arxivquant-phcs.LG2026-07-10
When Classical Baselines Are Tuned as Carefully as the Quantum Model, Does Quantum Reservoir Computing Still Win?
Can a small quantum computer forecast a changing signal better than an ordinary classical method? Many studies say yes, but the classical methods they compare against are often left in a basic, untuned state while the quantum model is carefully optimised. We ask what happens when…