Quantum Learning of Classical Correlations with continuous-domain Pauli Correlation Encoding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05637v1
• Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:39:46 GMT
• Title: Quantum Learning of Classical Correlations with continuous-domain Pauli Correlation Encoding
• Abstract summary: We introduce two quantum covariance estimators: the C-Estimator and the E-Estimator.<n>We analyze the trade-offs between the two estimators in terms of qubit requirements and learning complexity.<n>We show that the barren plateau phenomenon in training the variational quantum circuit for E-estimator can be mitigated.
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• Abstract: We propose a quantum machine learning framework for estimating classical covariance matrices using parameterized quantum circuits within the Pauli-Correlation-Encoding (PCE) paradigm. We introduce two quantum covariance estimators: the C-Estimator, which constructs the covariance matrix through a Cholesky factorization to enforce positive (semi)definiteness, and a computationally efficient E-Estimator, which directly estimates covariance entries from observable expectation values. We analyze the trade-offs between the two estimators in terms of qubit requirements and learning complexity, and derive sufficient conditions on regularization parameters to ensure positive (semi)definiteness of the estimators. Furthermore, we show that the barren plateau phenomenon in training the variational quantum circuit for E-estimator can be mitigated by appropriately choosing the regularization parameters in the loss function for HEA ansatz. The proposed framework is evaluated through numerical simulations using randomly generated covariance matrices. We examine the convergence behavior of the estimators, their sensitivity to low-rank assumptions, and their performance in covariance completion with partially observed matrices. The results indicate that the proposed estimators provide a robust approach for learning covariance matrices and offer a promising direction for applying quantum machine learning techniques to high-dimensional statistical estimation problems.

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