What Does It Cost to Simulate a Quantum Sentence Classifier? An Energy and Compute Perspective on Near-Term QNLP
Near-term quantum natural language processing (QNLP) experiments often run on classical simulators, so simulator cost is part of the field's practical compute burden, yet accuracy tables do not show it. We measure that cost for a variational quantum classifier (VQC) on binary SST-2 sentiment classification, using Penny...