Entanglement is Half the Story: Post-Selection vs. Partial Traces

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Hauptverfasser: Jäger, Gustav J L, Bieniasz, Krzysztof, Plenio, Martin B, Rieser, Hans-Martin
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Jäger, Gustav J L
Bieniasz, Krzysztof
Plenio, Martin B
Rieser, Hans-Martin
author_facet Jäger, Gustav J L
Bieniasz, Krzysztof
Plenio, Martin B
Rieser, Hans-Martin
contents While tensor networks have their traditional application in simulating quantum systems, in the recent decade they have gathered interest as machine learning models. We combine the experience from both fields and derive how quantum constraints placed on a tensor network manifest a change in capabilities. To this end, we employ a method of inference of classical tensor networks on a quantum computer to define a hybrid architecture. This hybrid tensor network is a practical unified framework for it's classical and quantum tensor network edge cases. We identify post-selection as the important property on which this interpolation hinges. The amount of post-selection corresponds to the level to which quantum constraints are enforced on the tensor network. On this basis, we propose a new hyperparameter which controls the transition between the hybrid and the quantum tensor network. In the comparison of classical and quantum tensor networks it complements the bond dimension. Quantum machine learning is improved by using the hyperparameter to allocate the practically limited post-selection to the quantum model in a trainable manner.
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spellingShingle Entanglement is Half the Story: Post-Selection vs. Partial Traces
Jäger, Gustav J L
Bieniasz, Krzysztof
Plenio, Martin B
Rieser, Hans-Martin
Quantum Physics
Artificial Intelligence
While tensor networks have their traditional application in simulating quantum systems, in the recent decade they have gathered interest as machine learning models. We combine the experience from both fields and derive how quantum constraints placed on a tensor network manifest a change in capabilities. To this end, we employ a method of inference of classical tensor networks on a quantum computer to define a hybrid architecture. This hybrid tensor network is a practical unified framework for it's classical and quantum tensor network edge cases. We identify post-selection as the important property on which this interpolation hinges. The amount of post-selection corresponds to the level to which quantum constraints are enforced on the tensor network. On this basis, we propose a new hyperparameter which controls the transition between the hybrid and the quantum tensor network. In the comparison of classical and quantum tensor networks it complements the bond dimension. Quantum machine learning is improved by using the hyperparameter to allocate the practically limited post-selection to the quantum model in a trainable manner.
title Entanglement is Half the Story: Post-Selection vs. Partial Traces
topic Quantum Physics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02385