arXiv:2604.23931quant-phcs.AI2026-04被引 1

对比四种量子电路架构,发现简单结构在表格数据上更高效

Do Quantum Transformers Help? A Systematic VQC Architecture Comparison on Tabular Benchmarks

论文配图:Do Quantum Transformers Help? A Systematic VQC Architecture Comparison on Tabular Benchmarks
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  • 用多层全连接量子电路替代复杂注意力结构,参数少一半仍保持高精度
  • 深度约3时表达能力已达极限,浅层电路已足够覆盖量子态空间
  • 纯量子变压器需归一化,噪声下表现更稳定,适合实际硬件部署

变分量子电路(VQC)是近期量子计算设备上主流的量子机器学习方法,但其在经典表格数据上的最优架构尚不明确。本文系统比较了四种VQC家族:多层全连接(FC-VQC)、残差型(ResNet-VQC)、混合量子-经典变压器(QT)和全量子变压器(FQT),在五个回归与分类基准上的表现。关键发现包括:(i) FC-VQC在使用40-50%更少参数的情况下,达到注意力型VQC 90-96%的R²;在波士顿房价数据集上,其均值R²为0.829,优于同容量的MLP(0.753,3种子平均);(ii) FC-VQC的第4类块间连接提供部分跨标记混合,近似注意力功能,显式量子自注意力仅带来微小提升却显著增加参数量;(iii) 表达能力在电路深度约3时饱和,说明浅层结构已能有效覆盖希尔伯特空间;(iv) 全量子变压器中引入层归一化可提升分类准确率,表明所有操作均为量子时归一化至关重要;(v) 在波士顿房价数据的噪声实验中,FQT在去极化噪声下表现稳健,而QT迅速崩溃。所有结果均通过三个随机种子验证。研究为近中期量子硬件部署提供实用架构指导。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Variational quantum circuits (VQCs) are a leading approach to quantum machine learning on near-term devices, yet it remains unclear which circuit architecture yields the best accuracy-parameter trade-off on classical tabular data. We present a systematic empirical comparison of four VQC families -- multi-layer fully-connected (FC-VQC), residual (ResNet-VQC), hybrid quantum-classical transformer (QT), and fully quantum transformer (FQT) -- across five regression and classification benchmarks. Our key findings are: \textbf{(i)}~FC-VQCs achieve 90-96\% of the $R^2$ of attention-based VQCs while using 40-50\% fewer parameters, and consistently outperform equal-capacity MLPs (mean $R^2{=}0.829$ vs.\ MLP$_{720}$'s $0.753$ on Boston Housing, 3-seed average); \textbf{(ii)}~FC-VQC's Type~4 inter-block connectivity provides partial cross-token mixing that approximates the role of attention -- explicit quantum self-attention yields only marginal gains on most datasets while significantly increasing parameter count; \textbf{(iii)}~expressibility saturates at circuit depth~${\approx}\,3$, explaining why shallow VQCs already cover the Hilbert space effectively; \textbf{(iv)}~LayerNorm on the fully quantum transformer improves classification accuracy, suggesting normalization is important when all operations are quantum; \textbf{(v)}~in our noise study on Boston Housing, FQT degrades gracefully under depolarizing noise while QT collapses. All results are validated across three random seeds. These findings provide practical architectural guidance for deploying VQCs on near-term quantum hardware.

量子机器学习变分量子电路表格数据架构对比

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