collaborators

23 papers

quant-ph2026

Near-Optimal Learning of Local Lindbladians

Itai Arad, Zhili Chen, Naixu Guo +2

We study the problem of learning local Lindbladians from black-box access to the physical evolution, where the goal is to estimate all Hamiltonian and dissipative coefficients. For…

quant-ph2026

Quantum enhanced rare event discovery and sampling

Naixu Guo, Po-Wei Huang, Qisheng Wang +4

Financial crashes, cascading failures in infrastructure, and critical errors in AI systems are frequently triggered by events that occur with extremely small probability. Efficient…

quant-ph2026

Accelerating Inference for Multilayer Neural Networks with Quantum Computers

Arthur G. Rattew, Po-Wei Huang, Naixu Guo +2

Fault-tolerant Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) promise to deliver exponential speed-ups in select computational tasks, yet their integration into modern deep learning pipelines rem…

quant-ph2026

QKAN: quantum Kolmogorov-Arnold networks with applications in machine learning and multivariate state preparation

Petr Ivashkov, Po-Wei Huang, Kelvin Koor +2

We introduce quantum Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (QKAN), a quantum algorithmic framework inspired by the recently proposed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN). QKAN inherits the compos…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Tilted Loss in Variational Optimization: Theory and Applications

Yixian Qiu, Josep Lumbreras, Xiufan Li +1

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are leading strategies for using near-term quantum devices, with a well-studied bottleneck being their trainability. Standard expectation-valu…

quant-ph2026

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Algorithm For Robust Optimization via Stochastic-Gradient Online Learning

Debbie Lim, Joao F. Doriguello, Patrick Rebentrost

Optimization theory has been widely studied in academia and finds a large variety of applications in industry. The different optimization models in their discrete and/or continuous…