3–6 Nov 2025
GSI
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Imaging goes Quantum - Quantum Machine Learning for Image Generation

3 Nov 2025, 19:45
3m
KBW Lecture Hall, GSI

KBW Lecture Hall, GSI

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Speaker

Kerstin Borras (DESY and RWTH Aachen University)

Description

Quantum generative models offer a promising approach for simulating complex phenomena in particle physics. The successful small prototype for calorimeter images with 8 qubits for 8 pixels is the Quantum Angle Generator (QAG), a variational quantum model trained with a Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) loss to generate images from the probabilistic outputs of quantum circuits for calorimeter showers at the High-Luminosity LHC. The QAG can adapt through learning to hardware-induced noise, yielding stable, high-quality outputs with a factor of 20 less parameters than a comparable hybrid GAN.
Two new approaches to scale up to a larger number of pixels have been developed. One approach uses linear combinations of observables per pixel and succeeds with 6 qubits to generate signals in 25 pixels. The second new approach employs adaptive quantum polynomial chaos expansion with a Hermite basis generator and achieves with 13 qubits to generate images with 4096 pixels.

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Author

Kerstin Borras (DESY and RWTH Aachen University)

Co-authors

Dirk Kruecker (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)) Dr Florian Rehm (CERN) Jamal Slim (CMS (CMS-Experiment)) Saverio Monaco (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches))

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