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Quantum reinforcement learning

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Keywords: quantum, circuits, circuit, reinforcement, reinforcement learning

Key facts. Quantum reinforcement learning: 130 papers on arXiv since 2024 (data through 14 Oct 2026). 9 of its 130 mapped papers (7%) cite “Curriculum reinforcement learning for quantum architecture search under hardware errors” (2024, arXiv 2402.03500). 2 new papers 30 Sep–14 Oct.

What’s new

30 Sep – 14 Oct 2026

2 new since 30 Sep

  1. Energy Saving in 5G and Beyond Networks: A Quantum Reinforcement Learning Approach
  2. Context-Aware Error Mitigation Orchestration for Hybrid Quantum Reinforcement Learning on NISQ Systems

Foundations

Most cited by papers here

  1. Curriculum reinforcement learning for quantum architecture search under hardware errors2024cited by 9 here
  2. Practical and efficient quantum circuit synthesis and transpiling with Reinforcement Learning2024cited by 8 here
  3. Quantum Advantage Actor-Critic for Reinforcement Learning2024cited by 6 here
  4. VQC-Based Reinforcement Learning with Data Re-uploading: Performance and Trainability2024cited by 5 here
  5. Reinforcement learning-assisted quantum architecture search for variational quantum algorithms2024cited by 5 here

Lineage

The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.

Each paper on the line cites the one before.

  1. 2024VQC-Based Reinforcement Learning with Data Re-uploading: Performance and Trainabilitycited by 5 here
  2. 2024Trainability issues in quantum policy gradientscited by 4 here
  3. 2024An Introduction to Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL)cited by 4 here
21 more it builds on, not in this chain
  1. 2024Quantum Advantage Actor-Critic for Reinforcement Learningcited by 6 here
  2. 2024A Reinforcement Learning Environment for Directed Quantum Circuit Synthesiscited by 4 here
  3. 2024Curriculum reinforcement learning for quantum architecture search under hardware errorscited by 9 here
  4. 2024Reinforcement learning-assisted quantum architecture search for variational quantum algorithmscited by 5 here
  5. 2024Hamiltonian-based Quantum Reinforcement Learning for Neural Combinatorial Optimizationcited by 2 here
  6. 2024Reinforcement learningcited by 6 here
  7. 2024A Study on Optimization Techniques for Variational Quantum Circuits in Reinforcement Learningcited by 3 here
  8. 2024Practical and efficient quantum circuit synthesis and transpiling with Reinforcement Learningcited by 8 here
  9. 2024Attention-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Qubit Allocation in Modular Quantum Architecturescited by 2 here
  10. 2024Gymnasium: A Standard Interface for Reinforcement Learning Environmentscited by 8 here
  11. 2024Quantum Machine Learning Architecture Search via Deep Reinforcement Learningcited by 2 here
  12. 2024Reinforcement Learning for Variational Quantum Circuits Designcited by 3 here
  13. 2024AlphaRouter: Quantum Circuit Routing with Reinforcement Learning and Tree Searchcited by 5 here
  14. 2024Prioritized Generative Replaycited by 2 here
  15. 2024Robustness and Generalization in Quantum Reinforcement Learning via Lipschitz Regularizationcited by 2 here
  16. 2024Reinforcement learning with learned gadgets to tackle hard quantum problems on real hardwarecited by 4 here
  17. 2024A quantum-classical reinforcement learning model to play Atari gamescited by 2 here
  18. 2024Quantum framework for Reinforcement Learning: Integrating Markov decision process, quantum arithmetic, and trajectory searchcited by 2 here
  19. 2025Benchmarking Quantum Reinforcement Learningcited by 4 here
  20. 2025Optimizing Quantum Circuits via ZX Diagrams using Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networkscited by 2 here
  21. 2026Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Technologycited by 4 here

The 24 most cited of 69.

Browse

30 of 130, ranked 6–35

  1. 6AlphaRouter: Quantum Circuit Routing with Reinforcement Learning and Tree Search20245
  2. 7Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Technology20264
  3. 8Benchmarking Quantum Reinforcement Learning20254
  4. 9A Reinforcement Learning Environment for Directed Quantum Circuit Synthesis20244
  5. 10Trainability issues in quantum policy gradients20244
  6. 11An Introduction to Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL)20244
  7. 12Reinforcement learning with learned gadgets to tackle hard quantum problems on real hardware20244
  8. 13A Study on Optimization Techniques for Variational Quantum Circuits in Reinforcement Learning20243
  9. 14Reinforcement Learning for Variational Quantum Circuits Design20243
  10. 15Optimizing Quantum Circuits via ZX Diagrams using Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks20252
All 30
  1. 16TensorRL-QAS: Reinforcement learning with tensor networks for improved quantum architecture search20252
  2. 17Quantum Reinforcement Learning by Adaptive Non-local Observables20252
  3. 18Dissecting Quantum Reinforcement Learning: A Systematic Evaluation of Key Components20252
  4. 19Hamiltonian-based Quantum Reinforcement Learning for Neural Combinatorial Optimization20242
  5. 20Attention-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Qubit Allocation in Modular Quantum Architectures20242
  6. 21Quantum Machine Learning Architecture Search via Deep Reinforcement Learning20242
  7. 22Robustness and Generalization in Quantum Reinforcement Learning via Lipschitz Regularization20242
  8. 23A quantum-classical reinforcement learning model to play Atari games20242
  9. 24Quantum framework for Reinforcement Learning: Integrating Markov decision process, quantum arithmetic, and trajectory search20242
  10. 25Replay-buffer engineering for noise-aware quantum circuit optimization20261
  11. 26Improving thermal state preparation of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with reinforcement learning on quantum hardware20251
  12. 27Accelerating Quantum Reinforcement Learning with a Quantum Natural Policy Gradient Based Approach20251
  13. 28Exploring Quantum Control Landscape and Solution Space Complexity through Dimensionality Reduction & Optimization Algorithms20251
  14. 29Quantum-Inspired Reinforcement Learning in the Presence of Epistemic Ambivalence20251
  15. 30Pauli Network Circuit Synthesis with Reinforcement Learning20251
  16. 31Quantum-Enhanced Hybrid Reinforcement Learning Framework for Dynamic Path Planning in Autonomous Systems20251
  17. 32Q-Policy: Quantum-Enhanced Policy Evaluation for Scalable Reinforcement Learning20251
  18. 33BenchRL-QAS: Benchmarking reinforcement learning algorithms for quantum architecture search20251
  19. 34A Bit of Freedom Goes a Long Way: Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning under a Generative Model20251
  20. 35Quantum-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Solutions for Last-Mile On-Demand Delivery20251