arxivquant-phcs.LG2026-06-29
Staged Hybridisation for Visual Quantum Reinforcement Learning via Knowledge Distillation
Javier Lazaro, Juan-Ignacio Vazquez, Pablo Garcia-Bringas
Visual environments are a demanding setting for quantum reinforcement learning (QRL): high-dimensional observations, unstable RL optimisation, and constrained variational quantum circuits (VQCs) are difficult to train jointly. This paper studies knowledge distillation (KD) as a s…