用遗传算法自动搜索光量子-经典混合模型,提升准确率与硬件兼容性。
Q-PhotoNAS: Hybrid Quantum Neural Architecture Search Framework on Photonic Devices

- 结合遗传算法与可学习相位编码,联合优化经典与量子组件
- 在手写数字数据集上达99.44%和98.78%准确率,单图推理仅需67ms
- 适合研究光量子计算、量子机器学习的开发者与工程师
光子量子计算是可扩展量子机器学习的有前途平台,但在硬件与优化约束下设计高效混合架构仍具挑战。现有方法依赖人工调参,未能考虑经典预处理、相位编码与光子电路结构间的协同作用,限制了精度与硬件兼容性。本文提出一种面向混合光子量子-经典模型的神经架构搜索框架,结合基于遗传算法的搜索与可学习量子相位编码,系统探索经典与量子组件的联合设计空间。框架编码六组共19个超参数,通过分组交叉、逐基因变异和精英保留演化候选架构,在短训练预算下评估后对最优设计进行完整重训练。在Digits和MNIST两个图像分类基准上,分别取得99.44%和98.78%的最终验证准确率;基于Quandela Ascella光子QPU的第一性原理执行时间估算显示,单图推理分别约需67ms和149ms。量子贡献分析表明,光子层提取了与经典路径正交的非冗余特征,相比纯经典基线带来可测量的准确率提升。结果表明,自动化架构搜索在光子系统中既可行又有效,为量子人工智能在光子设备上的系统化设计探索开辟了道路。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Photonic quantum computing is a promising platform for scalable quantum machine learning, but designing effective hybrid architectures remains challenging under hardware and optimization constraints. Existing approaches rely on manually tuned architectures that fail to account for the collaboration between classical preprocessing, phase encoding, and photonic circuit structure, limiting both accuracy and hardware compatibility. In this paper, we propose a neural architecture search framework for hybrid photonic quantum-classical models that combines genetic algorithm-based search with learnable quantum phase encoding to systematically explore the joint design space of classical and quantum components. Our framework encodes 19 hyperparameters across six gene groups and evolves a population of hybrid architectures using group-based crossover, per-gene mutation, and elitism, evaluating each candidate on a short training budget before full retraining of the best found design. We evaluate our framework on two image classification benchmarks, Digits and MNIST, achieving final validation accuracies of 99.44% and 98.78%, respectively, with first-principles execution time estimates on the Quandela Ascella photonic QPU projecting single-image inference at ~67 ms (Digits) and ~149 ms (MNIST). Our quantum contribution analysis further shows that the photonic layer extracts non-redundant features orthogonal to the classical pathway, providing a measurable accuracy advantage over classical-only baselines. Our results demonstrate that automated architecture search is both practical and impactful for hybrid photonic systems, opening the way for systematic design space exploration of quantum AI on photonic devices.
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