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author Notton, Cassandre
Apostolou, Vassilis
Senellart, Agathe
Walsh, Anthony
Wang, Daphne
Xie, Yichen
Yang, Songqinghao
Mejdoub, Ilyass
Zouhry, Oussama
Chen, Kuan-Cheng
Liu, Chen-Yu
Sharma, Ankit
Balaji, Edara Yaswanth
Pawar, Soham Prithviraj
Frioux, Ludovic Le
Macheret, Valentin
Radet, Antoine
Deumier, Valentin
Gupta, Ashesh Kumar
Intoccia, Gabriele
Kenne, Dimitri Jordan
Marullo, Chiara
Massafra, Giovanni
Reinaldet, Nicolas
Di Cola, Vincenzo Schiano
Kolesnyk, Danylo
Vodovozova, Yelyzaveta
Mezher, Rawad
Emeriau, Pierre-Emmanuel
Salavrakos, Alexia
Senellart, Jean
author_facet Notton, Cassandre
Apostolou, Vassilis
Senellart, Agathe
Walsh, Anthony
Wang, Daphne
Xie, Yichen
Yang, Songqinghao
Mejdoub, Ilyass
Zouhry, Oussama
Chen, Kuan-Cheng
Liu, Chen-Yu
Sharma, Ankit
Balaji, Edara Yaswanth
Pawar, Soham Prithviraj
Frioux, Ludovic Le
Macheret, Valentin
Radet, Antoine
Deumier, Valentin
Gupta, Ashesh Kumar
Intoccia, Gabriele
Kenne, Dimitri Jordan
Marullo, Chiara
Massafra, Giovanni
Reinaldet, Nicolas
Di Cola, Vincenzo Schiano
Kolesnyk, Danylo
Vodovozova, Yelyzaveta
Mezher, Rawad
Emeriau, Pierre-Emmanuel
Salavrakos, Alexia
Senellart, Jean
contents The Perceval Challenge is an open, reproducible benchmark designed to assess the potential of photonic quantum computing for machine learning. Focusing on a reduced and hardware-feasible version of the MNIST digit classification task or near-term photonic processors, it offers a concrete framework to evaluate how photonic quantum circuits learn and generalize from limited data. Conducted over more than three months, the challenge attracted 64 teams worldwide in its first phase. After an initial selection, 11 finalist teams were granted access to GPU resources for large-scale simulation and photonic hardware execution through cloud service. The results establish the first unified baseline of photonic machine-learning performance, revealing complementary strengths between variational, hardware-native, and hybrid approaches. This challenge also underscores the importance of open, reproducible experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration, highlighting how shared benchmarks can accelerate progress in quantum-enhanced learning. All implementations are publicly available in a single shared repository (https://github.com/Quandela/HybridAIQuantum-Challenge), supporting transparent benchmarking and cumulative research. Beyond this specific task, the Perceval Challenge illustrates how systematic, collaborative experimentation can map the current landscape of photonic quantum machine learning and pave the way toward hybrid, quantum-augmented AI workflows.
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spellingShingle Establishing Baselines for Photonic Quantum Machine Learning: Insights from an Open, Collaborative Initiative
Notton, Cassandre
Apostolou, Vassilis
Senellart, Agathe
Walsh, Anthony
Wang, Daphne
Xie, Yichen
Yang, Songqinghao
Mejdoub, Ilyass
Zouhry, Oussama
Chen, Kuan-Cheng
Liu, Chen-Yu
Sharma, Ankit
Balaji, Edara Yaswanth
Pawar, Soham Prithviraj
Frioux, Ludovic Le
Macheret, Valentin
Radet, Antoine
Deumier, Valentin
Gupta, Ashesh Kumar
Intoccia, Gabriele
Kenne, Dimitri Jordan
Marullo, Chiara
Massafra, Giovanni
Reinaldet, Nicolas
Di Cola, Vincenzo Schiano
Kolesnyk, Danylo
Vodovozova, Yelyzaveta
Mezher, Rawad
Emeriau, Pierre-Emmanuel
Salavrakos, Alexia
Senellart, Jean
Quantum Physics
The Perceval Challenge is an open, reproducible benchmark designed to assess the potential of photonic quantum computing for machine learning. Focusing on a reduced and hardware-feasible version of the MNIST digit classification task or near-term photonic processors, it offers a concrete framework to evaluate how photonic quantum circuits learn and generalize from limited data. Conducted over more than three months, the challenge attracted 64 teams worldwide in its first phase. After an initial selection, 11 finalist teams were granted access to GPU resources for large-scale simulation and photonic hardware execution through cloud service. The results establish the first unified baseline of photonic machine-learning performance, revealing complementary strengths between variational, hardware-native, and hybrid approaches. This challenge also underscores the importance of open, reproducible experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration, highlighting how shared benchmarks can accelerate progress in quantum-enhanced learning. All implementations are publicly available in a single shared repository (https://github.com/Quandela/HybridAIQuantum-Challenge), supporting transparent benchmarking and cumulative research. Beyond this specific task, the Perceval Challenge illustrates how systematic, collaborative experimentation can map the current landscape of photonic quantum machine learning and pave the way toward hybrid, quantum-augmented AI workflows.
title Establishing Baselines for Photonic Quantum Machine Learning: Insights from an Open, Collaborative Initiative
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25839