提出可扩展的量子神经网络硬件训练方法,实现16-32比特规模临床数据补全。
Scalable On-Hardware Training of Quantum Neural Networks and Application to Clinical Data Imputation

- 设计分层蝴蝶电路结构,梯度计算成本从平方级降至对数级。
- 在16量子比特离子阱硬件上完成训练,32量子比特推理性能媲美经典模型。
- 适合追求可扩展量子机器学习、医疗数据补全的研究者使用。
在量子硬件上训练量子神经网络(QNN)目前受限于梯度估计成本:标准参数偏移法需随可训练参数数量呈二次增长的电路评估次数,使大规模系统优化不切实际。本文提出一种训练框架,将成本降至量子比特数的对数级,使近中期硬件上的梯度优化成为可能。该框架融合三项协同设计:(i) 结构化、保持子空间的蝴蝶电路架构,含 $O(n "log n)$ 参数与对数深度;(ii) 分层训练策略,每次仅在小而结构化的层上进行硬件优化;(iii) 并行化参数偏移规则,利用每层内可交换性,在常数次电路执行中提取所有梯度。整体使每轮优化所需不同电路评估数从 $O(n^2)$ 降至 $O(log n)$。我们在 MIMIC-III 电子病历数据集上验证了该框架在临床数据补全任务中的有效性,该任务对优化稳定性与模型方差敏感。混合经典-量子模型在 16 量子比特离子阱硬件(IonQ Forte Enterprise)上直接训练,性能不逊于理想或噪声模拟;32 量子比特模型通过张量网络仿真训练,32 量子比特推理在硬件上完成。结果模型在患者生存预测任务中表现达或优于强基线经典神经网络,且跨运行方差更低,证明本框架可在真实硬件约束下实现实用、可扩展的 QNN 训练。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Training quantum neural networks (QNNs) on quantum hardware is currently bottlenecked by the cost of gradient estimation: standard parameter-shift methods require a number of circuit evaluations that grows quadratically with the number of trainable parameters, making hardware-based optimisation impractical beyond small system sizes. In this work, we introduce a training framework that reduces this cost to logarithmic in the number of qubits, making gradient-based QNN optimisation feasible on near-term hardware at increasing scales. Our framework combines three co-designed ingredients: (i) a structured, subspace-preserving Butterfly circuit architecture with $O(n \log n)$ parameters and logarithmic depth; (ii) a layer-wise training strategy that confines on-hardware optimisation to one small, well-structured layer at a time; and (iii) a parallelised parameter-shift rule that exploits the commuting structure within each Butterfly layer to extract all gradients in a constant number of circuit executions. Together these reduce the number of distinct circuit evaluations per optimisation step from $O(n^2)$ to $O(\log n)$. We validate the framework on clinical data imputation using the MIMIC-III electronic health record dataset, a demanding benchmark sensitive to optimisation instability and model variance. Hybrid classical-quantum models are trained directly on IonQ Forte Enterprise trapped-ion hardware at 16 qubits without performance degradation relative to ideal or noisy simulation and via tensor-network simulation at 32 qubits, with 32-qubit inference executed on hardware. The resulting models match or exceed strong classical neural baselines in downstream patient survival prediction while exhibiting reduced variance across runs, demonstrating that the proposed framework enables practical, scalable QNN training under realistic hardware constraints.
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