arXiv:2607.00961quant-phcs.LG2026-07

对比量子计算两种范式,发现连续变量模型更擅长识别晶圆缺陷类型。

Bridging Quantum Computing Paradigms toward Semiconductor Yield: A Controlled CV-versus-DV Comparison on Wafer-Map Defect Classification

  • 用共享卷积主干+可替换头结构,公平比较连续与离散变量量子网络
  • 4个量子模式时连续变量准确率达79.7%,比离散变量高18个百分点
  • 适合研究量子神经网络在半导体良率检测中的实际应用潜力

在工业界实现量子神经网络(QNN)需明确不同量子计算范式适用场景。针对晶圆级缺陷筛查这一提升半导体良率的关键任务,本文在受控条件下对比了主流的连续变量(CV)与离散变量(DV)范式在WM-811K数据集上的表现(八类缺陷)。采用共享卷积主干(约430万参数),仅替换分类头(经典全连接、CV-QNN或DV-QNN),并测试三种规模(3、4、8个量子模式/量子比特)。结果显示,CV头始终优于DV头:4量子模式时准确率为79.7%±1.8,而DV为61.6%±1.4,差距达18个百分点且无重叠。该优势在空间局部化的Edge-Loc类别中尤为显著,其召回率CV为0.66±0.06,而DV始终低于0.05,表明CV能更好捕捉微小空间差异。训练曲线显示DV性能受限于表征能力上限而非优化问题;在光子数截断d=2时,CV的优势源于其结构化层与连续相空间编码特性,非希尔伯特空间维度。在IBM硬件上,DV在浅层电路下表现稳定,仅在深层电路中退化。尽管两类量子模型均未超过经典基线(85.0%),但此控制实验揭示了结构化量子头的增益,并指明未来在噪声抑制与规模扩展后,何种范式可能实现实用优势。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Realizing quantum neural networks (QNNs) in industry requires knowing which quantum computing paradigm suits which task. Motivated by AI accelerators and high-bandwidth memory, where die stacking makes wafer-level defect screening central to yield, we study WM-811K wafer-map defect classification (eight classes), comparing the dominant paradigms, continuous-variable (CV) and discrete-variable (DV), under controlled conditions. To isolate the quantum circuit as the sole variable, a shared convolutional backbone (~4.3M parameters) feeds interchangeable heads (classical dense, CV-QNN, or DV-QNN) as the only structural difference; each quantum head is scaled over three sizes (3, 4, 8 qumodes/qubits). The CV head consistently outperforms the DV head: at four qumodes/qubits it reaches 79.7 +/- 1.8% accuracy versus 61.6 +/- 1.4%, a non-overlapping 18-point gap. The advantage is sharpest on the spatially localized Edge-Loc class, easily confused with Scratch, which CV recovers with recall 0.66 +/- 0.06 while DV fails at every size (<=0.05), showing the structured CV layer better captures fine spatial distinctions between defect types. Training curves show the DV limitation is a representational-capacity ceiling, not an optimization failure; at the Fock cutoff used here (d = 2) the CV advantage reflects two intrinsic properties, a structured, neural-network-analogue layer and continuous phase-space encoding, not Hilbert-space dimensionality. On IBM hardware, DV accuracy holds at shallow depth, degrading only at the deepest circuit. Both quantum heads remain below the classical baseline (85.0%), but the controlled setting isolates where a structured head already helps and, as noise and scale improve, which paradigm can deliver practical advantage.

量子计算缺陷分类晶圆检测量子神经网络

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