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5 papers

quant-ph2026

Characterizing Trainability of Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial Circuit Born Machines

Kevin Shen, Susanne Pielawa, Vedran Dunjko +1

Instantaneous quantum polynomial quantum circuit Born machines (IQP-QCBMs) have been proposed as quantum generative models with a classically tractable training objective based on…

quant-ph2026

Weighted Approximate Quantum Natural Gradient for Variational Quantum Eigensolver

Chenyu Shi, Vedran Dunjko, Hao Wang

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most prominent algorithms using near-term quantum devices, designed to find the ground state of a Hamiltonian. In VQE, a cla…

quant-ph2026

Variational Quantum Generative Modeling by Sampling Expectation Values of Tunable Observables

Kevin Shen, Andrii Kurkin, Adrián Pérez-Salinas +3

Expectation Value Samplers (EVSs) are quantum generative models that can learn high-dimensional continuous distributions by measuring the expectation values of parameterized quantu…

quant-ph2025

Universality and kernel-adaptive training for classically trained, quantum-deployed generative models

Andrii Kurkin, Kevin Shen, Susanne Pielawa +2

The instantaneous quantum polynomial (IQP) quantum circuit Born machine (QCBM) has been proposed as a promising quantum generative model over bitstrings. Recent works have shown th…

quant-ph2025

Note on the Universality of Parameterized IQP Circuits with Hidden Units for Generating Probability Distributions

Andrii Kurkin, Kevin Shen, Susanne Pielawa +2

In a series of recent works, an interesting quantum generative model based on parameterized instantaneous polynomial quantum (IQP) circuits has emerged as they can be trained effic…