arXiv:2509.01784physics.opticscs.LG2025-09

用光子干涉构建高效量子神经元,实测表现稳定可靠。

Modeling and benchmarking quantum optical neurons for efficient neural computation

  • 基于马赫-曾德尔和洪欧-曼德尔干涉仪设计光子神经元
  • 马赫-曾德尔结构在噪声下仍保持稳定,性能接近经典模型
  • 适合研究量子计算与类脑计算融合的科研人员

量子光学神经元(QONs)正成为利用光子干涉实现能量高效、物理可解释神经计算的有前景的计算单元。本文基于近期理论提案,提出一类基于洪欧-曼德尔(HOM)和马赫-曾德尔(MZ)干涉仪的QON架构,结合相位、幅度和强度调制策略,生成不同的预激活函数,并将其作为全可微分软件模块实现。我们在孤立状态及多层网络中评估这些QON,使用MNIST和FashionMNIST数据集进行二分类与多分类图像识别任务训练,每项实验重复五次,分别在理想与非理想条件下测试准确率、收敛性与鲁棒性。结果显示,基于MZ的神经元表现出一致稳定性,尤其在噪声环境下;而基于HOM的幅度调制在深层网络中表现良好,部分情形下逼近经典性能。相反,基于相位和强度调制的HOM结构稳定性较差,对扰动更敏感。这些结果表明QON有望成为未来量子启发神经架构与混合光电子系统中的高效可扩展组件。代码已公开于https://github.com/gvessio/quantum-optical-neurons。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Quantum optical neurons (QONs) are emerging as promising computational units that leverage photonic interference to perform neural operations in an energy-efficient and physically grounded manner. Building on recent theoretical proposals, we introduce a family of QON architectures based on Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) and Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometers, incorporating different photon modulation strategies -- phase, amplitude, and intensity. These physical setups yield distinct pre-activation functions, which we implement as fully differentiable software modules. We evaluate these QONs both in isolation and as building blocks of multilayer networks, training them on binary and multiclass image classification tasks using the MNIST and FashionMNIST datasets. Each experiment is repeated over five independent runs and assessed under both ideal and non-ideal conditions to measure accuracy, convergence, and robustness. Across settings, MZ-based neurons exhibit consistently stable behavior -- including under noise -- while HOM amplitude modulation performs competitively in deeper architectures, in several cases approaching classical performance. In contrast, phase- and intensity-modulated HOM-based variants show reduced stability and greater sensitivity to perturbations. These results highlight the potential of QONs as efficient and scalable components for future quantum-inspired neural architectures and hybrid photonic-electronic systems. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/gvessio/quantum-optical-neurons.

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