Quantum Long Short-Term Memory for Drug Discovery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19852v2
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:06:45 GMT
• Title: Quantum Long Short-Term Memory for Drug Discovery
• Authors: Liang Zhang, Yin Xu, Mohan Wu, Liang Wang, Hua Xu,
• Abstract summary: We present Quantum Long Short-Term Memory (QLSTM), a QML architecture, and demonstrate its effectiveness in drug discovery.<n>We observe consistent performance gains over classical LSTM, with ROC-AUC improvements ranging from 3% to over 6%.<n>QLSTM exhibits improved predictive accuracy as the number of qubits increases, and faster convergence than classical LSTM.
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• Abstract: Quantum computing combined with machine learning (ML) is a highly promising research area, with numerous studies demonstrating that quantum machine learning (QML) is expected to solve scientific problems more effectively than classical ML. In this work, we present Quantum Long Short-Term Memory (QLSTM), a QML architecture, and demonstrate its effectiveness in drug discovery. We evaluate QLSTM on five benchmark datasets (BBBP, BACE, SIDER, BCAP37, T-47D), and observe consistent performance gains over classical LSTM, with ROC-AUC improvements ranging from 3% to over 6%. Furthermore, QLSTM exhibits improved predictive accuracy as the number of qubits increases, and faster convergence than classical LSTM under the same training conditions. Notably, QLSTM maintains strong robustness against quantum computer noise, outperforming noise-free classical LSTM in certain settings. These findings highlight the potential of QLSTM as a scalable and noise-resilient model for scientific applications, particularly as quantum hardware continues to advance in qubit capacity and fidelity.

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