Scalable parameterized quantum circuits classifier
Xiaodong Ding, Zhihui Song, Jinchen Xu, Yifan Hou, Tian Yang, Zheng Shan
Abstract
As a generalized quantum machine learning model, parameterized quantum circuits (PQC) have been found to perform poorly in terms of classification accuracy and model scalability for multi-category classification tasks. To address this issue, we propose a scalable parameterized quantum circuits classifier (SPQCC), which performs per-channel PQC and combines the measurements as the output of the trainable parameters of the classifier. By minimizing the cross-entropy loss through optimizing the trainable parameters of PQC, SPQCC leads to a fast convergence of the classifier. The parallel execution of identical PQCs on different quantum machines with the same structure and scale reduces the complexity of classifier design. Classification simulations performed on the MNIST Dataset show that the accuracy of our proposed classifier far exceeds that of other quantum classification algorithms, achieving the state-of-the-art simulation result and surpassing/reaching classical classifiers with a considerable number of trainable parameters. Our classifier demonstrates excellent scalability and classification performance.