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arxiv: 2604.14287 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-15 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI· quant-ph

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Quantum-inspired tensor networks in machine learning models

Guillermo Valverde , Igor Garc\'ia-Olaizola , Giannicola Scarpa , Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens
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keywords tensor networksmachine learningquantum many-body physicscomputational efficiencyexplainabilityprivacyneural network decomposition
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Tensor networks from quantum many-body physics can serve as efficient alternative architectures or decompositions within machine learning models.

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This review examines how tensor networks, developed to represent complex quantum states without exponential cost, are now being adapted for classical machine learning. The core idea rests on the observation that quantum entanglement patterns resemble the statistical correlations found in real-world data sets. The authors survey current uses of these networks as standalone models or as building blocks inside neural networks, then weigh reported gains in speed, interpretability, and data privacy against the practical obstacles that remain.

Core claim

Tensor networks mitigate the exponential complexity of many-body systems by capturing only the most relevant dependencies among particles; because quantum entanglement and classical statistical correlations share a formal similarity, the same compressed representations can be inserted into machine learning pipelines either as new learning architectures or as structured decompositions of neural-network layers, with the expectation of concrete advantages in computational efficiency, explainability, or privacy.

What carries the argument

Tensor networks as compressed representations of multiparticle quantum states that retain only the strongest dependencies among variables.

Load-bearing premise

The formal similarity between quantum entanglement and statistical correlations in ordinary data will produce measurable practical advantages once tensor networks are placed inside real machine-learning pipelines.

What would settle it

A side-by-side benchmark on standard image or text data sets in which tensor-network models show no reduction in training time, parameter count, or improvement in interpretability compared with ordinary neural networks of similar accuracy would falsify the expected advantages.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.14287 by Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, Giannicola Scarpa, Guillermo Valverde, Igor Garc\'ia-Olaizola.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Penrose notation for a scalar, vector, matrix, and a order-3 tensor. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Tensor network example. The matrices B and C, the order-3 tensor D, and the order-5 tensor A are multiplied along the relevant dimensions (i.e., contracted) to produce the order-4 tensor T. follow Einstein’s notation (Einstein, 1916) adding over repeated indices. 2.2 Tensor operations The first operation to consider is tensor reshaping, which consists of reorganizing the indices of a tensor without alterin… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Fundamental tensor network operations: (a) reshaping, (b) tensor contraction, (c) SVD de [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Gauge freedom and canonical forms: (a) inserting [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: A matrix product state of five sites. It is possible to give an MPS/TT representation of any tensor via a sequence of reshapings and singular value decompositions (see Fig. 3d). When cutting the singular values obtained this way to only χ of them, the ℓ2 error incurred corresponds to the sum of the singular values that have been left out (Verstraete and Cirac, 2006). Thus, the fidelity of a low-rank approx… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: A matrix product operator of five sites. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: PEPS lattice of size three. Unlike MPS, however, the exact contraction of general PEPS is computationally demanding (Schuch et al., 2007; Haferkamp et al., 2020; Scarpa et al., 2020), and their practical application, therefore, relies on approximate contraction schemes or renormalization-inspired methods (Cirac et al., 2021). In the context of machine learning, PEPS have been explored as supervised models … view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Tree tensor network with eight leaf nodes. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: MERA network. In contrast to TTNs, the disentanglers (blue rectangles) break short-range [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Graphical representations of common tensor decompositions. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Topic-author graph for the works analyzed. Green nodes correspond to topics, while pink [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_11.png] view at source ↗
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Tensor networks were developed in the context of many-body physics as compressed representations of multiparticle quantum states. These representations mitigate the exponential complexity of many-body systems by capturing only the most relevant dependencies. Due to the formal similarity between quantum entanglement and statistical correlations, tensor networks have recently been integrated in machine learning, operating both as alternative learning architectures and as decompositions of components of neural networks. The expectation is that the theoretical understanding of tensor networks developed within quantum many-body physics leads to novel methods that offer advantages in terms of computational efficiency, explainability, or privacy. Here we review the use of tensor networks in the context of machine learning, providing a critical assessment of the state of the art, the potential advantages, and the challenges that must be overcome.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reviews the application of tensor networks (developed in quantum many-body physics for compressing entangled states) to machine learning. It highlights the formal analogy between quantum entanglement and statistical correlations in classical data, surveys their use both as standalone ML architectures (e.g., MPS, TT, MERA) and as decompositions within neural networks, and provides a critical assessment of claimed advantages in computational efficiency, explainability, and privacy along with associated challenges.

Significance. If the critical assessment is balanced and identifies concrete conditions under which the quantum-inspired structures yield measurable gains, the review could help consolidate the subfield and reduce over-reliance on untested analogies. The explicit discussion of challenges is a strength, as is the synthesis of works across physics and ML; however, without new quantitative comparisons, its primary value lies in organizing existing literature rather than advancing novel claims.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central expectation that 'the theoretical understanding of tensor networks developed within quantum many-body physics leads to novel methods that offer advantages' rests on the entanglement-correlation analogy, yet the review does not appear to supply or reference explicit counter-examples or scaling analyses showing when this analogy fails (e.g., on dense random or high-dimensional tabular data lacking compressible low-rank structure). This weakens the critical assessment of potential advantages.
minor comments (2)
  1. The manuscript would benefit from a clearer taxonomy or table early on that maps specific tensor network types (MPS, TT, MERA, etc.) to the ML tasks where they have been applied, to improve readability for non-physicists.
  2. Some citations to foundational quantum TN papers could be added or updated to ensure the physics background section is fully self-contained.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive review and for identifying an opportunity to strengthen the critical assessment in the manuscript. We address the major comment below and will incorporate revisions to better highlight limitations of the entanglement-correlation analogy.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central expectation that 'the theoretical understanding of tensor networks developed within quantum many-body physics leads to novel methods that offer advantages' rests on the entanglement-correlation analogy, yet the review does not appear to supply or reference explicit counter-examples or scaling analyses showing when this analogy fails (e.g., on dense random or high-dimensional tabular data lacking compressible low-rank structure). This weakens the critical assessment of potential advantages.

    Authors: We agree that explicitly referencing cases where the analogy fails would improve the balance of the critical assessment. Although the manuscript already discusses challenges and limitations of tensor networks in machine learning (including data regimes without low-rank compressible structure) in the dedicated challenges section, we acknowledge that the abstract and introductory framing could more directly cite counter-examples. In the revised version, we will update the abstract to note that advantages are conditional on data structure and add references to relevant studies that provide scaling analyses or empirical demonstrations of underperformance on dense random data and high-dimensional tabular datasets lacking exploitable correlations. These additions draw from existing literature on tensor network limitations rather than new experiments, consistent with the review nature of the paper. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Review paper advances no derivations or quantitative predictions

full rationale

This is a survey paper that reviews existing applications of tensor networks to machine learning without presenting original derivations, new equations, fitted parameters, or quantitative predictions. The central claim is an expectation based on formal analogy between quantum entanglement and classical correlations, but no load-bearing step reduces by construction to its own inputs, self-citations, or fitted data. No equations or uniqueness theorems are invoked that could create circularity. The paper explicitly positions itself as providing a critical assessment of the state of the art rather than a self-contained theoretical derivation.

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This is a review paper; no new free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are introduced by the authors.

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