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The Virtuous Cycle of Quantum-Classical Machine Learning

Nenad Tomašev, Jarrod R. McClean, Johannes Bausch·July 12, 2026
Quantum Physics

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Abstract

Artificial intelligence and quantum computing have both seen tremendous progress in recent years, opening up new avenues for accelerating scientific discovery. Classical machine learning has already proven to be useful for addressing challenges in quantum computation; and hardware progress is well underway towards the early fault-tolerant regime. On the other hand, the emerging field of quantum machine learning is aimed at utilizing the strengths of both computational paradigms, via the development of learning algorithms or models that benefit from running on quantum devices or from training on quantum data. We therefore argue that both of these paradigms stand to benefit substantially from each other. Here we review the most salient opportunities for machine learning in quantum computing, hoping to inspire a virtuous cycle through which both fields can mutually benefit.

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