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arxiv: 2603.09789 · v2 · submitted 2026-03-10 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI· quant-ph

A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Framework for Financial Volatility Forecasting Based on Quantum Circuit Born Machines

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Hybrid LSTM-QCBM model outperforms classical LSTM in volatility forecasting while allowing full classical inference after training

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The paper proposes integrating a Long Short-Term Memory network with a Quantum Circuit Born Machine to forecast financial volatility from high-frequency market data. The QCBM serves as a learnable generative prior to capture complex distributions that guide the LSTM's predictions. By applying a stochastic Drop-Prior mechanism during training, the LSTM distills knowledge from the quantum component. This setup allows the model to achieve superior performance on metrics like MSE, RMSE, and QLIKE for SSE Composite and CSI 300 indices compared to a standard LSTM. The approach demonstrates quantum-assisted training that results in a classically efficient model at deployment time.

Core claim

By training an LSTM with a QCBM prior under stochastic Drop-Prior, the resulting model captures complex market distributions and outperforms pure classical LSTM forecasting, yet runs entirely classically at inference without loss of the gained accuracy.

What carries the argument

The stochastic Drop-Prior mechanism, which randomly drops the quantum prior during training to force the LSTM to internalize the distributional knowledge.

Load-bearing premise

That the QCBM successfully captures complex market distributions and that the stochastic Drop-Prior mechanism transfers this knowledge to the LSTM without substantial performance loss when the quantum module is removed at inference time.

What would settle it

Training the same LSTM architecture with a classical generative prior instead of QCBM and checking whether the accuracy advantage over standard LSTM disappears on the same SSE and CSI 300 datasets.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.09789 by Yixiong Chen.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Quantum Circuit Born Machine Structure adjacent qubit pairs through RXX gates, and finally applies another set of Rz and Rx rotation gates. The entire circuit repeats this layered structure L times, and finally measures all qubits to obtain a classical bit string. The parameters of the circuit, including the rotation angles θ and the RXX gate parameters ϕ, are trainable. By optimizing these parameters, the… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Schematic diagram of the LSTM-QCBM hybrid model architecture. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Comparison of RMSE convergence curves of the models on the test set. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Histogram comparison of the probability distributions generated by the QCBM at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Cumulative probability coverage of the Top- [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_5.png] view at source ↗
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Accurate financial volatility forecasting is crucial but challenged by the non-linear, highly correlated nature of market data. Recently, quantum computing has emerged as a promising paradigm for solving complex high-dimensional sampling problems. To harness this, we propose a novel hybrid framework combining the temporal representation power of classical neural networks with the distribution-learning capabilities of quantum models. Specifically, we integrate a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network with a Quantum Circuit Born Machine (QCBM). The LSTM extracts dynamic features, while the QCBM acts as a learnable generative prior modeling complex market distributions to guide forecasting. Evaluated on 5-minute high-frequency data from the SSE Composite and CSI 300 indices, our model significantly outperforms a classical LSTM baseline across MSE, RMSE, and QLIKE metrics. Furthermore, by introducing a stochastic ``Drop-Prior" mechanism during training, the LSTM implicitly distills structured information from the quantum prior. This establishes a pragmatic paradigm of ``quantum-assisted training with classical-efficient inference", whereby the model retains its quantum-enhanced accuracy even when the quantum module is entirely disabled during deployment. This demonstrates a practical pathway for leveraging quantum computing to enhance classical models without real-time quantum inference latency.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a hybrid LSTM-QCBM framework for financial volatility forecasting on 5-minute high-frequency data from the SSE Composite and CSI 300 indices. The QCBM serves as a learnable generative prior that models complex market distributions and guides the LSTM via a stochastic Drop-Prior mechanism during training; at inference the quantum module is removed entirely, yielding a classical model that retains the reported performance gains. The central empirical claim is that this architecture significantly outperforms a classical LSTM baseline on MSE, RMSE, and QLIKE.

Significance. If the performance gains can be shown to arise specifically from the quantum prior rather than generic hybrid-training effects, the work would supply a concrete, deployable template for quantum-assisted training of classical time-series models. The separation of quantum computation to the training phase only removes a major practical obstacle (real-time quantum latency) and could be transferred to other domains that benefit from generative priors, such as risk modeling or synthetic data generation.

major comments (3)
  1. Abstract and Results: the claim of significant outperformance on MSE, RMSE, and QLIKE is presented without error bars, number of independent runs, data-split protocol, or any statistical significance test, rendering the headline result impossible to evaluate from the supplied information.
  2. Experimental design (implicit in the workflow description): no ablation is reported that replaces the QCBM with a classical generative model (VAE, GMM, or flow) trained under the identical stochastic Drop-Prior schedule. Without this control it is impossible to determine whether the observed gains stem from quantum-specific distribution capture or from the mere presence of an auxiliary generative signal during training.
  3. Methods: the manuscript supplies no quantitative verification that the QCBM actually captures the target market distribution (e.g., MMD, Wasserstein distance, or held-out log-likelihood on returns). The premise that the quantum module “models complex market distributions” therefore remains an untested assumption rather than a demonstrated fact.
minor comments (2)
  1. The Drop-Prior mechanism is described only at a high level; a formal definition, pseudocode, or explicit loss term would improve reproducibility.
  2. Notation for the hybrid loss and the stochastic dropping probability is not introduced until the methods section; early use of these symbols in the abstract creates unnecessary ambiguity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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Thank you for the detailed review. We appreciate the opportunity to clarify and strengthen our manuscript. Below we provide point-by-point responses to the major comments.

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  1. Referee: Abstract and Results: the claim of significant outperformance on MSE, RMSE, and QLIKE is presented without error bars, number of independent runs, data-split protocol, or any statistical significance test, rendering the headline result impossible to evaluate from the supplied information.

    Authors: We fully agree with this observation. The original manuscript indeed omitted these statistical details. In the revised version, we will report results with standard deviations from at least 5 independent runs with different random seeds, explicitly describe the temporal data splitting protocol used to avoid look-ahead bias, and include p-values from appropriate statistical tests (e.g., Diebold-Mariano test for forecast accuracy) to substantiate the significance of the improvements. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Experimental design (implicit in the workflow description): no ablation is reported that replaces the QCBM with a classical generative model (VAE, GMM, or flow) trained under the identical stochastic Drop-Prior schedule. Without this control it is impossible to determine whether the observed gains stem from quantum-specific distribution capture or from the mere presence of an auxiliary generative signal during training.

    Authors: This is a valid concern. To address it, we will include an ablation study in the revised manuscript where we replace the QCBM with a classical Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) as the generative prior, trained under the same stochastic Drop-Prior mechanism. This will help isolate whether the performance gains are due to the quantum model's distribution learning capabilities or the hybrid training approach in general. We note that training more complex classical models like VAEs or normalizing flows with the exact same integration would require additional computational resources, but the GMM ablation should provide initial evidence. revision: partial

  3. Referee: Methods: the manuscript supplies no quantitative verification that the QCBM actually captures the target market distribution (e.g., MMD, Wasserstein distance, or held-out log-likelihood on returns). The premise that the quantum module “models complex market distributions” therefore remains an untested assumption rather than a demonstrated fact.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the manuscript lacks explicit quantitative evaluation of the QCBM's generative performance. We will add in the Methods and Results sections metrics such as the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) and Wasserstein-1 distance between samples generated by the trained QCBM and the empirical distribution of the financial returns. Additionally, we will report the log-likelihood on a held-out test set of returns to demonstrate that the QCBM effectively models the complex market distributions. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in derivation chain

full rationale

The paper presents an empirical hybrid framework combining LSTM with QCBM and a stochastic Drop-Prior training mechanism. No equations, derivations, or first-principles results are described that reduce a claimed prediction or performance metric to a fitted parameter or self-defined input by construction. The central claims rest on experimental comparisons (MSE/RMSE/QLIKE on SSE and CSI 300 data) rather than any tautological renaming, ansatz smuggling, or self-citation load-bearing step. The workflow is self-contained against external benchmarks and does not invoke uniqueness theorems or prior self-work to force the outcome.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract supplies insufficient technical detail to enumerate free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; standard LSTM and QCBM components are assumed but not specified.

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