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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An Irreducible Quantum Advantage in Aligning World Models with Reality

World models provide digital simulacra of the true world, allowing agents to be trained and tested before costly real-world deployment. At each time step, they receive an action and generate an observation and reward matching the statistics of the true world. In complex environments where present outcomes depend on eve...

Josep Lumbreras, Hailan Ma, Jayne Thompson et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Evolving Hybrid Quantum-Classical Architectures for Image Classification

Hybrid quantum classical neural networks integrate parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) with established deep learning architectures, but their performance depends strongly on the choice of quantum circuit architecture, a choice that remains largely manual. Most existing approaches rely on hand-designed or fixed circu...

Devroop Kar, Daniel E. Krutz, Travis J. Desell · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Sequential Capacity of Quantum Processes with Finite Memory

How complex can the responses of a quantum device become as it runs longer with a fixed internal memory? We quantify this complexity through sequential response capacity: how many adaptive testing stages, each using a fresh run, can continue to separate possible processes by a prescribed gap in response probabilities....

Yi-Bin Wang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Learnt Attacks on Quantum Key Distribution under Channel Noise and Device Drift

Adaptive eavesdropping is posed here as a constrained Markov decision process in which the attacker selects one circuit per round while the noise level follows an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process and the abort condition is a budget over each block of rounds.

Marcel Mordarski, Benjamin I. Gräs, A. Shehata et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Classical Hardness of Learning Functions of Hamiltonians

Morohoshi, Nakayama, Manabe, and Mitarai proposed a physically motivated quantum machine learning problem in which the goal is to predict quantities of the form $\operatorname{Tr}[f(H)\rho]$ from classical descriptions of a Hamiltonian $H$ and a quantum state $\rho$, where $f$ is an unknown function. We call this probl...

Sota Hashimoto, Akinori Kawachi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Neural Fourier Surrogates for Data Reuploading Quantum Neural Networks

For quantum machine learning, the exact boundary between classical and quantum advantage is still poorly understood. Direct comparison between quantum neural networks (QNNs) and existing classical models, which encompass fundamentally different function classes, often fails to provide broader insight into the differenc...

Oliver Knitter, Jonathan Mei, Sang Hyub Kim et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Symmetry Discovery in Quantum Learning: Observable-Level and Task-Level Inference from Finite Measurements

Symmetry reduces the capacity of a quantum learning model, but the imposed group must match both the measured information and the label transformation. We establish a finite-measurement theory for inferring this group from candidate transformations. The central structural result identifies observable-invisible transfor...

Ze-Yu Chen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Context-Aware Error Mitigation Orchestration for Hybrid Quantum Reinforcement Learning on NISQ Systems

Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) integrates reinforcement learning with parameterized quantum circuits and is a promising approach to combinatorial optimization. On Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, however, decoherence, gate imperfections, and measurement errors reduce policy quality and make learni...

Bisma Majid, Shabir Ahmed Sofi, Mir Mohammad Yousuf · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Exponential quantum advantage in processing massive classical data

Broadly applicable quantum advantage, particularly in classical data processing and machine learning, has been a fundamental open problem. In this work, we prove that a small quantum computer of polylogarithmic size can perform large-scale classification and dimension reduction on massive classical data by processing s...

Haimeng Zhao, Alexander Zlokapa, Hartmut Neven et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Surprisingly High Redundancy in Electronic Structure Data Across Materials Explained by Low Intrinsic Dimensionality

Machine learning (ML) models for electronic structure typically rely on large datasets generated by computationally expensive Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations, as it is not known a priori which portions of the data are essential for accurate learning. Here, we reveal significant redundancies in electron...

Sazzad Hossain, Ponkrshnan Thiagarajan, Shashank Pathrudkar et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Information Thermodynamics of Agents: The Work Capacity of Channels with Memory

Predicting future observations plays a central role in machine learning, biology, economics, and many other fields. It lies at the heart of organizational principles such as the variational free energy principle and, based on the second law of thermodynamics, has even been shown to be necessary for reaching the fundame...

Lukas J. Fiderer, Paul C. Barth, Isaac D. Smith et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

A Width-Matched Comparison of Hybrid Quantum-Classical Self-Supervised Learning for Fingerprint Recognition

Fingerprint recognition is a widely deployed biometric, but supervised training requires large labeled enrollment sets. Self-supervised learning (SSL) removes this requirement, and hybrid quantum-classical models have been proposed to enrich the learned representations. Prior quantum SSL studies consider a single contr...

Maria S. Edwards, Kidwell Dlamini, Pin-An Lin et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 21, 2026

Solving a 31-year-old grand challenge in mathematics – the KLS conjecture

For decades, a fundamental question about the difficulty of computing in high-dimensional spaces has resisted proof. New research resolves this question, removing a major theoretical obstacle to understanding the efficiency of randomized algorithms used across science and computing. The Kannan–Lovász–Simonovits (KLS) conjecture was proposed in 1995. It asks whether, for a broad class of high-dimensional […] The post Solving a 31-year-old grand challenge in mathematics – the KLS conjecture appear…

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 15, 2026

AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate

A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 15, 2026

Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar

Zero-knowledge proofs can verify computing results without rerunning workloads or exposing sensitive data. Magnetar helps bring them into the mainstream with support for standard programming languages, major speed gains, and quantum-resistant security. The post Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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