6–11 December 2026 · Stellenbosch, South Africa
Programme
A day of tutorials, followed by five days of invited talks, contributed research and discussion at the 10th edition of QTML.
All times in SAST (UTC+2)
Sunday, 6 December 2026
11:00–17:00 SAST
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Tutorial
Dominik Hangleiter
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Lunch
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Tutorial
Alexander Schmidhuber
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Coffee break
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Tutorial
Jonas Helsen
Monday, 7 December 2026
08:00–18:30 SAST · 9 contributed talks
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Registration
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Welcome
Welcome session
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Invited talk
Maria Schuld
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Coffee break
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Contributed talks — Monday 1
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Quantum machine learning advantages beyond hardness of evaluation
Riccardo Molteni · Leiden University
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Efficient Learning of Structured Quantum Circuits via Pauli Dimensionality and Sparsity
Sabee Grewal · IBM Quantum, Columbia University
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Towards robust quantum advantage in sequence learning with a single reliable gate
Jonathan Lu · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Distributed Quantum Property Testing with Communication Constraints
Chirag Wadhwa · University of Edinburgh
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Provable and scalable quantum Gaussian processes for quantum learning
Jonas Jäger
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Lunch
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Invited talk
Richard Küng
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Contributed talks — Monday 2
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Covert Quantum Learning: Privately and Verifiably Learning from Quantum Data
Saachi Mutreja · Columbia University
Matthias C. Caro · Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick
Abhishek Anand · Caltech
Ari Karchmer · Morgan Stanley
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Cloning is as Hard as Learning for Stabilizer States
Matthias C. Caro · Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick
Gaurav Mahajan · Department of Computer Science, Yale University
Nikhil Bansal · Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick
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Coffee break
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Contributed talks — Monday 3
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Learning Arbitrary Lindbladians with Quantum Error Correction
Petr Ivashkov · ETH Zürich
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Learning scalable entanglement distribution policies
Christos Chalkias · Leiden University
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Posters
Poster session
Tuesday, 8 December 2026
08:00–18:40 SAST · 8 contributed talks
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Registration
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Invited talk
Ryan Babbush
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Contributed talks — Tuesday 1
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Decoded Quantum Interferometry is Obstructed by Topological Structure
Jonathan Lu · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eric Anschuetz · Caltech
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Canonical quantization of neurons
Mark Wilde · Cornell University
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Coffee break
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Contributed talks — Tuesday 2
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Complexity of Normalized Persistence Problems for Topological Data Analysis and Local Hamiltonians
Dominic Lowe
Ryu Hayakawa · Kyoto University
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Quantum principal component analysis without eigenvector recovery
Yewei Yuan · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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On the Query Complexity of Quantum Mean Estimation for Multivariate Heavy-Tailed Distributions
Bin Luo · The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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An unbounded quantum memory advantage for reinforcement learning world models
Josep Lumbreras · Nanyang Technological University
Hailan Ma · Nanyang Quantum Hub, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Centre for Quantum Technologies
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Representation theory for passive linear optics: anti-concentration, barren plateaus and classical simulability
Hela Mhiri
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Lunch
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Invited talk
Robin Kothari
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Contributed talks — Tuesday 3
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Private training in quantum machine learning
Tigran Sedrakyan · LIP6
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Coffee break
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Open session
Discussion on Generative AI
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Posters
Poster session
Wednesday, 9 December 2026
08:00–18:00 SAST · 13 contributed talks
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Registration
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Invited talk
Gorka Muñoz-Gil
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Contributed talks — Wednesday 1
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Quantum Convolutional Neural Network for Phase Recognition in Two Dimensions
Leon Sander · Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Automated near-term quantum algorithm discovery for molecular ground states
Konstantinos Meichanetzidis · Quantinuum
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Hybrid quantum-classical neural network for sample-efficient recognition of topological phases
Markus Hoffmann
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Coffee break
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Contributed talks — Wednesday 2
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Learning to Reconstruct Wigner Functions in Phase Space
Xinyu Tang · Shanghai Jiaotong University
Yi-hsin Faith Lin
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Harnessing imperfect quantum data through domain adaptation
Kosuke Ito · Toyota Motor Corporation
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One More Time: Revisiting Neural Quantum States from a Reinforcement Learning Perspective
Sergio García Heredia · aQa, LION, Leiden University
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Improved Quantum Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning Under a Generative Model
Joao F. Doriguello · HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
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Lunch
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Invited talk
Ben Jaderberg
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Contributed talks — Wednesday 3
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Machine-learned syndrome post-selection for reliable quantum error correction
Askery Canabarro · Technology Innovation Institute
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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Context-Aware Real-Time Error Suppression
Arthur Strauss · National University of Singapore
Lukas Voss · Ulm University
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Coffee break
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Contributed talks — Wednesday 4
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Feed-Forward-Free Logical Two-Qubit Randomized Benchmarking with Steane QEC and Residual Machine-Learning Decoders
Jan Balewski · NERSC/LBNL, USA
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AQER: A Scalable and Efficient Data Loader for Digital Quantum Computers
Kaining Zhang · Nanyang Technological University
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Breaking concentration barriers for quantum extreme learning on digital quantum processors
Timothée Dao · IBM Research Europe - Zurich
Francesco Tacchino · IBM Research Europe - Zurich
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Quantum Maximum Likelihood Prediction via Hilbert Space Embeddings
Nir Weinberger · Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Sreejith Sreekumar · L2S, CNRS, CentraleSupelec, University Paris-Saclay
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Open session
Industry session
Thursday, 10 December 2026
08:00–18:00 SAST · 13 contributed talks
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Registration
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Invited talk
Supanut Thanasilp
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Contributed talks — Thursday 1
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Fragmentation is Efficiently Learnable by Quantum Neural Networks
Mikhail Mints
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Training Variational Quantum Algorithms Is NP-hard, Even Locally
Triscia Mundo · Singapore University of Technology and Design
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Coffee break
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Contributed talks — Thursday 2
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Warm Starts, Cold States: Exploiting Adiabaticity for Variational Ground-States
Ricard Puig · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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Challenges in Barren Plateau Mitigation with Dynamic Parameterized Quantum Circuits
Sumeet Shirgure · University of Central Florida
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Lower bounding the MaxCut of high girth 3-regular graphs using the QAOA
Benjamin Villalonga · Google Quantum AI
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Reconciling Theory and Practice: Quadratic Acceleration of Variational Quantum Algorithms with Rotosolve
Sayantan Pramanik · TATA Consultancy Services, Indian Institute of Science
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QAOA-MaxCut has barren plateaus for almost all graphs
Pei Yuan · Tencent Quantum Lab
Rui Mao · School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Lunch
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Invited talk
Zoltán Zimborás
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Contributed talks — Thursday 3
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IQP Born Machines under Data-dependent and Agnostic Initializations
Suppanut Thanasilp · Chulalongkorn University
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Classically trainable quantum generative modeling with Boson and Fermion Sampling
Zoltán Kolarovszki · HUN-REN WIgner Research Centre for Physics
Zoltán Zimborás · University of Helsinki
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Coffee break
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Contributed talks — Thursday 4
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Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial Circuit Born Machines: Trainability, Non-Simulability, Expressivity and Applications
Kevin Shen
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Classically trained, quantum-deployed generative models: universality and kernel-adaptive training
Andrii Kurkin · Leiden Universiteit
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Spectral Born machines: Classically trainable quantum generative models for discrete data
Joseph Bowles · Xanadu
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Quantum thermodynamics and semidefinite optimization: Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein frameworks
Michele Minervini · Cornell University
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Open session
QTML Session
Friday, 11 December 2026
08:00–15:30 SAST · 14 contributed talks
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Registration
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Contributed talks — Friday 1
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Hamiltonian learning via quantum Zeno effect
Egle Pagliaro · ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences
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Reversing Unknown Hamiltonian Evolutions through Algebraic Structure
Erdong Huang · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Mingrui Jing · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Jizhe Lai · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
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Imposing Constraints on Driver Hamiltonians and Mixing Operators: From Theory to Practical Implementation
Hannes Leipold · Fujitsu Research of America
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Learning k-body Hamiltonians via sublinear-time sparse recovery
Franz J. Schreiber · Freie Universität Berlin
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Coffee break
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Contributed talks — Friday 2
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Nearly Time-Optimal Pure State Tomography with Pauli Measurements
Sabee Grewal · IBM Quantum, Columbia University
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A hidden bottleneck in classical and quantum linear reservoir computing
Francesco Arzani · INRIA Paris, ENS-PSL
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Efficient Characterization of Coherent and Correlated Low-Degree Noise in Layers of Gates
Marianna Crupi · Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
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Measurements as a design principle for quantum reservoirs: enhancing and enabling online temporal learning
Giacomo Franceschetto · ICFO
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Kicked-Ising Online Quantum Reservoirs: Operating Regimes and Hardware Tests
Ahmet Ege Yilmaz
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Optimal randomized measurements for a family of non-linear quantum properties
Yifan Tang
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Lunch
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Contributed talks — Friday 3
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Temporal information processing on a 4,500-qubit quantum annealer
Antonio Sannia
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Sampling from Thermal Quantum States via Pauli Propagation
Michele Minervini · Cornell University
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Quantum simulation in the Heisenberg picture: Algorithms and Learning Separations
Shao Hen Chiew · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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Stochastic Pauli-Path Simulator for Large-Scale Quantum Optimization
Kaining Zhang · Nanyang Technological University
