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Hybrid QC+AI Architectures in Practice

Surveys application families in which quantum layers operate as targeted representational or decision-making components rather than total model replacements.

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Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2026

00:0001:11

Hybrid QC+AI Framing

Opens with the broad framing of quantum computing and AI as mutually enabling disciplines under hardware constraints.

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01:1103:35

Feature Bottlenecks and Representations

Emphasizes that the quantum role in practical models often sits at a compact, expressive bottleneck.

The video visually reinforces that representation density matters more than speculative end-to-end replacement.

03:3505:59

Systems and Physical Constraints

Returns to hardware and systems limitations, including resource bottlenecks and the need for disciplined orchestration.

It ties model design back to what the hardware can sustain physically and operationally.

05:5908:23

Hybrid Applications

Surveys application stories in optimization and hybrid learning with an emphasis on workable interfaces between classical and quantum components.

The strongest message is that useful workflows are hybrid by construction.

08:2309:35

Roadmap and Future Direction

Ends on a roadmap of sustainable hybrid systems, including the resource and thermodynamic framing of quantum agents.

The closing emphasizes future systems design, not merely isolated algorithmic novelty.

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Key ideas

What this lesson teaches

  • The most credible pattern is to place the quantum circuit at a narrow, expressive bottleneck.
  • Healthcare and scientific-vision examples show how quantum kernels and variational layers can be embedded inside classical pipelines.
  • Operational realism comes from identifying exactly what the quantum subroutine is supposed to improve.

Key notes

  • QC-DQN is a hybrid clinical-control example, not a claim that quantum RL broadly supersedes classical RL.
  • QUEN, QViT, and quantum-classical GNNs all preserve substantial classical structure around the quantum part.

Formulas and diagrams to emphasize

  • Bellman-style value updates for reinforcement learning, interpreted in a hybrid QC-DQN setting.
  • Kernel similarity as a fidelity-style overlap between encoded quantum states.

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Quantum Vision Transformers in High-Energy Physics

Ali, Chicano, and Moraglio (Eds.), QC+AI 2025 Proceedings

The impending operations of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will generate data volumes that threaten to overwhelmingly saturate classical computational frameworks.1 The classification of quark-initiated versus gluon-initiated jets is a high-dimensional, highly overlapping image classification problem that is absolutely critical for identifying fundamental particle interactions and guiding future experimental designs in quantum chromodynamics.1 To address this monumental data c

The impending operations of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will generate data volumes that threaten to overwhelmingly saturate classical computational frameworks.1 The classification of quark-initiated versus gluon-initiated jets is a high-dimensional, highly overlapping image classification problem that is absolutely critical for identifying fundamental particle interactions and guiding future experimental designs in quantum chromodynamics.1 To address this monumental data c

Quantum-Classical Graph Neural Networks for Particle Jet Tagging

Ali, Chicano, and Moraglio (Eds.), QC+AI 2025 Proceedings

Complementing the image-based grid approaches to high-energy physics, researchers Velmurugan, Forestano, Gleyzer, Kong, Matchev, and Matcheva model particle jets as unstructured point clouds using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs).1 GNNs are uniquely suited for the sparse, irregular, and highly heterogeneous data produced at the Large Hadron Collider.1 However, recognizing that near-term NISQ devices cannot reliably simulate quantum graphs whose node count scales dynamically with large datasets, the

Complementing the image-based grid approaches to high-energy physics, researchers Velmurugan, Forestano, Gleyzer, Kong, Matchev, and Matcheva model particle jets as unstructured point clouds using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs).1 GNNs are uniquely suited for the sparse, irregular, and highly heterogeneous data produced at the Large Hadron Collider.1 However, recognizing that near-term NISQ devices cannot reliably simulate quantum graphs whose node count scales dynamically with large datasets, the

Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning

Ali, Chicano, and Moraglio (Eds.), QC+AI 2025 Proceedings

In classical machine learning, diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks by learning to systematically reverse a noise-addition process.1 However, their quantum counterparts (QDMs) are historically restricted by hardware noise and the immense computational overhead of simulating complex Hilbert spaces

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  • documentAli, Chicano, and Moraglio (Eds.), QC+AI 2026 Proceedings
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  • videoQuantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2026

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