Subtleties in the trainability of quantum machine learning models

• DOI: 10.1007/s42484-023-00103-6
• Publication Date: 2023-05-15T14:39:49Z
• Authors: Supanut Thanasilp; Samson Wang; Nhat Anh Nghiem; Patrick Coles; Marco Cerezo
• Keywords: Quantum Machine Learning; Speedup

Abstract A new paradigm for data science has emerged, with quantum data, models, and computational devices. This field, called machine learning (QML), aims to achieve a speedup over traditional analysis. However, its success usually hinges on efficiently training the parameters in neural networks, field of QML is still lacking theoretical scaling results their trainability. Some trainability have been proven closely related variational algorithms (VQAs). While both fields involve parametrized circuit, there are crucial differences that make one setting not readily applicable other. In this work, we bridge two frameworks show gradient VQAs can also be applied study models. Our indicate features deemed detrimental VQA lead issues such as barren plateaus QML. Consequently, our work implications several proposals literature. addition, provide numerical evidence models exhibit further present VQAs, arising from use dataset. We refer these dataset-induced plateaus. These most relevant when dealing classical here choice embedding scheme (i.e., map between states) greatly affect scaling.