Quantum AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) Lab Publications

Created: Damir Cavar, 2025-06-02

Last change: Damir Cavar, 2026-04-19

Panels

QED-C Discussion and Panel on the Future of Quantum and AI (March 12th, 2025) (LinkedIn post) with Cierra Choucair, Alain Chancé, Damir Cavar, Bob Coecke, Taha Selim (the recording is available on the QED-C YouTube channel)

Poster Presentations

Cavar, D., Peter Sullivan, Shane Sparks, Sam Gray Miller, Ronit Jha, Ayomide Jeje, Yanin Charoenpornsawat (2026) Training Language Models and Embeddings for Hybrid Classical/Quantum Computing. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
Cavar, D., Shane Sparks, Soren DeHaan, Ronit Jha, Ayomide Jeje, Yanin Charoenpomsawat, Sam Gray Miller (2026) Hybrid Classical-Quantum Language and World Models for AI - CBIRD, Poster presentation at the Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT) Meeting 2026 at Notre Dame, 1st of April, 2026.
Cavar, D. (2026) “From Vectors to Qubits: Rethinking AI Models for the Hybrid Classical–Quantum Era,” invited keynote lecture, September 16-18, 2026 at the 37th Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems (CECIIS 2026), Varaždin, Croatia.
Cavar, D. (2026) “Hybrid Classical/Quantum Data Structures And Experiments For New AI Architectures,” invited lecture, March 25, 2026, Research Technologies Speaker Series, Cyberinfrastructure Building, Indiana University.
Quantum Computing for AI and NLP, presentation at the Luddy School for Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, Undergraduate Research Experiential Learning Fall 2025.
[Cavar, D.], James Bryan Graves, Shane A. Sparks and Koushik Reddy Parukola (2025) Hybrid Classical Quantum Embeddings for NLP and AI using Hamiltonians. Short paper and poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. (poster)

Talks

Cavar, D., Koushik Reddy Parukola, James Graves, Shane A. Sparks (2025) Old Wine in New Bottles: Using Classical Word Embeddings in Gate-Based Quantum NLP Systems. Paper to be presented at the Quantum AI and NLP Conference 2025, Indiana University, August 2025.
Cavar, D., Koushik Reddy Parukola, Shane A. Sparks (2025) Old Wine in New Bottles: Using Classical Word Embeddings in Quantum NLP Systems. Paper to be presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days 2025, University of Notre Dame, April 2025.
Damir Cavar, Koushik Reddy Parukola (2025) Word and Text Similarity Using Classical Word Embeddings in Quantum NLP Systems. Satellite Workshop: Quantum Machine Learning in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Hyderabad, India.
Chi Zhang, Akriti Kumari, Damir Cavar (2024) Entangled Meanings: Classification and Ambiguity Resolution in Near–Term QNLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (full paper, short paper, poster)
Damir Cavar and Chi Zhang (2024) Semantic Similarities using Classical Embeddings in Quantum NLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (paper, poster)
Damir Cavar, Chi Zhang, Koushik Reddy Parukola (2024) Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) (2024) Presentation at the Quantum Day 2024 Seminar Series, organized by Quantum Technologies for Everyone (QuTE) at Indiana University Bloomington, April 14th 2024.
Quantum-Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) (2024) Presentation at the CQT - Center for Quantum Technologies, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) Year 2, Phase I, Spring 2024 Industry Advisory Board Meeting, April 3-4, 2024, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.
Quantum Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (2024) NLP-Lab poster. Luddy-Crane Summit on March 29, 2024 at Indiana University Bloomington.

Publications

Cavar, D., James Bryan Graves, Shane A. Sparks and Koushik Reddy Parukola (2025) Hybrid Classical Quantum Embeddings for NLP and AI using Hamiltonians. Short paper and poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Cavar, D., Koushik Reddy Parukola, James Bryan Graves, Shane Sparks (2025) Old Wine in New Bottles: Using Classical Word Embeddings in Gate-Based Quantum NLP Systems. Paper to be presented at the Quantum AI and NLP Conference 2025, Indiana University, August 2025. In D. Cavar, V. Aggarwal, S. Chen, J. Busemeyer (eds.) Quantum AI and NLP 2025, Springer.
Damir Cavar, Koushik Reddy Parukola (2025) Word and Text Similarity Using Classical Word Embeddings in Quantum NLP Systems. Satellite Workshop: Quantum Machine Learning in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Hyderabad, India.
Chi Zhang, Akriti Kumari, Damir Cavar (2024) Entangled Meanings: Classification and Ambiguity Resolution in Near–Term QNLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (full paper, short paper, poster)
Damir Cavar and Chi Zhang (2024) Semantic Similarities using Classical Embeddings in Quantum NLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (paper, poster)

Software

We launched the Natural Language Qu Kit (NLQK), a Quantum NLP (QNLP) library - GitHub repo, PyPi project, website