Robust Belief-State Policy Learning for Quantum Network Routing Under Decoherence and Time-Varying Conditions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08654v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:50:03 GMT
• Title: Robust Belief-State Policy Learning for Quantum Network Routing Under Decoherence and Time-Varying Conditions
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a framework for quantum network routing that combines belief-state planning with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)<n>Our approach encodes complex quantum network dynamics, including entanglement degradation and time-varying channel noise, into a low-dimensional feature space.<n> Experiments on simulated quantum networks with up to 100 nodes demonstrate significant improvements in routing fidelity and entanglement delivery rates.
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• Abstract: This paper presents a feature-based Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework for quantum network routing, combining belief-state planning with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to address partial observability, decoherence, and scalability challenges in dynamic quantum systems. Our approach encodes complex quantum network dynamics, including entanglement degradation and time-varying channel noise, into a low-dimensional feature space, enabling efficient belief updates and scalable policy learning. The core of our framework is a hybrid GNN-POMDP architecture that processes graph-structured representations of entangled links to learn routing policies, coupled with a noise-adaptive mechanism that fuses POMDP belief updates with GNN outputs for robust decision making. We provide a theoretical analysis establishing guarantees for belief convergence, policy improvement, and robustness to noise. Experiments on simulated quantum networks with up to 100 nodes demonstrate significant improvements in routing fidelity and entanglement delivery rates compared to state-of-the-art baselines, particularly under high decoherence and nonstationary conditions.

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