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A text classification algorithm based on quantum information

Songtao Shang, Minyong Shi, Wenqian Shang, Zhiguo Hong

Published Aug 1, 2015• 2 citations

Abstract

Text classification is one of key problems in pattern recognition. The KNN algorithm is a widely used text classification algorithm, because it is simple, valid and non-parameters. The main idea of KNN algorithm is to calculate the similarity between the new sample with unknown class label and the training samples, and choosing the class label of the highest k nearest neighbors as the new sample's class label. However, the text contains hundreds and thousands of features. The similarity computing in large numbers of vector will cost many time. In fact that, many machine learning algorithms are unable to manipulate and compute large number of vectors in high-dimensional space. Quantum computing algorithms are good at computing high-dimensional vectors in large tensor product spaces. It can provide exponential speed-up over its classical counterparts. The N-dimensional quantum vectors represent 2N quantum superposition states. The similarity computing on the N-dimensional vectors is also on the 2N quantum superposition states simultaneously. Therefore, this paper introduces a KNN algorithms based on quantum computing, which uses fidelity to compute the similarity between two quantum states. The Control-Swap Test gate is very convenient as a fidelity estimator.

DOI: 10.1109/icnc.2015.7378020

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One of the simplest and most effective classical machine learning algorithms is the

k

-nearest neighbors algorithm (

k

NN) which classifies an unknown test state by finding the

k

nearest neighbors from a set of

M

train states. Here we present a quantum analog of classical

k

NN

-

quantum

k

NN (Q

k

NN)

-

based on fidelity as the similarity measure. We show that Q

k

NN algorithm can be reduced to an instance of the quantum

k

-maxima algorithm, hence the query complexity of Q

k

NN is

O(\sqrt{kM})

. The non-trivial task in this reduction is to encode the fidelity information between the test state and all the train states as amplitudes of a quantum state. Converting this amplitude encoded information to a digital format enables us to compare them efficiently, thus completing the reduction. Unlike classical

-

NN and existing quantum

k

NN algorithms, the proposed algorithm can be directly used on quantum data thereby bypassing expensive processes such as quantum state tomography. As an example, we show the applicability of this algorithm in entanglement classification and quantum state discrimination.