Quantum Autoencoder: An efficient approach to quantum feature map generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19157v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:35:26 GMT
• Title: Quantum Autoencoder: An efficient approach to quantum feature map generation
• Abstract summary: We numerically train the quantum autoencoder on 3 million peptide sequences.<n>We evaluate their effectiveness across multiple peptide classification problems including antihypertensive peptide prediction.<n>Results show that quantum autoencoder learned representations achieve accuracy improvements ranging from 0.4% to 8.1% over Hamiltonian baselines.
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• Abstract: Quantum machine learning methods often rely on fixed, hand-crafted quantum encodings that may not capture optimal features for downstream tasks. In this work, we study the power of quantum autoencoders in learning data-driven quantum representations. We first theoretically demonstrate that the quantum autoencoder method is efficient in terms of sample complexity throughout the entire training process. Then we numerically train the quantum autoencoder on 3 million peptide sequences, and evaluate their effectiveness across multiple peptide classification problems including antihypertensive peptide prediction, blood-brain barrier-penetration, and cytotoxic activity detection. The learned representations were compared against Hamiltonian-evolved baselines using a quantum kernel with support vector machines. Results show that quantum autoencoder learned representations achieve accuracy improvements ranging from 0.4\% to 8.1\% over Hamiltonian baselines across seven datasets, demonstrating effective generalization to diverse downstream datasets with pre-training enabling effective transfer learning without task-specific fine-tuning. This work establishes that quantum autoencoder architectures can effectively learn from large-scale datasets (3 million samples) with compact parameterizations ($\sim$900 parameters), demonstrating their viability for practical quantum applications.

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