arXiv:2603.02958quant-phcs.AI2026-03

用量子退火训练CNN分类器,不依赖梯度,适合当前量子硬件。

Layer-wise QUBO-Based Training of CNN Classifiers for Quantum Annealing

  • 将CNN分类头转为量子退火可解的QUBO问题,避免梯度消失陷阱。
  • 15位精度可在现有量子处理器上运行,20位精度在多个数据集超越传统方法。
  • 适用于图像分类任务,尤其适合资源受限的量子计算平台。

变分量子电路用于图像分类时易遭遇平庸景观,而量子核方法随数据量二次增长。本文提出基于无约束二次布尔优化(QUBO)的迭代框架,通过量子退火训练卷积神经网络(CNN)的分类头,完全规避梯度优化。遵循极限学习机思想,卷积滤波器随机初始化并固定,仅优化全连接层。每轮迭代中,由特征格拉姆矩阵导出的凸二次代理替换非二次交叉熵损失,提供稳定曲率近似。每类输出独立分解为一个QUBO,变量数为$(d+1)K$,其中$d$为特征维度,$K$为比特精度,问题规模取决于图像分辨率与比特精度,而非样本数量。在六个图像分类基准(sklearn digits、MNIST、Fashion-MNIST、CIFAR-10、EMNIST、KMNIST)上评估。精度分析显示,准确率随比特分辨率单调提升,10比特为有效优化的最低要求;15比特方案在当前D-Wave Advantage硬件的量子比特与耦合器限制内。20比特方案在MNIST、Fashion-MNIST和EMNIST上达到或超过经典随机梯度下降性能,在CIFAR-10和KMNIST上仍具竞争力。所有实验采用模拟退火,为直接部署至量子退火硬件提供基线。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Variational quantum circuits for image classification suffer from barren plateaus, while quantum kernel methods scale quadratically with dataset size. We propose an iterative framework based on Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) for training the classifier head of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) via quantum annealing, entirely avoiding gradient-based circuit optimization. Following the Extreme Learning Machine paradigm, convolutional filters are randomly initialized and frozen, and only the fully connected layer is optimized. At each iteration, a convex quadratic surrogate derived from the feature Gram matrix replaces the non-quadratic cross-entropy loss, yielding an iteration-stable curvature proxy. A per-output decomposition splits the $C$-class problem into $C$ independent QUBOs, each with $(d+1)K$ binary variables, where $d$ is the feature dimension and $K$ is the bit precision, so that problem size depends on the image resolution and bit precision, not on the number of training samples. We evaluate the method on six image-classification benchmarks (sklearn digits, MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, CIFAR-10, EMNIST, KMNIST). A precision study shows that accuracy improves monotonically with bit resolution, with 10 bits representing a practical minimum for effective optimization; the 15-bit formulation remains within the qubit and coupler limits of current D-Wave Advantage hardware. The 20-bit formulation matches or exceeds classical stochastic gradient descent on MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, and EMNIST, while remaining competitive on CIFAR-10 and KMNIST. All experiments use simulated annealing, establishing a baseline for direct deployment on quantum annealing hardware.

量子机器学习卷积网络量子退火QUBO

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