Evaluating the performance of sigmoid quantum perceptrons in quantum neural networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06198v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 10:08:11 GMT
• Title: Evaluating the performance of sigmoid quantum perceptrons in quantum neural networks
• Authors: Samuel A Wilkinson and Michael J Hartmann
• Abstract summary: Quantum neural networks (QNN) have been proposed as a promising architecture for quantum machine learning. One candidate is quantum perceptrons designed to emulate the nonlinear activation functions of classical perceptrons. We critically investigate both the capabilities and performance of SQP networks by computing their effective dimension and effective capacity.
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• Abstract: Quantum neural networks (QNN) have been proposed as a promising architecture for quantum machine learning. There exist a number of different quantum circuit designs being branded as QNNs, however no clear candidate has presented itself as more suitable than the others. Rather, the search for a ``quantum perceptron" -- the fundamental building block of a QNN -- is still underway. One candidate is quantum perceptrons designed to emulate the nonlinear activation functions of classical perceptrons. Such sigmoid quantum perceptrons (SQPs) inherit the universal approximation property that guarantees that classical neural networks can approximate any function. However, this does not guarantee that QNNs built from SQPs will have any quantum advantage over their classical counterparts. Here we critically investigate both the capabilities and performance of SQP networks by computing their effective dimension and effective capacity, as well as examining their performance on real learning problems. The results are compared to those obtained for other candidate networks which lack activation functions. It is found that simpler, and apparently easier-to-implement parametric quantum circuits actually perform better than SQPs. This indicates that the universal approximation theorem, which a cornerstone of the theory of classical neural networks, is not a relevant criterion for QNNs.

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