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most citedThe effect of data encoding on the expressive power of variational quantum machine learning models

747 citations · 1.2k across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

quant-ph2026

Towards Surrogate Based Dequantization of Quantum Reinforcement Learning

Pablo Rodriguez-Grasa, Sofiene Jerbi, Mikel Sanz +1

In recent years, the utility of parameterized quantum circuits as function approximators has been widely studied. In the context of reinforcement learning, this approach has led to…

quant-ph2026

Instantiating Microcrypt: Obstacles and opportunities via tailored state certification

Jose Carrasco, Jens Eisert, Soumik Ghosh +3

Recent work has introduced the Hamiltonian phase state (HPS) assumptions, which postulate that Hamiltonian phase states can be used to instantiate pseudorandom and one-way state ge…

quant-ph2026

Distributed Quantum Property Testing with Quantum Carrier Pigeons

Kenny Chen, Mina Doosti, Ryan Sweke +1

We introduce a framework for distributed quantum inference under communication constraints. In our model, distributed nodes each receive one copy of an unknown -dimensional…

quant-ph2026

Distributed Quantum Property Testing with Communication Constraints

Mina Doosti, Ryan Sweke, Chirag Wadhwa

We introduce a framework for distributed quantum inference under communication constraints. In our model, distributed nodes each receive one copy of an unknown -dimensional…

quant-ph2025

Wavefunction Flows: Efficient Quantum Simulation of Continuous Flow Models

David Layden, Ryan Sweke, Vojtěch Havlíček +2

Flow models are a cornerstone of modern machine learning. They are generative models that progressively transform probability distributions according to learned dynamics. Specifica…

quant-ph2025

Efficient Quantum Gibbs Sampling with Local Circuits

Dominik Hahn, Ryan Sweke, Abhinav Deshpande +1

The problem of simulating the thermal behavior of quantum systems remains a central open challenge in quantum computing. Unlike well-established quantum algorithms for unitary dyna…

quant-ph2025

Kernel-based dequantization of variational QML without Random Fourier Features

Ryan Sweke, Seongwook Shin, Elies Gil-Fuster

There is currently a huge effort to understand the potential and limitations of variational quantum machine learning (QML) based on the optimization of parameterized quantum circui…

quant-ph2025

New perspectives on quantum kernels through the lens of entangled tensor kernels

Seongwook Shin, Ryan Sweke, Hyunseok Jeong

Quantum kernel methods are one of the most explored approaches to quantum machine learning. However, the structural properties and inductive bias of quantum kernels are not fully u…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Dynamic parameterized quantum circuits: expressive and barren-plateau free

Abhinav Deshpande, Marcel Hinsche, Khadijeh Najafi +3

Classical optimization of parameterized quantum circuits is a widely studied methodology for the preparation of complex quantum states, as well as the solution of machine learning…

quant-ph2024

Interactive proofs for verifying (quantum) learning and testing

Matthias C. Caro, Jens Eisert, Marcel Hinsche +3

We consider the problem of testing and learning from data in the presence of resource constraints, such as limited memory or weak data access, which place limitations on the effici…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Learning topological states from randomized measurements using variational tensor network tomography

Yanting Teng, Rhine Samajdar, Katherine Van Kirk +5

Learning faithful representations of quantum states is crucial to fully characterizing the variety of many-body states created on quantum processors. While various tomographic meth…

quant-ph2023★ 18 cited

Potential and limitations of random Fourier features for dequantizing quantum machine learning

Ryan Sweke, Erik Recio-Armengol, Sofiene Jerbi +4

Quantum machine learning is arguably one of the most explored applications of near-term quantum devices. Much focus has been put on notions of variational quantum machine learning…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Classical Verification of Quantum Learning

Matthias C. Caro, Marcel Hinsche, Marios Ioannou +2

Quantum data access and quantum processing can make certain classically intractable learning tasks feasible. However, quantum capabilities will only be available to a select few in…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

On the average-case complexity of learning output distributions of quantum circuits

Alexander Nietner, Marios Ioannou, Ryan Sweke +4

In this work, we show that learning the output distributions of brickwork random quantum circuits is average-case hard in the statistical query model. This learning model is widely…

quant-ph2022★ 18 cited

A super-polynomial quantum-classical separation for density modelling

Niklas Pirnay, Ryan Sweke, Jens Eisert +1

Density modelling is the task of learning an unknown probability density function from samples, and is one of the central problems of unsupervised machine learning. In this work, w…

quant-ph2022★ 16 cited

Scalably learning quantum many-body Hamiltonians from dynamical data

Frederik Wilde, Augustine Kshetrimayum, Ingo Roth +3

The physics of a closed quantum mechanical system is governed by its Hamiltonian. However, in most practical situations, this Hamiltonian is not precisely known, and ultimately all…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 1 cited

Transparent reporting of research-related greenhouse gas emissions through the scientific COnduct initiative

Ryan Sweke, Paul Boes, Nelly H. Y. Ng +3

Estimating the greenhouse gas emissions of research-related activities is a critical first step towards the design of mitigation policies and actions. Here we propose and motivate…

quant-ph2021★ 4 cited

Learnability of the output distributions of local quantum circuits

Marcel Hinsche, Marios Ioannou, Alexander Nietner +6

There is currently a large interest in understanding the potential advantages quantum devices can offer for probabilistic modelling. In this work we investigate, within two differe…

quant-ph2021★ 4 cited

Encoding-dependent generalization bounds for parametrized quantum circuits

Matthias C. Caro, Elies Gil-Fuster, Johannes Jakob Meyer +2

A large body of recent work has begun to explore the potential of parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) as machine learning models, within the framework of hybrid quantum-classical…

quant-ph2020★ 747 cited

The effect of data encoding on the expressive power of variational quantum machine learning models

Maria Schuld, Ryan Sweke, Johannes Jakob Meyer

Quantum computers can be used for supervised learning by treating parametrised quantum circuits as models that map data inputs to predictions. While a lot of work has been done to…

quant-ph2020★ 85 cited

On the Quantum versus Classical Learnability of Discrete Distributions

Ryan Sweke, Jean-Pierre Seifert, Dominik Hangleiter +1

Here we study the comparative power of classical and quantum learners for generative modelling within the Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) framework. More specifically we consi…

math.NA2020★ 11 cited

Tensor network approaches for learning non-linear dynamical laws

A. Goeßmann, M. Götte, I. Roth +3

Given observations of a physical system, identifying the underlying non-linear governing equation is a fundamental task, necessary both for gaining understanding and generating det…

quant-ph2019★ 213 cited

Stochastic gradient descent for hybrid quantum-classical optimization

Ryan Sweke, Frederik Wilde, Johannes Meyer +4

Within the context of hybrid quantum-classical optimization, gradient descent based optimizers typically require the evaluation of expectation values with respect to the outcome of…

cs.LG2019★ 23 cited

Expressive power of tensor-network factorizations for probabilistic modeling, with applications from hidden Markov models to quantum machine learning

Ivan Glasser, Ryan Sweke, Nicola Pancotti +2

Tensor-network techniques have enjoyed outstanding success in physics, and have recently attracted attention in machine learning, both as a tool for the formulation of new learning…