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arXiv:2201.01246 · Journal of the Franklin Institute

Efficient quantum feature extraction for CNN-based learning

Tong Dou, Guofeng Zhang, Wei Cui

Published Jun 7, 2023• 22 citations
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10.1016/j.jfranklin.2023.06.003

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