AI RESEARCH

Multi-Mode Quantum Annealing for Variational Autoencoders with General Boltzmann Priors

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2604.00919v1 Announce Type: cross Variational autoencoders (VAEs) learn compact latent representations of complex data, but their generative capacity is fundamentally constrained by the choice of prior distribution over the latent space. Energy-based priors offer a principled way to move beyond factorized assumptions and capture structured interactions among latent variables, yet