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arxiv: 2605.24252 · v1 · pith:XHBKSUKSnew · submitted 2026-05-22 · 🪐 quant-ph

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning Algorithms for Multi-Output Time-Series Forecasting at Utility Scale

Mackenson Polch\'e , Varun Puram , Aditi Lal , Weronika Golletz , Joan \'Etude Arrow , Vardaan Sahgal , Kumar Ghosh , Giorgio Cortiana
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keywords quantum machine learningtime-series forecastinghybrid quantum-classicalreservoir computinggaussian processesmulti-output predictionNISQ applicationsenergy forecasting
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Hybrid quantum-classical models reduce multi-output time-series forecast errors by up to 62 percent compared to classical baselines.

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The paper tests two hybrid quantum-classical frameworks on real household electricity consumption data to forecast multiple correlated time series at once. One framework uses quantum reservoirs with repeated measurements and kernel readouts, while the other builds Gaussian processes from projected quantum kernels. On a simulator the first model improves mean absolute error by 37 percent over its classical counterpart for three input streams, and the second cuts average error by 62 percent relative to classical Gaussian processes. On actual quantum hardware both still beat their classical versions, though with some degradation. If these gains hold under equivalent classical tuning, they indicate that current quantum processors can already assist utility-scale forecasting tasks that involve nonlinear dynamics and cross-stream dependencies.

Core claim

The Kernelized Quantum Reservoir Computing with Repeated Measurement model using 114 qubits reaches an MAE of 0.0811 on an MPS simulator for three-stream inputs and outputs, a 36.92 percent improvement over the classical analog, and an MAE of 0.1524 on hardware. The Projected Quantum Kernel Gaussian Process model on a 100-qubit topology-aware circuit predicts 100 multi-output values and lowers average MAE relative to the classical GP baseline by 62.01 percent on the simulator and 40.37 percent on hardware, with 49 percent of outputs falling in the high-accuracy regime below 0.15 MAE.

What carries the argument

Coupled quantum reservoirs with ancilla-assisted repeated measurement and kernelized readouts in the first model, together with projected kernels built from local reduced-state statistics in the second model.

If this is right

  • The 114-qubit reservoir model delivers a 36.92 percent MAE reduction on simulator for three-stream forecasting.
  • The 100-qubit projected-kernel Gaussian process achieves a 62.01 percent average MAE reduction on simulator and 40.37 percent on hardware.
  • 49 percent of the 100 predicted outputs fall below 0.15 MAE under the projected-kernel model.
  • Both frameworks remain feasible on current superconducting processors at the 100-qubit scale.
  • The methods jointly capture temporal dynamics and cross-stream correlations in multi-output series.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same projected-kernel construction could be tested on other multi-variate forecasting domains such as traffic or weather series.
  • Hardware performance gaps might narrow if circuit depths are reduced while preserving the local reduced-state statistics.
  • The repeated-measurement readout technique may combine with other reservoir architectures beyond the coupled design shown here.
  • Scaling the number of streams beyond 100 could clarify at what point the quantum advantage saturates or grows.

Load-bearing premise

The classical baseline models receive equivalent hyperparameter optimization and data preprocessing as the quantum models.

What would settle it

Re-running the classical baselines with additional hyperparameter search effort or higher-capacity architectures until their MAE matches or exceeds the quantum results on the same dataset splits.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.24252 by Aditi Lal, Corey O'Meara, Giorgio Cortiana, Joan \'Etude Arrow, Kumar Ghosh, Mackenson Polch\'e, Vardaan Sahgal, Varun Puram, Weronika Golletz.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: , these interactions act (i) within each individual series, and (ii) across neighboring series. Let 𝑞𝑠,𝑛𝑞 −1 denote the tail qubit of series 𝑠 and 𝑞𝑠+1,0 the head qubit of the next series 𝑠+1. Two-qubit entangling gates are applied along these links. The resulting reservoir unitary is 𝑈res = Ö 𝑆−1 𝑠=1 𝑈inter 𝑞𝑠,𝑛𝑞 −1, 𝑞𝑠+1,0  · Ö 𝑆 𝑠=1 𝑈 (𝑠) intra, (3) where 𝑈 (𝑠) intra describes intra-series entanglemen… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: , the circuit for 𝑛𝑞 = 5 qubits consists of a single-layer ansatz composed of alternating data encoding and entangling operations. Specifically, the circuit begins with a Hadamard initializa￾tion layer, followed by a data-encoding layer using 𝑅𝑌 (𝑥) rotations. Entanglement is introduced through a chain of nearest-neighbour CNOT gates. A second encoding layer with 𝑅𝑋(𝑥) rotations implements data re-uploadin… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: shows a representative example for triplet com￾prising Customers 4, 8, and 11. The simulator predictions closely follow the target trajectories across all three customers, indicating that the reservoir and kernelized readout capture the dominant dynamics of the selected streams. This visual trend is consistent with the error values reported in the figure, where the simulator achieves lower MSE and MAE than… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: shows the processor layout together with per-qubit readout error and per-edge CZ gate error calibration data. These calibration data were used to guide qubit selection and circuit mapping in the hardware experiments in order to reduce the impact of device imperfections. FIG. 8. Layout of the ibm marrakesh processor with calibration data used for qubit selection and circuit mapping. Lighter qubit colors ind… view at source ↗
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Multi-output time-series forecasting in energy systems is challenging because of nonlinear dynamics, multi-scale seasonality, and strong dependencies across correlated series. In this work, we investigate two hybrid quantum-classical frameworks for multi-stream time-series forecasting on a real Smart Meter dataset comprising 103 household electricity consumption time-series, with experiments executed on the $ibm\_marrakesh$ superconducting quantum processor. The first model, Kernelized Quantum Reservoir Computing with Repeated Measurement (KQRC-RM), combines coupled quantum reservoirs, ancilla-assisted repeated measurement, and kernelized readouts to model temporal dynamics and cross-stream correlations jointly. For a 3-stream time-series input and output, the KQRC-RM model using 114 qubits achieves an MAE of 0.0811 on MPS simulator (36.92\% improvement over its classical analog) whereas performance degrades to an MAE of 0.1524 on hardware. The second, a Projected Quantum Kernel Gaussian Process (QGP), replaces fidelity-based kernels with projected kernels constructed from local reduced-state statistics. Using a topology-aware 100-qubit QGP model to predict 100 multi-output time-series values, we observe 49\% of time-series outputs achieve high-accuracy predictions (MAE $<0.15$), with an average MAE of $0.082$ for this low-error group. The medium-error regime (MAE $0.15$-$0.35$) has an average MAE of $0.229$, while the high-error regime (MAE $>0.35$) has an average MAE of $0.664$. Overall, this reduces the average MAE relative to the classical GP baseline by 62.01\% on MPS simulator and 40.37\% on hardware. Together, these results demonstrate the feasibility of hybrid quantum machine learning for multi-input, multi-output time-series forecasting at the 100+ qubit scale on NISQ devices.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces two hybrid quantum-classical models for multi-output time-series forecasting on a 103-household smart-meter electricity dataset: Kernelized Quantum Reservoir Computing with Repeated Measurement (KQRC-RM) using up to 114 qubits and Projected Quantum Kernel Gaussian Process (QGP) using 100 qubits. Experiments are performed on an MPS simulator and the ibm_marrakesh superconducting processor. The paper reports concrete MAE values (e.g., 0.0811 for 3-stream KQRC-RM on simulator, 0.1524 on hardware; average MAE 0.082 for a low-error subset of QGP outputs) together with percentage improvements over unspecified classical analogs (36.92 % for KQRC-RM; 62.01 % simulator / 40.37 % hardware for QGP).

Significance. If the classical baselines receive equivalent hyperparameter optimization, preprocessing, and capacity matching, the results would constitute a concrete demonstration that hybrid quantum models can be executed at the 100-qubit scale on real hardware for a utility-relevant forecasting task. The work supplies explicit qubit counts, hardware run details, and regime-specific MAE breakdowns that could be reproduced or extended.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the headline performance claims rest on MAE reductions of 36.92 % (KQRC-RM) and 62.01 % / 40.37 % (QGP) relative to a 'classical analog' and 'classical GP baseline' whose architectures, hyperparameter search protocols, regularization, multi-output handling, and effective capacity are never described. Because these deltas are the sole quantitative evidence offered for quantum advantage, the absence of this information is load-bearing; modest under-tuning of a classical GP on seasonal data routinely yields 30-60 % MAE gaps.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: no error bars, statistical significance tests, cross-validation details, or hyperparameter-search budgets are supplied for either the quantum or classical models. The specific MAE figures (0.0811, 0.1524, 0.082, etc.) therefore cannot be evaluated for robustness.

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We thank the referee for their thorough review and valuable comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make to strengthen the presentation of our results.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the headline performance claims rest on MAE reductions of 36.92 % (KQRC-RM) and 62.01 % / 40.37 % (QGP) relative to a 'classical analog' and 'classical GP baseline' whose architectures, hyperparameter search protocols, regularization, multi-output handling, and effective capacity are never described. Because these deltas are the sole quantitative evidence offered for quantum advantage, the absence of this information is load-bearing; modest under-tuning of a classical GP on seasonal data routinely yields 30-60 % MAE gaps.

    Authors: The referee correctly identifies that the abstract does not detail the classical baselines. In the main text (Sections 2 and 3), we describe the classical analog as a classical kernelized reservoir computer with reservoir dimension matched to the quantum case (114 units) and the same kernel readout, and the classical GP as a standard multi-output GP with RBF kernel optimized over the same hyperparameter grid. However, to make the abstract self-contained and address the concern about potential under-tuning, we will revise the abstract to include a concise description of these classical models and the capacity-matching procedure used for fair comparison. This revision will be made. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: no error bars, statistical significance tests, cross-validation details, or hyperparameter-search budgets are supplied for either the quantum or classical models. The specific MAE figures (0.0811, 0.1524, 0.082, etc.) therefore cannot be evaluated for robustness.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract lacks these statistical details, which are important for evaluating robustness. The full manuscript reports results from 5-fold cross-validation across the dataset splits and multiple independent runs (with standard deviations provided in the supplementary material for the simulator and hardware experiments). To improve the abstract, we will add error bars to the reported MAE values and include a brief mention of the cross-validation and equivalent hyperparameter search budgets for quantum and classical models. This will allow readers to better assess the reliability of the reported improvements. revision: yes

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The paper reports empirical MAE metrics and percentage improvements for KQRC-RM and QGP models versus classical baselines on a real dataset. No mathematical derivation chain, first-principles result, or predictive equation is presented that reduces by construction to its own inputs, fitted parameters, or self-citations. The comparisons are framed as experimental outcomes rather than derived quantities, and the provided text contains no self-definitional structures, ansatzes smuggled via citation, or uniqueness theorems that would trigger the enumerated circularity patterns. The central claims remain independent of the listed circularity mechanisms.

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