Enhancing the Scalability of Classical Surrogates for Real-World Quantum Machine Learning Applications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06131v1
• Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:51:01 GMT
• Title: Enhancing the Scalability of Classical Surrogates for Real-World Quantum Machine Learning Applications
• Authors: Philip Anton Hernicht, Alona Sakhnenko, Corey O'Meara, Giorgio Cortiana, Jeanette Miriam Lorenz,
• Abstract summary: Quantum machine learning (QML) presents potential for early industrial adoption, yet limited access to quantum hardware remains a significant bottleneck for deployment of QML solutions.<n>This work explores the use of classical surrogates to bypass this restriction, which is a technique that allows to build a lightweight classical representation of a quantum model.<n>We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on a real-world energy demand forecasting problem, conducting rigorous testing of performance and computation demand in both simulations and on quantum hardware.
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• Abstract: Quantum machine learning (QML) presents potential for early industrial adoption, yet limited access to quantum hardware remains a significant bottleneck for deployment of QML solutions. This work explores the use of classical surrogates to bypass this restriction, which is a technique that allows to build a lightweight classical representation of a (trained) quantum model, enabling to perform inference on entirely classical devices. We reveal prohibiting high computational demand associated with previously proposed methods for generating classical surrogates from quantum models, and propose an alternative pipeline enabling generation of classical surrogates at a larger scale than was previously possible. Previous methods required at least a high-performance computing (HPC) system for quantum models of below industrial scale (ca. 20 qubits), which raises questions about its practicality. We greatly minimize the redundancies of the previous approach, utilizing only a minute fraction of the resources previously needed. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on a real-world energy demand forecasting problem, conducting rigorous testing of performance and computation demand in both simulations and on quantum hardware. Our results indicate that our method achieves high accuracy on the testing dataset while its computational resource requirements scale linearly rather than exponentially. This work presents a lightweight approach to transform quantum solutions into classically deployable versions, facilitating faster integration of quantum technology in industrial settings. Furthermore, it can serve as a powerful research tool in search practical quantum advantage in an empirical setup.

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