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quant-ph2026

Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks: Theory, Implementations, and Applications

Léo Monbroussou, Maniraman Periyasamy, Viacheslav Kuzmin +4

Artificial intelligence has been transformed by deep neural networks, yet the search for new learning architectures continues. Quantum machine learning offers one such direction, a…

quant-ph2026

A Transferable Machine Learning Approach to Predict Optimized Orbitals for Electronic Structure Problems

Lucas van der Horst, Maniraman Periyasamy, Abhishek Y. Dubey +3

Variational quantum eigensolver ansätze hold considerable promise for ground-state energy calculations on near-term quantum hardware, yet most promising ansatz designs currently st…

quant-ph2026

Soft-Quantum Algorithms

Basil Kyriacou, Mo Kordzanganeh, Maniraman Periyasamy +1

Quantum operations on pure states can be fully represented by unitary matrices. Variational quantum circuits, also known as quantum neural networks, embed data and trainable parame…

quant-ph2026★ 1 cited

Shot-based quantum encoding: a data-loading paradigm for quantum neural networks

Basil Kyriacou, Viktoria Patapovich, Maniraman Periyasamy +1

Efficient data loading remains a bottleneck for near-term quantum machine learning. Existing schemes (angle, amplitude, and basis encoding) either underuse the exponential Hilbert-…

quant-ph2025

CutReg: A loss regularizer for enhancing the scalability of QML via adaptive circuit cutting

Maniraman Periyasamy, Christian Ufrecht, Daniel D. Scherer +1

Whether QML can offer a transformative advantage remains an open question. The severe constraints of NISQ hardware, particularly in circuit depth and connectivity, hinder both the…

quant-ph2024★ 10 cited

Guided-SPSA: Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation assisted by the Parameter Shift Rule

Maniraman Periyasamy, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler +2

The study of variational quantum algorithms (VQCs) has received significant attention from the quantum computing community in recent years. These hybrid algorithms, utilizing both…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Unitary Synthesis of Clifford+T Circuits with Reinforcement Learning

Sebastian Rietsch, Abhishek Y. Dubey, Christian Ufrecht +4

This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning approach for synthesizing unitaries into quantum circuits. Unitary synthesis aims to identify a quantum circuit that represents a…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Qiskit-Torch-Module: Fast Prototyping of Quantum Neural Networks

Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy +4

Quantum computer simulation software is an integral tool for the research efforts in the quantum computing community. An important aspect is the efficiency of respective frameworks…

quant-ph2023★ 16 cited

Optimal joint cutting of two-qubit rotation gates

Christian Ufrecht, Laura S. Herzog, Daniel D. Scherer +4

Circuit cutting, the partitioning of quantum circuits into smaller independent fragments, has become a promising avenue for scaling up current quantum-computing experiments. Here,…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

BCQQ: Batch-Constraint Quantum Q-Learning with Cyclic Data Re-uploading

Maniraman Periyasamy, Marc Hölle, Marco Wiedmann +3

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) often requires a large number of data and environment interactions, making the training process time-consuming. This challenge is further exacerba…

quant-ph2023★ 27 cited

An Empirical Comparison of Optimizers for Quantum Machine Learning with SPSA-based Gradients

Marco Wiedmann, Marc Hölle, Maniraman Periyasamy +5

VQA have attracted a lot of attention from the quantum computing community for the last few years. Their hybrid quantum-classical nature with relatively shallow quantum circuits ma…

quant-ph2023★ 28 cited

Cutting multi-control quantum gates with ZX calculus

Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy, Sebastian Rietsch +3

Circuit cutting, the decomposition of a quantum circuit into independent partitions, has become a promising avenue towards experiments with larger quantum circuits in the noisy-int…

quant-ph2022★ 32 cited

A Survey on Quantum Reinforcement Learning

Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy +3

Quantum reinforcement learning is an emerging field at the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning. While we intend to provide a broad overview of the literature on…

quant-ph2022★ 15 cited

Incremental Data-Uploading for Full-Quantum Classification

Maniraman Periyasamy, Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht +3

The data representation in a machine-learning model strongly influences its performance. This becomes even more important for quantum machine learning models implemented on noisy i…

quant-ph2022★ 29 cited

Uncovering Instabilities in Variational-Quantum Deep Q-Networks

Maja Franz, Lucas Wolf, Maniraman Periyasamy +5

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has considerably advanced over the past decade. At the same time, state-of-the-art RL algorithms require a large computational budget in terms of t…