Late Breaking Results: Hardware-Efficient Quantum Reservoir Computing via Quantized Readout

Due to rising electricity demand, accurate short-term load forecasting is increasingly important for grid stability and efficient energy management, particularly in resource-constrained edge settings. We present a hardware-efficient Quantum Reservoir Computing (QRC) framework based on a fixed, untrained quantum circuit with Chebyshev feature encoding, brickwork entanglement, and single- and two-qubit Pauli measurements, avoiding quantum backpropagation entirely. Using the Tetouan City Power Consumption dataset, we examine the effect of post-training fixed-point quantization on the classical readout layer, with the reservoir architecture selected through a genetic search over 18 candidate configurations. Under finite-shot evaluation, 8-bit and 6-bit quantization maintain forecasting accuracy within 1% of the FP32 baseline while reducing readout memory by 75% and 81%, respectively. These results suggest that quantized readout can improve the hardware efficiency and deployment practicality of QRC for memory-constrained energy forecasting.

Source: arXiv:2604.06075v1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06075v1 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.06075v1 Original Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06075v1