When AI meets quantum information: A comprehensive review
For researchers in AI and quantum computing, this survey provides a comprehensive overview of the current state and future directions of their intersection.
This survey reviews the bidirectional interface between AI and quantum information, covering AI techniques for quantum systems (e.g., measurement extraction, algorithm discovery, hardware stabilization) and quantum-inspired advances for AI (e.g., algorithmic speedups, expressivity, trainability). It identifies cross-cutting challenges in reproducibility, scalability, hardware realism, and co-design.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum information (QI) are rapidly co-evolving. AI is becoming a practical tool for learning, designing, controlling, and verifying quantum systems, while QI offers new computational models, representational structures, and learning-theoretic questions for AI. This survey reviews the interface from both directions. In the AI for QI direction, we organize recent progress around the central tasks of extracting information from limited measurements, training and discovering quantum algorithms, stabilizing noisy hardware, automating experimental and programming workflows, and extending learning-based methods to sensing and networking. In the QI for AI direction, we examine how quantum computation and quantum-inspired structures affect learning through algorithmic speedups, expressivity, trainability, generalization, neural-network design, and tensor-network representations. We close by identifying cross-cutting challenges in reproducibility, scalability, hardware realism, and co-design, arguing that progress will depend on tighter integration of theory, experiment, and hybrid quantum--classical systems.