A scalable advantage in multi-photon quantum machine learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21951v1
• Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:20:21 GMT
• Title: A scalable advantage in multi-photon quantum machine learning
• Authors: Yong Wang, Zhenghao Yin, Tobias Haug, Ciro Pentangelo, Simone Piacentini, Andrea Crespi, Francesco Ceccarelli, Roberto Osellame, Philip Walther,
• Abstract summary: Photons are promising candidates for quantum information technology due to their high and long coherence time at room temperature.<n>Recent research has turned attention to performing quantum machine learning on photonic platforms.<n>Here, we establish both theoretically and experimentally a scalable advantage in quantum machine learning with multi-photon states.
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• Abstract: Photons are promising candidates for quantum information technology due to their high robustness and long coherence time at room temperature. Inspired by the prosperous development of photonic computing techniques, recent research has turned attention to performing quantum machine learning on photonic platforms. Although photons possess a high-dimensional quantum feature space suitable for computation, a general understanding of how to harness it for learning tasks remains blank. Here, we establish both theoretically and experimentally a scalable advantage in quantum machine learning with multi-photon states. Firstly, we prove that the learning capacity of linear optical circuits scales polynomially with the photon number, enabling generalization from smaller training datasets and yielding lower test loss values. Moreover, we experimentally corroborate these findings through unitary learning and metric learning tasks, by performing online training on a fully programmable photonic integrated platform. Our work highlights the potential of photonic quantum machine learning and paves the way for achieving quantum enhancement in practical machine learning applications.

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