Hybrid Quantum-Classical Corrective Diffusion Modeling for Meteorological Downscaling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23403v1
• Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 09:14:25 GMT
• Title: Hybrid Quantum-Classical Corrective Diffusion Modeling for Meteorological Downscaling
• Abstract summary: We investigate a hybrid quantum-classical corrective diffusion model for probabilistic statistical downscaling of weather fields.<n>The proposed model inserts variational quantum circuit layers into the most compressed bottleneck of the diffusion UNet while leaving the regression branch fully classical.<n>On the 2020 validation set, the hybrid models remain stable, preserve the large-scale spatial organization of the generated wind fields, and improve both MAE and CRPS.
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• Abstract: Statistical downscaling is a crucial component of the weather modeling field, where high-resolution outputs must be reconstructed from coarse-resolution inputs with the full cost of dynamical refinement. In this work, we investigate a hybrid quantum-classical corrective diffusion model for probabilistic statistical downscaling of weather fields. The proposed model inserts variational quantum circuit layers into the most compressed bottleneck of the diffusion UNet while leaving the regression branch fully classical. This placement tests whether quantum circuits can act as compact nonlinear feature maps for latent-channel mixing. We evaluate intra-channel and cross-channel ansätze on 10m wind components. On the 2020 validation set, the hybrid models remain stable, preserve the large-scale spatial organization of the generated wind fields, and improve both MAE and CRPS relative to a classical corrective diffusion model in several configurations. Structural diagnostics further show that the hybrid variants preserve kinetic-energy spectra and windspeed distributions similar to its classical counterpart while producing controlled changes in tail behavior, extreme-windspeed localization, and joint wind field components structure. Backend studies on the 2020 validation set show negligible impact from simulated device noise at the tested circuit scale, whereas real-hardware deployment remains limited by qubit availability and execution fidelity. The 2021 out-of-distribution test shows that these in-distribution gains do not transfer uniformly under temporal shift, revealing a generalization gap that motivates future mitigation through stabilization and regularization. These results show that bottleneck-level quantum hybridization can make a nontrivial contribution to weather statistical downscaling, while also highlighting that circuit scale and hardware deployment remain key limiting factors.

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