Enhancing the performance of Variational Quantum Classifiers with hybrid autoencoders

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Main Authors: Maragkopoulos, G., Mandilara, A., Tsili, A., Syvridis, D.
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Published: 2024
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author Maragkopoulos, G.
Mandilara, A.
Tsili, A.
Syvridis, D.
author_facet Maragkopoulos, G.
Mandilara, A.
Tsili, A.
Syvridis, D.
contents Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC) lie at the forefront of quantum machine learning research. Still, the use of quantum networks for real data processing remains challenging as the number of available qubits cannot accommodate a large dimensionality of data --if the usual angle encoding scenario is used. To achieve dimensionality reduction, Principal Component Analysis is routinely applied as a pre-processing method before the embedding of the classical features on qubits. In this work, we propose an alternative method which reduces the dimensionality of a given dataset by taking into account the specific quantum embedding that comes after. This method aspires to make quantum machine learning with VQCs more versatile and effective on datasets of high dimension. At a second step, we propose a quantum inspired classical autoencoder model which can be used to encode information in low latent spaces. The power of our proposed models is exhibited via numerical tests. We show that our targeted dimensionality reduction method considerably boosts VQC's performance and we also identify cases for which the second model outperforms classical linear autoencoders in terms of reconstruction loss.
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spellingShingle Enhancing the performance of Variational Quantum Classifiers with hybrid autoencoders
Maragkopoulos, G.
Mandilara, A.
Tsili, A.
Syvridis, D.
Quantum Physics
Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC) lie at the forefront of quantum machine learning research. Still, the use of quantum networks for real data processing remains challenging as the number of available qubits cannot accommodate a large dimensionality of data --if the usual angle encoding scenario is used. To achieve dimensionality reduction, Principal Component Analysis is routinely applied as a pre-processing method before the embedding of the classical features on qubits. In this work, we propose an alternative method which reduces the dimensionality of a given dataset by taking into account the specific quantum embedding that comes after. This method aspires to make quantum machine learning with VQCs more versatile and effective on datasets of high dimension. At a second step, we propose a quantum inspired classical autoencoder model which can be used to encode information in low latent spaces. The power of our proposed models is exhibited via numerical tests. We show that our targeted dimensionality reduction method considerably boosts VQC's performance and we also identify cases for which the second model outperforms classical linear autoencoders in terms of reconstruction loss.
title Enhancing the performance of Variational Quantum Classifiers with hybrid autoencoders
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03350