Learning and interpreting policies for simultaneous entanglement requests in quantum networks
An arXiv preprint proposes learning schedulers that allocate simultaneous entanglement requests across future quantum networks while reducing resource use and latency. The paper also develops methods to interpret the learned policies, making their decision-making more transparent. It targets scenarios including distributed quantum computing and quantum sensing operating concurrently in different network regions.
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Interpreted policies could be distilled into simple rule-based schedulers that run on near-term quantum network testbeds without continuous reinforcement-learning inference.
Policy distillation and interpretability techniques are already established in classical reinforcement learning. Small-scale quantum network testbeds, such as QuTech's demonstrator or the Illinois Express Quantum Network, are operational enough to validate distilled scheduling rules, and with few nodes the rule space is tractable.
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