Let the Quantum Creep In: Designing Quantum Neural Network Models by Gradually Swapping Out Classical Components

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Main Authors: Wang, Peiyong, Myers, Casey. R., Hollenberg, Lloyd C. L., Parampalli, Udaya
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Published: 2024
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author Wang, Peiyong
Myers, Casey. R.
Hollenberg, Lloyd C. L.
Parampalli, Udaya
author_facet Wang, Peiyong
Myers, Casey. R.
Hollenberg, Lloyd C. L.
Parampalli, Udaya
contents Artificial Intelligence (AI), with its multiplier effect and wide applications in multiple areas, could potentially be an important application of quantum computing. Since modern AI systems are often built on neural networks, the design of quantum neural networks becomes a key challenge in integrating quantum computing into AI. To provide a more fine-grained characterisation of the impact of quantum components on the performance of neural networks, we propose a framework where classical neural network layers are gradually replaced by quantum layers that have the same type of input and output while keeping the flow of information between layers unchanged, different from most current research in quantum neural network, which favours an end-to-end quantum model. We start with a simple three-layer classical neural network without any normalisation layers or activation functions, and gradually change the classical layers to the corresponding quantum versions. We conduct numerical experiments on image classification datasets such as the MNIST, FashionMNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets to demonstrate the change of performance brought by the systematic introduction of quantum components. Through this framework, our research sheds new light on the design of future quantum neural network models where it could be more favourable to search for methods and frameworks that harness the advantages from both the classical and quantum worlds.
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spellingShingle Let the Quantum Creep In: Designing Quantum Neural Network Models by Gradually Swapping Out Classical Components
Wang, Peiyong
Myers, Casey. R.
Hollenberg, Lloyd C. L.
Parampalli, Udaya
Quantum Physics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI), with its multiplier effect and wide applications in multiple areas, could potentially be an important application of quantum computing. Since modern AI systems are often built on neural networks, the design of quantum neural networks becomes a key challenge in integrating quantum computing into AI. To provide a more fine-grained characterisation of the impact of quantum components on the performance of neural networks, we propose a framework where classical neural network layers are gradually replaced by quantum layers that have the same type of input and output while keeping the flow of information between layers unchanged, different from most current research in quantum neural network, which favours an end-to-end quantum model. We start with a simple three-layer classical neural network without any normalisation layers or activation functions, and gradually change the classical layers to the corresponding quantum versions. We conduct numerical experiments on image classification datasets such as the MNIST, FashionMNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets to demonstrate the change of performance brought by the systematic introduction of quantum components. Through this framework, our research sheds new light on the design of future quantum neural network models where it could be more favourable to search for methods and frameworks that harness the advantages from both the classical and quantum worlds.
title Let the Quantum Creep In: Designing Quantum Neural Network Models by Gradually Swapping Out Classical Components
topic Quantum Physics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17583