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arXiv:1804.00633 · Physical Review A

Circuit-centric quantum classifiers

Maria Schuld, Alex Bocharov, Krysta M. Svore, Nathan Wiebe

Published Mar 6, 2020• 1,050 citations
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Abstract

A machine learning design is developed to train a quantum circuit specialized in solving a classification problem. In addition to discussing the training method and effect of noise, it is shown that the circuits perform reasonably well on classical benchmarks.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.101.032308

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