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Establishing Baselines for Photonic Quantum Machine Learning: Insights from an Open, Collaborative I

The Perceval Challenge is an open, reproducible benchmark designed to assess the potential of photonic quantum computing for machine learning. Focusing on a reduced and hardware-feasible version of the MNIST digit classification task or near-term photonic processors, it offers a concrete framework to evaluate how photonic quantum circuits learn and generalize from limited data. Conducted over more than three months, the challenge attracted 64 teams worldwide in its first phase. After an initial selection, 11 finalist teams were granted access to GPU resources for large-scale simulation and photonic hardware execution through cloud service. The results establish the first unified baseline of photonic machine-learning performance, revealing complementary strengths between variational, hardware-native, and hybrid approaches. This challenge also underscores the importance of open, reproducible experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration, highlighting how shared benchmarks can accelerate progress in quantum-enhanced learning. All implementations are publicly available in a single shared repository (https://github.com/Quandela/HybridAIQuantum-Challenge), supporting transparent benchmarking and cumulative research. Beyond this specific task, the Perceval Challenge illustrates how systematic, collaborative experimentation can map the current landscape of photonic quantum machine learning and pave the way toward hybrid, quantum-augmented AI workflows.

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doi:10.48550/arxiv.2510.25839

Establishing Baselines for Photonic Quantum Machine Learning: Insights from an Open, Collaborative Initiative

Cassandre Notton, Vassilis Apostolou, Agathe Senellart, Anthony Walsh, Daphne Wang, Yichen Xie, Songqinghao Yang, Ilyass Mejdoub, Oussama Zouhry, Kuan-Cheng Chen, Chen-Yu Liu, Ankit Sharma, Edara Yaswanth Balaji, Soham Prithviraj Pawar, Ludovic Le Frioux, Valentin Macheret, Antoine Radet, Valentin Deumier, Ashesh Kumar Gupta, Gabriele Intoccia, Dimitri Jordan Kenne, Chiara Marullo, Giovanni Massafra, Nicolas Reinaldet, Vincenzo Schiano Di Cola, Danylo Kolesnyk, Yelyzaveta Vodovozova, Rawad Mezher, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Alexia Salavrakos, Jean Senellart

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