Neural Fourier Surrogates for Data Reuploading Quantum Neural Networks
A new arXiv preprint introduces neural Fourier surrogate models for data reuploading quantum neural networks. The work targets the problem that direct comparisons between QNNs and classical models often fail because the two approaches occupy fundamentally different function classes, leaving the quantum-classical advantage boundary in quantum machine learning poorly understood.
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If these surrogates can be fitted reliably from limited QNN samples, they could give practitioners a matched classical baseline for data reuploading circuits, making near-term quantum advantage claims in small QML tasks explicitly testable.
Data reuploading QNNs are already classically simulable at small scale; a Fourier surrogate in the same function class would make the comparison exact rather than anecdotal. The main precondition is that the surrogate generalizes well enough to detect when a QNN's outputs leave the classical function class, an empirical question that could be resolved within two years.
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