QUSL: Quantum Unsupervised Image Similarity Learning with Enhanced Performance

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Main Authors: Yu, Lian-Hui, Li, Xiao-Yu, Chen, Geng, Zhu, Qin-Sheng, Li, Hui, Yang, Guo-Wu
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author Yu, Lian-Hui
Li, Xiao-Yu
Chen, Geng
Zhu, Qin-Sheng
Li, Hui
Yang, Guo-Wu
author_facet Yu, Lian-Hui
Li, Xiao-Yu
Chen, Geng
Zhu, Qin-Sheng
Li, Hui
Yang, Guo-Wu
contents Leveraging quantum properties to enhance complex learning tasks has been proven feasible, with excellent recent achievements in the field of unsupervised learning. However, current quantum schemes neglect adaptive adjustments for unsupervised task scenarios. This work proposes a novel quantum unsupervised similarity learning method, QUSL. Firstly, QUSL uses similarity triplets for unsupervised learning, generating positive samples by perturbing anchor images, achieving a learning process independent of classical algorithms. Subsequently, combining the feature interweaving of triplets, QUSL employs metaheuristic algorithms to systematically explore high-performance mapping processes, obtaining quantum circuit architectures more suitable for unsupervised image similarity tasks. Ultimately, QUSL realizes feature learning with lower quantum resource costs. Comprehensive numerical simulations and experiments on quantum computers demonstrate that QUSL outperforms state-of-the-art quantum methods. QUSL achieves over 50% reduction in critical quantum resource utilization. QUSL improves similarity detection correlation by up to 19.5% across multiple datasets, exhibiting robustness in NISQ environments. While using fewer quantum resources, QUSL shows potential for large-scale unsupervised tasks.
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spellingShingle QUSL: Quantum Unsupervised Image Similarity Learning with Enhanced Performance
Yu, Lian-Hui
Li, Xiao-Yu
Chen, Geng
Zhu, Qin-Sheng
Li, Hui
Yang, Guo-Wu
Quantum Physics
Leveraging quantum properties to enhance complex learning tasks has been proven feasible, with excellent recent achievements in the field of unsupervised learning. However, current quantum schemes neglect adaptive adjustments for unsupervised task scenarios. This work proposes a novel quantum unsupervised similarity learning method, QUSL. Firstly, QUSL uses similarity triplets for unsupervised learning, generating positive samples by perturbing anchor images, achieving a learning process independent of classical algorithms. Subsequently, combining the feature interweaving of triplets, QUSL employs metaheuristic algorithms to systematically explore high-performance mapping processes, obtaining quantum circuit architectures more suitable for unsupervised image similarity tasks. Ultimately, QUSL realizes feature learning with lower quantum resource costs. Comprehensive numerical simulations and experiments on quantum computers demonstrate that QUSL outperforms state-of-the-art quantum methods. QUSL achieves over 50% reduction in critical quantum resource utilization. QUSL improves similarity detection correlation by up to 19.5% across multiple datasets, exhibiting robustness in NISQ environments. While using fewer quantum resources, QUSL shows potential for large-scale unsupervised tasks.
title QUSL: Quantum Unsupervised Image Similarity Learning with Enhanced Performance
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02028