidt, Johanna Brosig, Axel Plinge +2
Many scenarios in mobility and traffic involve multiple different agents that need to cooperate to find a joint solution. Recent advances in behavioral planning use Reinforcement L…
BCQQ: Batch-Constraint Quantum Q-Learning with Cyclic Data Re-uploading
Maniraman Periyasamy, Marc Hölle, Marco Wiedmann +3
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) often requires a large number of data and environment interactions, making the training process time-consuming. This challenge is further exacerba…
Qiskit-Torch-Module: Fast Prototyping of Quantum Neural Networks
Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy +4
Quantum computer simulation software is an integral tool for the research efforts in the quantum computing community. An important aspect is the efficiency of respective frameworks…
An Empirical Comparison of Optimizers for Quantum Machine Learning with SPSA-based Gradients
Marco Wiedmann, Marc Hölle, Maniraman Periyasamy +5
VQA have attracted a lot of attention from the quantum computing community for the last few years. Their hybrid quantum-classical nature with relatively shallow quantum circuits ma…