On establishing learning separations between classical and quantum machine learning with classical data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06339v2
• Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 12:05:50 GMT
• Title: On establishing learning separations between classical and quantum machine learning with classical data
• Authors: Casper Gyurik, Vedran Dunjko
• Abstract summary: We discuss the challenges of finding learning problems that quantum learning algorithms can learn much faster than any classical learning algorithm. We study existing learning problems with a provable quantum speedup to distill sets of more general and sufficient conditions. These checklists are intended to streamline one's approach to proving quantum speedups for learning problems, or to elucidate bottlenecks.
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• Abstract: Despite years of effort, the quantum machine learning community has only been able to show quantum learning advantages for certain contrived cryptography-inspired datasets in the case of classical data. In this note, we discuss the challenges of finding learning problems that quantum learning algorithms can learn much faster than any classical learning algorithm, and we study how to identify such learning problems. Specifically, we reflect on the main concepts in computational learning theory pertaining to this question, and we discuss how subtle changes in definitions can mean conceptually significantly different tasks, which can either lead to a separation or no separation at all. Moreover, we study existing learning problems with a provable quantum speedup to distill sets of more general and sufficient conditions (i.e., ``checklists'') for a learning problem to exhibit a separation between classical and quantum learners. These checklists are intended to streamline one's approach to proving quantum speedups for learning problems, or to elucidate bottlenecks. Finally, to illustrate its application, we analyze examples of potential separations (i.e., when the learning problem is build from computational separations, or when the data comes from a quantum experiment) through the lens of our approach.

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