In the objective world, how to deal with the complexity and uncertainty of big data efficiently and accurately has become the premise and key to machine learning. Fuzzy support vector machine (FSVM) not only deals with the classification problems for training samples with fuzzy information, but also assigns a fuzzy membership degree to each training sample, allowing different training samples to contribute differently in predicting an optimal hyperplane to separate two classes with maximum margin, reducing the effect of outliers and noise, Quantum computing has super parallel computing capabilities and holds the promise of faster algorithmic processing of data. However, FSVM and quantum computing are incapable of dealing with the complexity and uncertainty of big data in an efficient and accurate manner. This paper research and propose an efficient and accurate quantum fuzzy support vector machine (QFSVM) algorithm based on the fact that quantum computing can efficiently process large amounts of data and FSVM is easy to deal with the complexity and uncertainty problems. The central idea of the proposed algorithm is to use the quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations (HHL algorithm) and the least-squares method to solve the quadratic programming problem in the FSVM. The proposed algorithm can determine whether a sample belongs to the positive or negative class while also achieving a good generalization performance. Furthermore, this paper applies QFSVM to handwritten character recognition and demonstrates that QFSVM can be run on quantum computers, and achieve accurate classification of handwritten characters. When compared to FSVM, QFSVM’s computational complexity decreases exponentially with the number of training samples.
The evolution of quantum computers and quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms have started demonstrating exponential speed-ups. In machine learning problems, the efficient handling and manipulation of linear algebra subroutines defines the complexity of the task to be performed. Quantum computers handle big datasets in the form of vectors and matrix operations very efficiently. In this paper, quantum support vector machine (QSVM) algorithm is used to solve a classification problem using a benchmarking MNIST dataset of handwritten images of digits. Quantum SVM variational and kernel matrix algorithms are implemented to analyze quantum speedup on quantum simulator and physical quantum processor back-ends. The study compared classical and quantum SVM algorithms in terms of execution time and accuracy. The results explicitly prove quantum speed-up achieved by quantum classifiers on quantum back-ends for machine learning applications.
The rapid growth of computer vision and increasingly complex image recognition tasks has exposed fundamental computational limitations of classical machine learning models, motivating the exploration of quantum computing as an emerging new paradigm. This paper presents a comprehensive benchmarking study of classical and quantum machine learning models for image recognition on the MNIST handwritten digit dataset, evaluating both traditional models, a Classical Support Vector Machine (CSVM) and a Quantum Support Vector Machine (QSVM), and deep neural network models, a Classical Convolutional Neural Network (CCNN) and a Quantum Convolutional Neural Network (QCNN), across four performance dimensions: classification accuracy, computational runtime, parameter count, and memory requirements. Experiments are conducted as functions of both feature dimensionality and sample size, and across CPU and GPU execution environments, providing a controlled, multidimensional comparison to address gaps in prior work. For the SVM-based models, QSVM consistently outperforms CSVM in accuracy, reaching
∼ 0.90 versus
∼ 0.85 at 1,000 samples, with a higher computational cost. A feature count of 10 qubits and a sample size in the range of 200 -- 500 emerge as practical operating points that balance accuracy and runtime. For the neural network models, CCNN and QCNN achieve comparable classification accuracy, both exceeding 0.96 at 64 features and 60,000 samples, yet QCNN offers superior parameter and memory efficiency at higher feature counts, while incurring higher runtime. Across both model families, quantum models consistently outperform classical models by greater margins in accuracy as feature dimensionality or sample size increases.