Advances in Quantum Neural and Reinforcement Learning

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First Advances in Quantum Neural and Reinforcement Learning, QNRL@WCCI 2026, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, during June 21-26, 2026.

The 7 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Quantum Reinforcement Learning and Decision Systems; Quantum Neural Architectures and Generative Models; Hybrid Quantum Learning Applications and Scientific
Machine Learning.