Detecting underdetermination in parameterized quantum circuits

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Autori principali: Kempkes, Marie, Spiegelberg, Jakob, van Nieuwenburg, Evert, Dunjko, Vedran
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author Kempkes, Marie
Spiegelberg, Jakob
van Nieuwenburg, Evert
Dunjko, Vedran
author_facet Kempkes, Marie
Spiegelberg, Jakob
van Nieuwenburg, Evert
Dunjko, Vedran
contents A central question in machine learning is how reliable the predictions of a trained model are. Reliability includes the identification of instances for which a model is likely not to be trusted based on an analysis of the learning system itself. Such unreliability for an input may arise from the model family providing a variety of hypotheses consistent with the training data, which can vastly disagree in their predictions on that particular input point. This is called the underdetermination problem, and it is important to develop methods to detect it. With the emergence of quantum machine learning (QML) as a prospective alternative to classical methods for certain learning problems, the question arises to what extent they are subject to underdetermination and whether similar techniques as those developed for classical models can be employed for its detection. In this work, we first provide an overview of concepts from Safe AI and reliability, which in particular received little attention in QML. We then explore the use of a method based on local second-order information for the detection of underdetermination in parameterized quantum circuits through numerical experiments. We further demonstrate that the approach is robust to certain levels of shot noise. Our work contributes to the body of literature on Safe Quantum AI, which is an emerging field of growing importance.
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spellingShingle Detecting underdetermination in parameterized quantum circuits
Kempkes, Marie
Spiegelberg, Jakob
van Nieuwenburg, Evert
Dunjko, Vedran
Quantum Physics
Machine Learning
A central question in machine learning is how reliable the predictions of a trained model are. Reliability includes the identification of instances for which a model is likely not to be trusted based on an analysis of the learning system itself. Such unreliability for an input may arise from the model family providing a variety of hypotheses consistent with the training data, which can vastly disagree in their predictions on that particular input point. This is called the underdetermination problem, and it is important to develop methods to detect it. With the emergence of quantum machine learning (QML) as a prospective alternative to classical methods for certain learning problems, the question arises to what extent they are subject to underdetermination and whether similar techniques as those developed for classical models can be employed for its detection. In this work, we first provide an overview of concepts from Safe AI and reliability, which in particular received little attention in QML. We then explore the use of a method based on local second-order information for the detection of underdetermination in parameterized quantum circuits through numerical experiments. We further demonstrate that the approach is robust to certain levels of shot noise. Our work contributes to the body of literature on Safe Quantum AI, which is an emerging field of growing importance.
title Detecting underdetermination in parameterized quantum circuits
topic Quantum Physics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03315