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Hauptverfasser: Di Bartolo, Rosario, Cimini, Valeria, Minati, Giorgio, Zia, Danilo, Innocenti, Luca, Lorenzo, Salvatore, Monaco, Gabriele Lo, Spagnolo, Nicolò, Giordani, Taira, Palma, G. Massimo, Paternostro, Mauro, Ferraro, Alessandro, Sciarrino, Fabio
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12441
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author Di Bartolo, Rosario
Cimini, Valeria
Minati, Giorgio
Zia, Danilo
Innocenti, Luca
Lorenzo, Salvatore
Monaco, Gabriele Lo
Spagnolo, Nicolò
Giordani, Taira
Palma, G. Massimo
Paternostro, Mauro
Ferraro, Alessandro
Sciarrino, Fabio
author_facet Di Bartolo, Rosario
Cimini, Valeria
Minati, Giorgio
Zia, Danilo
Innocenti, Luca
Lorenzo, Salvatore
Monaco, Gabriele Lo
Spagnolo, Nicolò
Giordani, Taira
Palma, G. Massimo
Paternostro, Mauro
Ferraro, Alessandro
Sciarrino, Fabio
contents Model-independent estimation of the properties of quantum states is a central challenge in quantum technologies, as experimental imperfections, drifts, and imprecise models of the actual quantum dynamics inevitably hinder accurate reconstructions. Here, we introduce a training strategy for photonic quantum extreme learning machines in which both the learning stage and the optimization of the measurement settings are performed entirely with classical light, while inference is carried out on genuinely quantum states. The protocol is based on the identity between the normalized output intensities following the evolution of coherent states through a linear optical reservoir, and the output statistics obtained with separable input quantum states. Building on this correspondence, we implemented a model-free, gradient-based optimization of the reservoir measurement projection directly on experimental data, without relying on a prior model of the device transformation. We experimentally show that the resulting classical-to-quantum transfer enables accurate reconstruction of single-qubit Pauli observables for previously unseen single-photon states, and extends to the estimation of a two-qubit entanglement witness for arbitrary bipartite states. Beyond demonstrating a qualitatively distinct form of out-of-distribution generalization across the classical-to-quantum boundary, our results identify a practical route to fast, adaptive, and resource-efficient training of photonic quantum learning devices.
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spellingShingle Efficient classical training of model-free quantum photonic reservoir
Di Bartolo, Rosario
Cimini, Valeria
Minati, Giorgio
Zia, Danilo
Innocenti, Luca
Lorenzo, Salvatore
Monaco, Gabriele Lo
Spagnolo, Nicolò
Giordani, Taira
Palma, G. Massimo
Paternostro, Mauro
Ferraro, Alessandro
Sciarrino, Fabio
Quantum Physics
Model-independent estimation of the properties of quantum states is a central challenge in quantum technologies, as experimental imperfections, drifts, and imprecise models of the actual quantum dynamics inevitably hinder accurate reconstructions. Here, we introduce a training strategy for photonic quantum extreme learning machines in which both the learning stage and the optimization of the measurement settings are performed entirely with classical light, while inference is carried out on genuinely quantum states. The protocol is based on the identity between the normalized output intensities following the evolution of coherent states through a linear optical reservoir, and the output statistics obtained with separable input quantum states. Building on this correspondence, we implemented a model-free, gradient-based optimization of the reservoir measurement projection directly on experimental data, without relying on a prior model of the device transformation. We experimentally show that the resulting classical-to-quantum transfer enables accurate reconstruction of single-qubit Pauli observables for previously unseen single-photon states, and extends to the estimation of a two-qubit entanglement witness for arbitrary bipartite states. Beyond demonstrating a qualitatively distinct form of out-of-distribution generalization across the classical-to-quantum boundary, our results identify a practical route to fast, adaptive, and resource-efficient training of photonic quantum learning devices.
title Efficient classical training of model-free quantum photonic reservoir
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12441