Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning

M Cerezo, G Verdon, HY Huang, L Cincio… - Nature Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
At the intersection of machine learning and quantum computing, quantum machine learning
has the potential of accelerating data analysis, especially for quantum data, with …

Quantum machine learning: from physics to software engineering

A Melnikov, M Kordzanganeh, A Alodjants… - Advances in Physics …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Quantum machine learning is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of quantum
technology and artificial intelligence. This review provides a two-fold overview of several key …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum variational algorithms are swamped with traps

ER Anschuetz, BT Kiani - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
One of the most important properties of classical neural networks is how surprisingly
trainable they are, though their training algorithms typically rely on optimizing complicated …

[HTML][HTML] Generalization in quantum machine learning from few training data

MC Caro, HY Huang, M Cerezo, K Sharma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Modern quantum machine learning (QML) methods involve variationally optimizing a
parameterized quantum circuit on a training data set, and subsequently making predictions …

Group-invariant quantum machine learning

M Larocca, F Sauvage, FM Sbahi, G Verdon, PJ Coles… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Quantum machine learning (QML) models are aimed at learning from data encoded in
quantum states. Recently, it has been shown that models with little to no inductive biases (ie …

Theory for equivariant quantum neural networks

QT Nguyen, L Schatzki, P Braccia, M Ragone, PJ Coles… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Quantum neural network architectures that have little to no inductive biases are known to
face trainability and generalization issues. Inspired by a similar problem, recent …

Avoiding barren plateaus using classical shadows

SH Sack, RA Medina, AA Michailidis, R Kueng… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Variational quantum algorithms are promising algorithms for achieving quantum advantage
on near-term devices. The quantum hardware is used to implement a variational wave …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical guarantees for permutation-equivariant quantum neural networks

L Schatzki, M Larocca, QT Nguyen, F Sauvage… - npj Quantum …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite the great promise of quantum machine learning models, there are several
challenges one must overcome before unlocking their full potential. For instance, models …

[HTML][HTML] Tensorcircuit: a quantum software framework for the nisq era

SX Zhang, J Allcock, ZQ Wan, S Liu, J Sun, H Yu… - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
TensorCircuit is an open source quantum circuit simulator based on tensor network
contraction, designed for speed, flexibility and code efficiency. Written purely in Python, and …

Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability? Or, why we need to rethink variational quantum computing

M Cerezo, M Larocca, D García-Martín, NL Diaz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A large amount of effort has recently been put into understanding the barren plateau
phenomenon. In this perspective article, we face the increasingly loud elephant in the room …