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We live in a world where technology promises to solve everything, yet somehow makes everything more complicated. Every few years, we’re told about the next revolutionary breakthrough—blockchain, the metaverse, whatever buzzword venture capitalists are currently salivating over. Most of these revolutions turn out to be expensive ways to do things we were already doing, just with more energy consumption and investor presentations.

But occasionally, something genuinely different emerges. Something that doesn’t just optimize existing systems but fundamentally reimagines how systems could work. The convergence of quantum computing and artificial intelligence might actually be one of those rare moments.

eQMARL: Entangled Quantum Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Cooperation over Quantum Channels, arXiv (2024).

Towards Heterogeneous Quantum Federated Learning:
Challenges and Solutions. 2025

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