New quantum neural network designs
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Abstract
Quantum computers promise improving machine learning. We investigated the performance of new quantum neural network designs. Quantum neural networks currently employed rely on a feature map to encode the input into a quantum state. This state is then evolved via a parameterized variational circuit. Finally, a measurement is performed and post-processed on a classical computer to extract the prediction of the quantum model. We develop a new technique, where we merge feature map and variational circuit into a single parameterized circuit and post-process the results using a classical neural network. On a variety of real and generated datasets, we show that the new, combined approach outperforms the separated feature map & variational circuit method. We achieve lower loss, better accuracy, and faster convergence.