arXiv:2511.20941quant-phcs.LG2025-11

融合经典与量子核函数,提升小样本数据的检验准确性与鲁棒性。

Fusion of classical and quantum kernels enables accurate and robust two-sample tests

  • 结合经典核与量子核的互补优势,构建混合检验框架。
  • 在小样本高维数据上,检验功效显著优于传统方法。
  • 适用于临床等样本有限的真实场景,具有强适应性。

两样本检验广泛应用于药物疗效评估和营销策略A/B测试等领域,用于判断两组样本是否来自同一分布。基于核的方法通过将数据嵌入再生核希尔伯特空间(RKHS),无需模型假设即可有效解析高维复杂结构。核的选择对性能至关重要,但小样本情况下如何选核仍不明确。本文提出MMD-FUSE框架,融合经典与量子核,构建新型混合检验策略。该方法利用经典核的领域先验与量子核的强表达能力,实现自适应检测。在多种合成与真实临床数据集上的实验表明:1)经合理调参后,引入量子核的MMD-FUSE在小样本高维数据上持续提升检验功效;2)该混合框架表现出优异鲁棒性,能适应不同数据特征,在各类场景中保持高检验效能。结果表明,量子启发与混合核策略可显著增强统计检验能力,为样本受限的数据分析提供有力工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Two-sample tests have been extensively employed in various scientific fields and machine learning such as evaluation on the effectiveness of drugs and A/B testing on different marketing strategies to discriminate whether two sets of samples come from the same distribution or not. Kernel-based procedures for hypothetical testing have been proposed to efficiently disentangle high-dimensional complex structures in data to obtain accurate results in a model-free way by embedding the data into the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). While the choice of kernels plays a crucial role for their performance, little is understood about how to choose kernel especially for small datasets. Here we aim to construct a hypothetical test which is effective even for small datasets, based on the theoretical foundation of kernel-based tests using maximum mean discrepancy, which is called MMD-FUSE. To address this, we enhance the MMD-FUSE framework by incorporating quantum kernels and propose a novel hybrid testing strategy that fuses classical and quantum kernels. This approach creates a powerful and adaptive test by combining the domain-specific inductive biases of classical kernels with the unique expressive power of quantum kernels. We evaluate our method on various synthetic and real-world clinical datasets, and our experiments reveal two key findings: 1) With appropriate hyperparameter tuning, MMD-FUSE with quantum kernels consistently improves test power over classical counterparts, especially for small and high-dimensional data. 2) The proposed hybrid framework demonstrates remarkable robustness, adapting to different data characteristics and achieving high test power across diverse scenarios. These results highlight the potential of quantum-inspired and hybrid kernel strategies to build more effective statistical tests, offering a versatile tool for data analysis where sample sizes are limited.

统计检验量子机器学习小样本核方法

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