Self-Attention for Quantum Entanglement Prediction

Abstract

Quantum entanglement is a powerful resource for quantum-enhanced technologies. However, its reliable quantification remains challenging due to the exponential scaling of the Hilbert space with system size, which renders full state tomography infeasible. Moreover, experimentally estimating entanglement typically requires a large number of measurement samples leading to a significant overhead. In this work, we present two models, a feed-forward neural network and an attention-based model, to accurately predict the bipartite second Renyi from projective measurements of quantum states. We benchmark their performance against standard classical shadow estimators and find that the machine-learning approaches achieve higher accuracy and improved sample efficiency across a range of system sizes. Our results demonstrate the potential of machine learning for scalable and efficient estimation of quantum correlations.