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most citedEvaluation of Quantum and Hybrid Solvers for Combinatorial Optimization

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quant-ph2026

Approximate Quantum State Preparation Through Proximal Policy Optimization

Marco Mordacci, Michele Amoretti

In this work, a quantum architecture search framework for approximate quantum state preparation (QSP) is proposed. QSP is a challenging task, since the search space grows exponenti…

quant-ph2026

Parallel QEC Decoding Applied to Distributed Quantum Computing

Gabriele Incardona, Davide Ferrari, Michele Amoretti

A novel parallel approach is proposed for QEC decoding based on Belief Propagation with Ordered Statistics Decoding. The main idea is to pre-process the error vectors obtained from…

quant-ph2026

Algebraic Reduction to Improve an Optimally Bounded Quantum State Preparation Algorithm

Giacomo Belli, Michele Amoretti

The preparation of -qubit quantum states is a cross-cutting subroutine for many quantum algorithms, and the effort to reduce its circuit complexity is a significant challenge. I…

quant-ph2026

Advanced Scheduling Strategies for Distributed Quantum Computing Jobs

Gongyu Ni, Davide Ferrari, Lester Ho +1

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) is being actively investigated as a means of scaling the number of qubits across multiple connected quantum devices. This includes quantum circu…

quant-ph2025

Training Variational Quantum Circuits Using Particle Swarm Optimization

Marco Mordacci, Michele Amoretti

In this work, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm has been used to train various Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs). This approach is motivated by the fact that common…

quant-ph2025

Impact of Single Rotations and Entanglement Topologies in Quantum Neural Networks

Marco Mordacci, Michele Amoretti

In this work, an analysis of the performance of different Variational Quantum Circuits is presented, investigating how it changes with respect to entanglement topology, adopted gat…

quant-ph2025

Triplet Loss Based Quantum Encoding for Class Separability

Marco Mordacci, Mahul Pandey, Paolo Santini +1

An efficient and data-driven encoding scheme is proposed to enhance the performance of variational quantum classifiers. This encoding is specially designed for complex datasets lik…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quantum State Preparation with the QNN-based SRBB Algorithm

Giacomo Belli, Marco Mordacci, Michele Amoretti

In this work, a novel algorithm structured on Lie algebras for the approximate quantum state preparation problem is proposed, addressing a challenge of fundamental importance in ma…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

A Novel Single-Layer Quantum Neural Network for Approximate SRBB-Based Unitary Synthesis

Giacomo Belli, Marco Mordacci, Michele Amoretti

In this work, a novel quantum neural network is introduced as a means to approximate any unitary evolution through the Standard Recursive Block Basis (SRBB) and is subsequently red…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Multi-Class Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks

Marco Mordacci, Davide Ferrari, Michele Amoretti

Classification is particularly relevant to Information Retrieval, as it is used in various subtasks of the search pipeline. In this work, we propose a quantum convolutional neural…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Evaluation of Quantum and Hybrid Solvers for Combinatorial Optimization

Amedeo Bertuzzi, Davide Ferrari, Antonio Manzalini +1

Academic and industrial sectors have been engaged in a fierce competition to develop quantum technologies, fueled by the explosive advancements in quantum hardware. While universal…