QUIVER: Quantum-Informed Views for Enhanced Representations in Large ML Models
Abstract
Large machine learning models benefit substantially from multimodal inputs that provide a complementary view of the same example. We introduce QUIVER (QUantum Informed Views for Enhanced Representations), a paradigm that enriches classical data-driven features with a quantum Fisher view: a geometrically motivated, basis-independent summary of higher-order correlations captured by a variational quantum circuit (VQC) trained to perform the same task. Unlike classical feature augmentation, the quantum Fisher information matrix encodes the intrinsic geometry of the learned quantum state manifold, a quantum information-theoretic motivated feature map that is ordinarily non-trivial to model classically, surfacing statistical structure that additional classical data or model capacity finds difficult to learn. This makes the quantum Fisher view a genuinely complementary modality rather than a redundant one. We demonstrate that QUIVER improves standard performance metrics on two benchmark datasets from very different fields: the JetClass for predicting jet flavor at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and the QM9 dataset for predicting molecule properties. The core contribution, however, is domain-agnostic: the quantum Fisher view can be fused into a broad class of model architectures via targeted modifications to the base architecture, to incorporate information about the quantum geometry of the problem.