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International Conference on Information Networking

Quantum Convolutional Neural Network for Resource-Efficient Image Classification: A Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM) Approach

Seunghyeok Oh, Jaeho Choi, Jong‐Kook Kim, Joongheon Kim

Published Jan 13, 2021• 30 citations
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Abstract

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a breakthrough learning model that shows outstanding performance in computer vision and deep learning applications. However, it is a relatively burdened model in terms of learning speed and resource usage compared to other learning models when the learning scale becomes large. Quantum Convolutional Neural Network (QCNN) is a novel model as a potential solution using quantum computers to handle this problem. Quantum computers with a limited number of usable qubits needs a resource-efficient method to process large-scale data at once. In addition, Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM) can store the large data to qubits logarithmically using superposition and entanglement. The QRAM algorithm can design a new QCNN model that can efficiently process in massive data. This paper proposes a more resource and depth efficient model for larger-sized input data and the number of output channels using the QRAM algorithm and efficiently extracting features.

DOI
10.1109/icoin50884.2021.9333906

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