Quantum Graph Attention Networks: Trainable Quantum Encoders for Inductive Graph Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11390v1
• Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:56:05 GMT
• Title: Quantum Graph Attention Networks: Trainable Quantum Encoders for Inductive Graph Learning
• Authors: Arthur M. Faria, Mehdi Djellabi, Igor O. Sokolov, Savvas Varsamopoulos,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Quantum Graph Attention Networks (QGATs) as trainable quantum encoders for inductive learning on graphs.<n>QGATs leverage parameterized quantum circuits to encode node features and neighborhood structures.<n>We evaluate our approach on the QM9 dataset, targeting the prediction of various chemical properties.
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• Abstract: We introduce Quantum Graph Attention Networks (QGATs) as trainable quantum encoders for inductive learning on graphs, extending the Quantum Graph Neural Networks (QGNN) framework. QGATs leverage parameterized quantum circuits to encode node features and neighborhood structures, with quantum attention mechanisms modulating the contribution of each neighbor via dynamically learned unitaries. This allows for expressive, locality-aware quantum representations that can generalize across unseen graph instances. We evaluate our approach on the QM9 dataset, targeting the prediction of various chemical properties. Our experiments compare classical and quantum graph neural networks-with and without attention layers-demonstrating that attention consistently improves performance in both paradigms. Notably, we observe that quantum attention yields increasing benefits as graph size grows, with QGATs significantly outperforming their non-attentive quantum counterparts on larger molecular graphs. Furthermore, for smaller graphs, QGATs achieve predictive accuracy comparable to classical GAT models, highlighting their viability as expressive quantum encoders. These results show the potential of quantum attention mechanisms to enhance the inductive capacity of QGNN in chemistry and beyond.

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