51 papers
The Organization of Environmental Coupling Shapes What Quantum Reservoirs Remember
Markus Baumann, Itamar Fink, Johannes Wittmann +2
For an open quantum reservoir, how the system forgets is part of how it computes. Quantum reservoir computing processes input streams with fixed quantum dynamics and trains only a…
Implicit Differentiation for Measurement-Efficient Bilevel Quantum-Classical Optimization
Tobias Rohe, Markus Baumann, Federico Harjes Ruiloba +3
Quantum optimization has shown promising results for quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems. Real-world applications, however, often involve polynomial coeffic…
Emergent Problem-Graph Alignment in RL-Discovered Entanglement Topologies for QAOA
Tobias Rohe, Federico Harjes Ruiloba, Markus Baumann +4
In the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), the entanglement topology, where qubit pairs are connected by two-qubit gates, is conventionally set equal to the edge set…
From Quantum Shots to Training Data: Reorganizing Measurement Records in Quantum Machine Learning
Markus Baumann, Maximilian Zorn, Thomas Gabor +2
The paper introduces a shot‑grouping technique that partitions quantum measurement records into disjoint groups and averages within each group, providing a tunable trade‑off betwee…
Constrained Quantum Optimization via Iterative Warm-Start XY-Mixers
David Bucher, Maximilian Janetschek, Michael Poppel +3
The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a leading hybrid heuristic for combinatorial optimization, but efficiently handling hard constraints remains a significant…
Exploiting Symmetry in Quantum Reservoir Computing
Markus Baumann, Michael Poppel, Thomas Gabor +3
Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) uses a quantum processor without training it. The input is encoded into a quantum state, a fixed random circuit evolves it, selected observables a…