用强化学习自动搜索适合量子机器学习的电路结构。
Quantum Architecture Search for Solving Quantum Machine Learning Tasks
- 用强化学习智能探索量子电路架构
- 在鸢尾花和二值MNIST上达到高准确率
- 为量子机器学习提供自动化设计新路径
量子计算利用量子力学原理以区别于经典方法的方式解决计算问题。尽管当前量子硬件仍存在噪声且规模有限,变分量子线路(Variational Quantum Circuits)提供了适合现有设备的抗噪框架。这些线路的性能强烈依赖于其参数化组件的底层架构。因此,识别高效且兼容硬件的量子电路架构——即量子架构搜索(Quantum Architecture Search, QAS)——至关重要。手动进行QAS复杂且易出错,促使人们寻求自动化方案。在多种自动化策略中,强化学习(Reinforcement Learning, RL)在量子机器学习领域仍研究不足。本文提出RL-QAS框架,将强化学习应用于分类任务的电路架构发现。我们在Iris和binary MNIST数据集上评估该方法,结果表明代理可自主发现低复杂度电路设计,并实现高测试准确率。实验显示,强化学习是量子机器学习自动化架构搜索的可行路径。然而,将RL-QAS拓展至更复杂任务仍需进一步优化搜索策略与性能评估机制。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Quantum computing leverages quantum mechanics to address computational problems in ways that differ fundamentally from classical approaches. While current quantum hardware remains error-prone and limited in scale, Variational Quantum Circuits offer a noise-resilient framework suitable for today's devices. The performance of these circuits strongly depends on the underlying architecture of their parameterized quantum components. Identifying efficient, hardware-compatible quantum circuit architectures -- known as Quantum Architecture Search (QAS) -- is therefore essential. Manual QAS is complex and error-prone, motivating efforts to automate it. Among various automated strategies, Reinforcement Learning (RL) remains underexplored, particularly in Quantum Machine Learning contexts. This work introduces RL-QAS, a framework that applies RL to discover effective circuit architectures for classification tasks. We evaluate RL-QAS using the Iris and binary MNIST datasets. The agent autonomously discovers low-complexity circuit designs that achieve high test accuracy. Our results show that RL is a viable approach for automated architecture search in quantum machine learning. However, applying RL-QAS to more complex tasks will require further refinement of the search strategy and performance evaluation mechanisms.
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