arXiv:2204.04550 · IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)

Embedding Learning in Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Networks

Minzhao Liu, Junyu Liu, Rui Liu, Henry Makhanov, Danylo Lykov, Anuj Apte, Yuri Alexeev

Published Sep 1, 2022• 16 citations

Abstract

Quantum embedding learning is an important step in the application of quantum machine learning to classical data. In this paper we propose a quantum few-shot embedding learning paradigm, which learns embeddings useful for training downstream quantum machine learning tasks. Crucially, we identify the circuit bypass problem in hybrid neural networks, where learned classical parameters are optimized to represent the dataset without the quantum kernel. We observe that the few-shot learning embeddings generalize to unseen classes, and suffer less from the circuit bypass problem in terms of better occupation of the parameter space compared with embeddings learned from regression and classification.

DOI: 10.1109/qce53715.2022.00026

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