Quantum generative adversarial network for image generation

• DOI: 10.1007/s00371-025-03915-8
• Publication Date: 2025-05-13T14:49:18Z
• Authors: Mohammadsaleh Paj...; Ziwen Pan; Victor S. Sheng
• Keywords: Generative adversarial network

Abstract Quantum machine learning as a field has emerged rather quickly thanks to developments in quantum computing. Of these developments, the one of primary interest is the Quantum Generative Adversarial Network or QGAN which is an enhancement of the familiar GAN to use quantum computation necessary for producing synthetic images. To sum up, based on different types of experiments, QGANs outperformed classical GANs, especially in cases with images such as MNIST and Fashion MNIST datasets. Nevertheless, their capabilities are not fully comprehensible due to existing constraints in quantum systems technology, especially in the NISQ era. In this regard, the current study undertakes a proposed research direction that focuses on improving the resolution of grayscale images that have been produced from the “optdigits” dataset, which contains handwritten digit images. Our work then contrasts this with prior work in terms of FID scores, loss function values, runtime, and the resolution of the images. Further, we extend the work by carrying out the proposed methodology on the FMNIST dataset and provide results to corroborate the efficacy of the proposed technique, besides enabling comparison on the same platform with prior works.