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most citedReinforcement Learning with Quantum Variational Circuits

16 citations · 43 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

A Review of Uncertainty for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Owen Lockwood, Mei Si

Uncertainty is ubiquitous in games, both in the agents playing games and often in the games themselves. Working with uncertainty is therefore an important component of successful d…

quant-ph2022★ 7 cited

An Empirical Review of Optimization Techniques for Quantum Variational Circuits

Owen Lockwood

Quantum Variational Circuits (QVCs) are often claimed as one of the most potent uses of both near term and long term quantum hardware. The standard approaches to optimizing these c…

quant-ph2021

QuantumCircuitOpt: An Open-source Framework for Provably Optimal Quantum Circuit Design

Harsha Nagarajan, Owen Lockwood, Carleton Coffrin

In recent years, the quantum computing community has seen an explosion of novel methods to implement non-trivial quantum computations on near-term hardware. An important direction…

cs.LG2021

Optimizing Quantum Variational Circuits with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Owen Lockwood

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is considered to be one of the most promising applications of near term quantum devices. However, the optimization of quantum machine learning models…

quant-ph2021★ 15 cited

Playing Atari with Hybrid Quantum-Classical Reinforcement Learning

Owen Lockwood, Mei Si

Despite the successes of recent works in quantum reinforcement learning, there are still severe limitations on its applications due to the challenge of encoding large observation s…

cs.LG2021

In Defense of the Paper

Owen Lockwood

The machine learning publication process is broken, of that there can be no doubt. Many of these flaws are attributed to the current workflow: LaTeX to PDF to reviewers to camera r…

quant-ph2020★ 16 cited

Reinforcement Learning with Quantum Variational Circuits

Owen Lockwood, Mei Si

The development of quantum computational techniques has advanced greatly in recent years, parallel to the advancements in techniques for deep reinforcement learning. This work expl…

quant-ph2020

TensorFlow Quantum: A Software Framework for Quantum Machine Learning

Michael Broughton, Guillaume Verdon, Trevor McCourt +26

We introduce TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ), an open source library for the rapid prototyping of hybrid quantum-classical models for classical or quantum data. This framework offers high…