Quantum computing for high-energy physics: State of the art and challenges

A Di Meglio, K Jansen, I Tavernelli, C Alexandrou… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Quantum computers offer an intriguing path for a paradigmatic change of computing in the
natural sciences and beyond, with the potential for achieving a so-called quantum …

A review of barren plateaus in variational quantum computing

M Larocca, S Thanasilp, S Wang, K Sharma… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Variational quantum computing offers a flexible computational paradigm with applications in
diverse areas. However, a key obstacle to realizing their potential is the Barren Plateau (BP) …

Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability? Or, why we need to rethink variational quantum computing

M Cerezo, M Larocca, D García-Martín, NL Diaz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A large amount of effort has recently been put into understanding the barren plateau
phenomenon. In this perspective article, we face the increasingly loud elephant in the room …

Understanding quantum machine learning also requires rethinking generalization

E Gil-Fuster, J Eisert, C Bravo-Prieto - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum machine learning models have shown successful generalization performance
even when trained with few data. In this work, through systematic randomization …

Quantum convolutional neural networks are (effectively) classically simulable

P Bermejo, P Braccia, MS Rudolph, Z Holmes… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) are widely regarded as a promising
model for Quantum Machine Learning (QML). In this work we tie their heuristic success to …

On the sample complexity of quantum Boltzmann machine learning

L Coopmans, M Benedetti - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Quantum Boltzmann machines (QBMs) are machine-learning models for both
classical and quantum data. We give an operational definition of QBM learning in terms of …

Generalization of quantum machine learning models using quantum fisher information metric

T Haug, MS Kim - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Generalization is the ability of machine learning models to make accurate predictions on
new data by learning from training data. However, understanding generalization of quantum …

Variational quantum simulation: a case study for understanding warm starts

R Puig, M Drudis, S Thanasilp, Z Holmes - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.10044, 2024 - arxiv.org
The barren plateau phenomenon, characterized by loss gradients that vanish exponentially
with system size, poses a challenge to scaling variational quantum algorithms. Here we …

Symmetry-invariant quantum machine learning force fields

INM Le, O Kiss, J Schuhmacher, I Tavernelli… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Machine learning techniques are essential tools to compute efficient, yet accurate, force
fields for atomistic simulations. This approach has recently been extended to incorporate …

On fundamental aspects of quantum extreme learning machines

W **ong, G Facelli, M Sahebi, O Agnel… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Quantum Extreme Learning Machines (QELMs) have emerged as a promising framework for
quantum machine learning. Their appeal lies in the rich feature map induced by the …