Journal
2022 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING (QCE 2022)
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 31-37Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/QCE53715.2022.00021
Keywords
image classification; variational quantum computing; data uploading
Funding
- Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy
- Hightech Agenda Bayern
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The representation of high dimensional data in quantum circuits is a challenge, and this study proposes a novel encoding pattern called "incremental data-uploading" that achieves a better data representation with minimal pre-processing requirements.
The data representation in a machine-learning model strongly influences its performance. This becomes even more important for quantum machine learning models implemented on noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Encoding high dimensional data into a quantum circuit for a NISQ device without any loss of information is not trivial and brings a lot of challenges. While simple encoding schemes (like single qubit rotational gates to encode high dimensional data) often lead to information loss within the circuit, complex encoding schemes with entanglement and data re-uploading lead to an increase in the encoding gate count. This is not well-suited for NISQ devices. This work proposes 'incremental data-uploading', a novel encoding pattern for high dimensional data that tackles these challenges. We spread the encoding gates for the feature vector of a given data point throughout the quantum circuit with parameterized gates in between them. This encoding pattern results in a better representation of data in the quantum circuit with a minimal pre-processing requirement. We show the efficiency of our encoding pattern on a classification task using the MNIST and Fashion-MNIST datasets, and compare different encoding methods via classification accuracy and the effective dimension of the model.
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