Quantum Attention by Overlap Interference: Predicting Classical and Many-Body Quantum Sequences

arXiv:2602.06699 · quant-ph, cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-02-06 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-02-06

Updated: 2026-09-24

Terminology

• Transformer — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Loss Function — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 4× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Trajectories — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ancillary Qubits — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Artificial Intelligence papers — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Perplexity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Post-Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Circuits — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Attention Is All You Need
• Quantum Vision Transformers
• Beyond Classical Attention: Quantum Attention for Scalable Computation
• GQHAN: A Grover-inspired Quantum Hard Attention Network
• GPT on a Quantum Computer
• Quantum Transformer: Accelerating model inference via quantum linear algebra
• Quixer: A Quantum Transformer Model
• Optical decoder learning for fiber communication at the quantum limit
• A learning theory for quantum photonic processors and beyond
• Non-Linear Transformations of Quantum Amplitudes: Exponential Improvement, Generalization, and Applications

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