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20182026
most citedPennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations

233 citations · 386 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

quant-ph2026

Tucker iterative quantum state preparation

Carsten Blank, Israel F. Araujo

Quantum state preparation is a fundamental component of quantum algorithms, particularly in quantum machine learning and data processing, where classical data must be encoded effic…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Towards Arbitrary QUBO Optimization: Analysis of Classical and Quantum-Activated Feedforward Neural Networks

Chia-Tso Lai, Carsten Blank, Peter Schmelcher +1

Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) sits at the heart of many industries and academic fields such as logistics, supply chain, finance, pharmaceutical science, chemis…

quant-ph2024

Quantum-inspired classification via efficient simulation of Helstrom measurement

Wooseop Hwang, Daniel K. Park, Israel F. Araujo +1

The Helstrom measurement (HM) is known to be the optimal strategy for distinguishing non-orthogonal quantum states with minimum error. Previously, a binary classifier based on clas…

quant-ph2022★ 26 cited

Hierarchical quantum circuit representations for neural architecture search

Matt Lourens, Ilya Sinayskiy, Daniel K. Park +2

Machine learning with hierarchical quantum circuits, usually referred to as Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs), is a promising prospect for near-term quantum computing.…

quant-ph2022★ 20 cited

Compact quantum kernel-based binary classifier

Carsten Blank, Adenilton J. da Silva, Lucas P. de Albuquerque +2

Quantum computing opens exciting opportunities for kernel-based machine learning methods, which have broad applications in data analysis. Recent works show that quantum computers c…

quant-ph2021★ 29 cited

Low-rank quantum state preparation

Israel F. Araujo, Carsten Blank, Ismael C. S. Araújo +1

Ubiquitous in quantum computing is the step to encode data into a quantum state. This process is called quantum state preparation, and its complexity for non-structured data is exp…

quant-ph2021★ 9 cited

Robust quantum classifier with minimal overhead

Daniel K. Park, Carsten Blank, Francesco Petruccione

To witness quantum advantages in practical settings, substantial efforts are required not only at the hardware level but also on theoretical research to reduce the computational co…

quant-ph2021★ 7 cited

Quantum State Discrimination for Supervised Classification

Roberto Giuntini, Hector Freytes, Daniel K. Park +4

In this paper we investigate the connection between quantum information theory and machine learning. In particular, we show how quantum state discrimination can represent a useful…

quant-ph2020

Quantum-enhanced analysis of discrete stochastic processes

Carsten Blank, Daniel K. Park, Francesco Petruccione

Discrete stochastic processes (DSP) are instrumental for modelling the dynamics of probabilistic systems and have a wide spectrum of applications in science and engineering. DSPs a…

quant-ph2020★ 57 cited

The theory of the quantum kernel-based binary classifier

Daniel K. Park, Carsten Blank, Francesco Petruccione

Binary classification is a fundamental problem in machine learning. Recent development of quantum similarity-based binary classifiers and kernel method that exploit quantum interfe…

quant-ph2019

Quantum classifier with tailored quantum kernel

Carsten Blank, Daniel K. Park, June-Koo Kevin Rhee +1

Kernel methods have a wide spectrum of applications in machine learning. Recently, a link between quantum computing and kernel theory has been formally established, opening up oppo…

quant-ph2018★ 233 cited

PennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations

Ville Bergholm, Josh Izaac, Maria Schuld +65

PennyLane is a Python 3 software framework for differentiable programming of quantum computers. The library provides a unified architecture for near-term quantum computing devices,…