Shot-Based Quantum Encoding: A Data-Loading Paradigm for Quantum Neural Networks

arXiv:2604.06135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient data loading remains a bottleneck for near-term quantum machine-learning. Existing schemes (angle, amplitude, and basis encoding) either underuse the exponential Hilbert-space capacity or require circuit depths that exceed the coherence budgets of noisy intermediate-scale quantum hardware. We introduce Shot-Based Quantum Encoding (SBQE), a data embedding strategy that distributes the hardware's native resource, shots, according to a dat