As many classical neural networks get larger, they can be described as Gaussian processes, the generalization of the normal distribution to infinite dimensions. A similar connection has now been proven for quantum neural networks.
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Thompson, J. Quantum neural networks can be normal. Nat. Phys. 21, 1042–1043 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02941-6
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