Implementing perceptron models with qubits

R Wiersema, HJ Kappen - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Physical Review A, 2019APS
We propose a method for learning a quantum probabilistic model of a perceptron. By
considering a cross entropy between two density matrices we can learn a model that takes
noisy output labels into account while learning. Although some work has been done that
aims to utilize the curious properties of quantum systems to build a quantum perceptron,
these proposals rely on the ad hoc introduction of a classical cost function for the
optimization procedure. We demonstrate the usage of a quantum probabilistic model by …
We propose a method for learning a quantum probabilistic model of a perceptron. By considering a cross entropy between two density matrices we can learn a model that takes noisy output labels into account while learning. Although some work has been done that aims to utilize the curious properties of quantum systems to build a quantum perceptron, these proposals rely on the ad hoc introduction of a classical cost function for the optimization procedure. We demonstrate the usage of a quantum probabilistic model by considering a quantum equivalent of the classical log-likelihood, which allows for both a quantum model and training procedure. We show that this allows us to better capture noisiness in data compared to a classical perceptron. By considering entangled qubits we can learn nonlinear separation boundaries, such as xor.
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