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The authors report an efficient way to approximately convert matrix product states into restricted Boltzmann machine wave functions using a CP decomposition.
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What the paper says, word for word
“We find an efficient approach to approximately convert matrix product states (MPSs) into restricted Boltzmann machine wave functions consisting of a multinomial hidden unit through a canonical polyadic (CP) decomposition of the MPSs.”
From Kaneko and Goto (2025), arXiv 2506.23550. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 19 Oct 2026.
matrix product states (MPSs):
A compact way of writing a quantum many-body wave function as a chain of linked small tensors (arrays of numbers).
restricted Boltzmann machine wave function:
A quantum state represented by a simple type of neural network with visible units for the physical variables and hidden units that capture correlations between them.
canonical polyadic (CP) decomposition:
A way of approximating a large multi-index array of numbers as a sum of a small number of simple products of vectors, the number of terms being the rank.
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The paper
Seeding neural network quantum states with tensor network states
Ryui Kaneko and Shimpei Goto
Physical review. B./Physical review. B · published 2025 · arXiv 2506.23550
The paper presents a method to turn matrix product states into restricted Boltzmann machine wave functions, to give neural quantum states a good starting point, and tests it on the transverse-field Ising model.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 19 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
Neural network quantum states are used to find the lowest-energy (ground) states of quantum many-body systems, and their results can depend on how they are initialised. Starting from a matrix product state, a different well-established representation, could give the neural network a better starting point. The authors also discuss possible use for more general systems whose ground-state wave functions have complex nodal structures.
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What the authors did
The authors developed a conversion based on a canonical polyadic decomposition of matrix product states into a restricted Boltzmann machine with a multinomial hidden unit. They demonstrated it on the transverse-field Ising model.
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What they found
An efficient approximate conversion from matrix product states to restricted Boltzmann machine wave functions is found, using a CP decomposition.
It generates well-behaved initial neural network quantum states for ground-state calculations in polynomial time in the number of variational parameters.
Raising the rank of the CP decomposition systematically shortens the distance between the initial states and the ground states.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"We find an efficient approach to approximately convert matrix product states (MPSs) into restricted Boltzmann machine wave functions consisting of a multinomial hidden unit through a canonical polyadic (CP) decomposition of the MPSs."
(Kaneko et al., Physical review. B./Physical review. B, 2025)
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Refuted if no polynomial‑time algorithm can map an arbitrary MPS to an RBM with a multinomial hidden unit that achieves fidelity ≥0.9 for all system sizes up to N.
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It states the method the paper reports: “The test requires a polynomial‑time algorithm that maps any MPS to an RBM with a multinomial hidden unit achieving fidelity ≥0.9 for all system sizes up to N, matching the paper’s claim of an efficient (polynomial‑time) conversion method”.
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