Quantum Theory and Application of Contextual Optimal Transport

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Main Authors: Mariella, Nicola, Akhriev, Albert, Tacchino, Francesco, Zoufal, Christa, Gonzalez-Espitia, Juan Carlos, Harsanyi, Benedek, Koskin, Eugene, Tavernelli, Ivano, Woerner, Stefan, Rapsomaniki, Marianna, Zhuk, Sergiy, Born, Jannis
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author Mariella, Nicola
Akhriev, Albert
Tacchino, Francesco
Zoufal, Christa
Gonzalez-Espitia, Juan Carlos
Harsanyi, Benedek
Koskin, Eugene
Tavernelli, Ivano
Woerner, Stefan
Rapsomaniki, Marianna
Zhuk, Sergiy
Born, Jannis
author_facet Mariella, Nicola
Akhriev, Albert
Tacchino, Francesco
Zoufal, Christa
Gonzalez-Espitia, Juan Carlos
Harsanyi, Benedek
Koskin, Eugene
Tavernelli, Ivano
Woerner, Stefan
Rapsomaniki, Marianna
Zhuk, Sergiy
Born, Jannis
contents Optimal Transport (OT) has fueled machine learning (ML) across many domains. When paired data measurements $(\boldsymbolμ, \boldsymbolν)$ are coupled to covariates, a challenging conditional distribution learning setting arises. Existing approaches for learning a $\textit{global}$ transport map parameterized through a potentially unseen context utilize Neural OT and largely rely on Brenier's theorem. Here, we propose a first-of-its-kind quantum computing formulation for amortized optimization of contextualized transportation plans. We exploit a direct link between doubly stochastic matrices and unitary operators thus unravelling a natural connection between OT and quantum computation. We verify our method (QontOT) on synthetic and real data by predicting variations in cell type distributions conditioned on drug dosage. Importantly we conduct a 24-qubit hardware experiment on a task challenging for classical computers and report a performance that cannot be matched with our classical neural OT approach. In sum, this is a first step toward learning to predict contextualized transportation plans through quantum computing.
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spellingShingle Quantum Theory and Application of Contextual Optimal Transport
Mariella, Nicola
Akhriev, Albert
Tacchino, Francesco
Zoufal, Christa
Gonzalez-Espitia, Juan Carlos
Harsanyi, Benedek
Koskin, Eugene
Tavernelli, Ivano
Woerner, Stefan
Rapsomaniki, Marianna
Zhuk, Sergiy
Born, Jannis
Machine Learning
Emerging Technologies
Quantum Algebra
Quantitative Methods
Quantum Physics
Optimal Transport (OT) has fueled machine learning (ML) across many domains. When paired data measurements $(\boldsymbolμ, \boldsymbolν)$ are coupled to covariates, a challenging conditional distribution learning setting arises. Existing approaches for learning a $\textit{global}$ transport map parameterized through a potentially unseen context utilize Neural OT and largely rely on Brenier's theorem. Here, we propose a first-of-its-kind quantum computing formulation for amortized optimization of contextualized transportation plans. We exploit a direct link between doubly stochastic matrices and unitary operators thus unravelling a natural connection between OT and quantum computation. We verify our method (QontOT) on synthetic and real data by predicting variations in cell type distributions conditioned on drug dosage. Importantly we conduct a 24-qubit hardware experiment on a task challenging for classical computers and report a performance that cannot be matched with our classical neural OT approach. In sum, this is a first step toward learning to predict contextualized transportation plans through quantum computing.
title Quantum Theory and Application of Contextual Optimal Transport
topic Machine Learning
Emerging Technologies
Quantum Algebra
Quantitative Methods
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14991