[GSoC 2026] QMLHEP7: Add Quantum Attention baseline & repository maintenance

EQNN_Cosmos_Dong/Notebooks/EQNN_SO(2).ipynb

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+   "id": "1770905f",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# Install dependencies for Google Colab/Codespaces\n",
+    "import sys\n",
+    "if 'google.colab' in sys.modules or 'vscode' in sys.modules:\n",
+    "    !pip install -q jax flax pennylane optax"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 1,

EQNN_Cosmos_Dong/Notebooks/EQNN_discrete.ipynb

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+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "67f284cb",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# Install dependencies for Google Colab/Codespaces\n",
+    "import sys\n",
+    "if 'google.colab' in sys.modules or 'vscode' in sys.modules:\n",
+    "    !pip install -q jax flax pennylane optax"
+   ]
+  },
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EQNN_Cosmos_Dong/Notebooks/EQNN_discrete_Asymm.ipynb

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+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "82916fe9",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# Install dependencies for Google Colab/Codespaces\n",
+    "import sys\n",
+    "if 'google.colab' in sys.modules or 'vscode' in sys.modules:\n",
+    "    !pip install -q jax flax pennylane optax"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 1,

EQNN_Cosmos_Dong/Notebooks/SU(2)_trainable.ipynb

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+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# Install dependencies for Google Colab/Codespaces\n",
+    "import sys\n",
+    "if 'google.colab' in sys.modules or 'vscode' in sys.modules:\n",
+    "    !pip install -q jax flax pennylane optax"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 1,

EQNN_Cosmos_Dong/Notebooks/SU(2)_untrainable.ipynb

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+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "577a81df",
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+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# Install dependencies for Google Colab/Codespaces\n",
+    "import sys\n",
+    "if 'google.colab' in sys.modules or 'vscode' in sys.modules:\n",
+    "    !pip install -q jax flax pennylane optax"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 1,

EQNN_Cosmos_Dong/requirements.txt

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+jax>=0.9.0.1
+flax>=0.12.4
+pennylane>=0.44.0
+optax>=0.1.0

Quantum_AE_for_HEP_Tom_Magorsch/dev_notebooks/Electron-Photon/README.md

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+# Quantum & Classical Autoencoders for Electron-Photon Classification
+
+This folder contains a collection of notebooks exploring **autoencoder architectures** (both classical and quantum-enhanced) for distinguishing electrons from photons in high-energy physics calorimeter data.
+
+## Physics Objective
+
+Electron-Photon discrimination is a critical classification task in particle physics. Both particles leave similar electromagnetic (EM) signatures in calorimeters, making their separation challenging. This folder explores how classical autoencoders (CAE, VAE) and quantum-enhanced autoencoders (QAE, SQAE) can learn discriminative representations of calorimeter shower patterns for robust electron-photon tagging.
+
+## Dataset
+
+- **LHC Electron-Photon Dataset**: Calorimeter images from simulated electron and photon events.
+- **File Format**: HDF5 (.hdf5) containing EM calorimeter shower images (X) and binary labels (y: 0=photon, 1=electron).
+- **Typical Shapes**: Multi-thousand samples of 2D/3D calorimeter energy deposits.
+
+## Notebooks Overview
+
+### Classical Baselines
+- **Electron-Photon_CAE_fulldata.ipynb**: Convolutional AutoEncoder for full dataset feature learning.
+- **Electron-Photon_CAE_keras_tuner.ipynb**: Hyperparameter-tuned CAE using Keras Tuner.
+- **Electron-Photon_VAE_fulldata.ipynb**: Variational AutoEncoder for probabilistic shower representation.
+
+### Quantum-Enhanced Models
+- **Electron-Photon_QAE.ipynb**: Quantum AutoEncoder with quantum latent space.
+- **Electron-Photon_QAE_fulldata.ipynb**: Full-dataset variant of QAE.
+- **Electron-Photon_SQAE.ipynb**: Single-qubit Quantum AutoEncoder.
+- **Electron-Photon_SQAE_fulldata.ipynb**: Full-dataset training variant.
+
+### Data Utilities
+- **EMD_experiment.ipynb**: Earth Mover Distance (EMD) analysis of shower patternsfor model comparison.
+
+### Advanced Models
+- **gammaetune/**: Hyperparameter optimization workflows for gamma/electron discrimination.
+
+## Key Results
+
+- Classical autoencoders (CAE/VAE) achieve competitive classification metrics on EM calorimeter data.
+- Quantum autoencoders show promise in learning compressed shower representations.
+- Full-data training variants improve generalization compared to subset-trained models.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+Install via the parent directory's `requirements.txt`:
+
+```bash
+pip install -r ../requirements.txt
+```
+
+Key packages:
+- `tensorflow` / `tensorflow-quantum`
+- `pennylane` for quantum circuits
+- `h5py` for data loading
+- `scikit-learn` for preprocessing
+- `keras-tuner` for hyperparameter optimization
+
+## Usage
+
+1. **Download data**: Place HDF5 files (`electron.hdf5`, `photon.hdf5`) in `../../data/` (adjust paths as needed).
+2. **Run a notebook**: Open any `.ipynb` file in Jupyter and execute cells from top to bottom.
+3. **Compare models**: Each architecture can be independently evaluated; check training curves and ROC/AUC metrics.
+
+## Future Directions
+
+- Scale to full calorimeter geometries (e.g., 100×100 pixel grids).
+- Implement quantum error mitigation for accurate circuit simulation.
+- Explore attention-based variants (ViT-style) for multi-scale feature learning.
+- Extend to JAX/Flax for improved computational efficiency.
+
+---
+
+**Contributing**: This folder is part of the ML4SCI/QMLHEP initiative to advance quantum machine learning in high-energy physics research.

Quantum_AE_for_HEP_Tom_Magorsch/dev_notebooks/MNIST/README.md

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+# Quantum & Classical Autoencoders on MNIST
+
+This folder contains a comprehensive benchmark suite of **autoencoder architectures** (both classical and quantum-enhanced) evaluated on the MNIST handwritten digit dataset.
+
+## Objective
+
+The MNIST dataset serves as a **controlled benchmark** for developing and validating autoencoder designs before applying them to high-energy physics data. This folder explores how quantum autoencoders compare to classical baselines in terms of compression efficiency, reconstruction fidelity, and trainability on a well-understood task.
+
+## Dataset
+
+- **MNIST**: 28×28 grayscale images of handwritten digits (0–9).
+- **Source**: Built-in TensorFlow/Keras dataset.
+- **Typical Shapes**: 60k training samples, 10k test samples, normalized to [0, 1].
+
+## Notebooks Overview
+
+### Classical Baselines
+- **MNIST_CAE.ipynb**: Standard Convolutional AutoEncoder for image compression.
+- **MNIST_convolutional_CAE.ipynb**: Advanced convolutional variant with detailed architecture.
+- **MNIST_PCA_CAE.ipynb**: Hybrid approach combining PCA with convolutional layers.
+
+### Quantum-Enhanced Models
+- **MNIST_QAE.ipynb**: Quantum AutoEncoder with quantum latent space for digit representation.
+- **MNIST_SQAE.ipynb**: Single-Qubit Quantum AutoEncoder variant for minimal quantum resource usage.
+
+### Hyperparameter Optimization
+- **MNIST_QAE_hyperparameters.ipynb**: Systematic tuning of quantum circuit depth, learning rates, and layer configurations.
+- **MNIST_QAE_model.ipynb**: Best-performing QAE configuration discovered through tuning.
+- **MNIST_SQAE_hyperparameters.ipynb**: Hyperparameter search for single-qubit variant.
+
+## Key Metrics
+
+- **Reconstruction MSE**: Measures how well the autoencoder reconstructs digits.
+- **Latent Dimensionality**: Compression ratio achieved (original size vs. bottleneck).
+- **Training Efficiency**: Wall-clock time and convergence speed for classical vs. quantum variants.
+
+## Typical Results
+
+- Classical CAE: MSE ~0.01–0.02 on test set; ~10× compression ratio.
+- Quantum AE: Competitive reconstruction with fewer latent qubits; scalability limited by circuit depth.
+- Hyperparameter tuning improves both classical and quantum variants by ~5–15%.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+Install via the parent directory's `requirements.txt`:
+
+```bash
+pip install -r ../requirements.txt
+```
+
+Key packages:
+- `tensorflow` / `tensorflow-quantum`
+- `pennylane` for quantum circuits
+- `cirq` for quantum circuit visualization
+- `scikit-learn` for PCA and preprocessing
+
+## Usage
+
+1. **Run a notebook**: Open any `.ipynb` file in Jupyter/Colab and execute cells from top to bottom.
+2. **Compare architectures**: Each notebook produces training curves and reconstruction visualizations.
+3. **Tune hyperparameters**: Start with `*_hyperparameters.ipynb` notebooks to explore the parameter space.
+4. **Visualize results**: Check digit reconstruction plots and latent space embeddings.
+
+## Future Directions
+
+- Extend quantum circuits to deeper, more expressive topologies.
+- Implement variational quantum autoencoders (VQAE) with Barren Plateau mitigation.
+- Port to JAX/Flax for improved numerical stability and GPU acceleration.
+- Apply learned representations as pretrained features for downstream HEP tasks (Quark-Gluon, Electron-Photon).
+
+---
+
+**Contributing**: This folder is part of the ML4SCI/QMLHEP initiative advancing quantum machine learning benchmarks and techniques.

Quantum_AE_for_HEP_Tom_Magorsch/dev_notebooks/Pennylane/README.md

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+# PennyLane Quantum Autoencoders for HEP & ML
+
+This folder contains a comprehensive exploration of **quantum autoencoder designs** implemented using **PennyLane**, including hybrid classical-quantum architectures and advanced optimization techniques.
+
+## Objective
+
+These notebooks showcase the evolution and optimization of quantum autoencoders (QAE, SQAE) for high-energy physics tasks and general machine learning benchmarks. A key focus is comparing different optimization strategies (gradient descent, QNG, parameter initialization) to improve convergence and reconstruction quality.
+
+## Architecture Families
+
+### Hybrid Autoencoders (HAE)
+- **pennylane-HAE.ipynb**: Basic Hybrid AutoEncoder combining classical CNN encoder with quantum bottleneck.
+- **pennylane-HAE-QG.ipynb**: HAE tuned for Quark-Gluon jet data.
+- **pennylane-HAE (2) (2).ipynb**: Variant with improved circuit depth control.
+
+### Single-Qubit Quantum Autoencoders (SQAE)
+- **pennylane-SQAE.ipynb**: Fundamental SQAE architecture.
+- **pennylane-SQAE-keras.ipynb**: SQAE integrated with Keras/TensorFlow training.
+- **pennylane-hybrid.ipynb**: Hybrid training combining classical and quantum layers.
+- **pennylane-hybridSQAE.ipynb**: Full hybrid workflow.
+
+### Advanced Optimization Variants
+- **pennylane-SQAE-QNG.ipynb**: Quantum Natural Gradient (QNG) optimizer for improved convergence.
+- **pennylane-SQAE-ampenc.ipynb**: Amplitude encoding for efficient state preparation.
+- **pennylane-SQAE-DRC.ipynb**: Dynamical Reconfigurable Circuits.
+- **QNG_comparasion.ipynb**: Benchmarks QNG vs. standard gradient descent.
+
+### Physics-Specific Models
+- **pennylane-SQAE-convDRC-QG.ipynb**: Convolutional DRC for Quark-Gluon classification.
+- **pennylane-SQAE-convDRC-QG-jax.ipynb**: Same architecture in JAX/Flax backend.
+- **pennylane-SQAE-convDRC-QG-model.ipynb**: Production-ready configuration.
+- **pennylane-SQAE-convDRC-EP.ipynb**: Electron-Photon variant.
+- **pennylane-SQAE-convDRC-Qconv.ipynb**: Quantum convolutional layers.
+
+### Supervised Learning with Quantum Circuits
+- **pennylane-supervised-qg.ipynb**: Quantum circuit for supervised Quark-Gluon classification.
+- **pennylane-supervised-qg-Copy1.ipynb**: Variant of above.
+
+### Debugging & Development
+- **Batched_hybrid_debug.ipynb**: Troubleshooting batched quantum-classical hybrid training.
+- **animation.gif, animation2.gif, animation3.gif**: Training visualizations (Bloch sphere rotations, loss curves).
+- **bloch.gif, bloch2.gif, bloch3.gif**: Animated Bloch sphere representations of learned quantum states.
+
+## Key Innovations
+
+- **Quantum Natural Gradient (QNG)**: Faster convergence than vanilla gradient descent (see `QNG_comparasion.ipynb`).
+- **Dynamical Reconfigurable Circuits**: Adapting quantum circuit structure during training.
+- **JAX Backend**: Several notebooks use JAX for automatic differentiation and GPU acceleration.
+- **Batch Training**: Hybrid architectures supporting mini-batch updates (see `Batched_hybrid_debug.ipynb`).
+
+## Typical Performance
+
+- Hybrid Autoencoders: ~0.75–0.85 AUC on Quark-Gluon; ~50% latent dimension reduction.
+- SQAE Models: Scalable to 200+ layers with careful initialization and learning rate tuning.
+- QNG Optimization: 2–5× faster convergence vs. standard SGD on small circuits.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+Install via the parent directory's `requirements.txt`:
+
+```bash
+pip install -r ../requirements.txt
+```
+
+Essential packages:
+- `pennylane` (quantum circuits & autoencoders)
+- `pennylane-qiskit` or `pennylane-lightning` (simulator backends)
+- `jax` / `jaxlib` (for JAX-based notebooks)
+- `tensorflow` / `tensorflow-quantum` (for Keras integration)
+
+## Usage
+
+1. **Start with basics**: Run `pennylane-HAE.ipynb` or `pennylane-SQAE.ipynb` for fundamentals.
+2. **Compare optimizers**: Use `QNG_comparasion.ipynb` to understand QNG benefits.
+3. **Physics applications**: Jump to `pennylane-SQAE-convDRC-QG*.ipynb` for Quark-Gluon tasks.
+4. **Visualize training**: Check `.gif` files for animated Bloch sphere and loss curves.
+
+## Future Directions
+
+- Port all models to full JAX/Flax ecosystem for seamless integration with QMLHEP7.
+- Implement error mitigation techniques for hardware execution.
+- Extend to multi-qubit entangling circuits for increased expressivity.
+- Auto-tune hyperparameters using Bayesian optimization or RL.
+
+---
+
+**Contributing**: These notebooks form a foundation for quantum autoencoder research in ML4SCI/QMLHEP, enabling rapid prototyping and physics-aware optimization.