Late Breaking Results: Hardware-Efficient Quantum Reservoir Computing via Quantized Readout

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Main Authors: Pathak, Param, Od, Mansi, Innan, Nouhaila, Shafique, Muhammad
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Published: 2026
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author Pathak, Param
Od, Mansi
Innan, Nouhaila
Shafique, Muhammad
author_facet Pathak, Param
Od, Mansi
Innan, Nouhaila
Shafique, Muhammad
contents Due to rising electricity demand, accurate short-term load forecasting is increasingly important for grid stability and efficient energy management, particularly in resource-constrained edge settings. We present a hardware-efficient Quantum Reservoir Computing (QRC) framework based on a fixed, untrained quantum circuit with Chebyshev feature encoding, brickwork entanglement, and single- and two-qubit Pauli measurements, avoiding quantum backpropagation entirely. Using the Tetouan City Power Consumption dataset, we examine the effect of post-training fixed-point quantization on the classical readout layer, with the reservoir architecture selected through a genetic search over 18 candidate configurations. Under finite-shot evaluation, 8-bit and 6-bit quantization maintain forecasting accuracy within 1% of the FP32 baseline while reducing readout memory by 75% and 81%, respectively. These results suggest that quantized readout can improve the hardware efficiency and deployment practicality of QRC for memory-constrained energy forecasting.
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spellingShingle Late Breaking Results: Hardware-Efficient Quantum Reservoir Computing via Quantized Readout
Pathak, Param
Od, Mansi
Innan, Nouhaila
Shafique, Muhammad
Emerging Technologies
Quantum Physics
Due to rising electricity demand, accurate short-term load forecasting is increasingly important for grid stability and efficient energy management, particularly in resource-constrained edge settings. We present a hardware-efficient Quantum Reservoir Computing (QRC) framework based on a fixed, untrained quantum circuit with Chebyshev feature encoding, brickwork entanglement, and single- and two-qubit Pauli measurements, avoiding quantum backpropagation entirely. Using the Tetouan City Power Consumption dataset, we examine the effect of post-training fixed-point quantization on the classical readout layer, with the reservoir architecture selected through a genetic search over 18 candidate configurations. Under finite-shot evaluation, 8-bit and 6-bit quantization maintain forecasting accuracy within 1% of the FP32 baseline while reducing readout memory by 75% and 81%, respectively. These results suggest that quantized readout can improve the hardware efficiency and deployment practicality of QRC for memory-constrained energy forecasting.
title Late Breaking Results: Hardware-Efficient Quantum Reservoir Computing via Quantized Readout
topic Emerging Technologies
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06075