arXiv:2608.06846quant-phcs.AI2026-08

量子电路嵌入能否提升经典数据上的跨模态分类?实验显示无稳定优势。

Investigating Quantum-Embedded Transformers on Classical Datasets for Cross-Modality Classification

  • 用可学习投影器将特征转为量子角度,经浅层量子电路映射后由注意力解码
  • 在乳腺癌等数据集上,量子电路未显著提升准确率或稳定性,4个对比中仅1个正向差异
  • 强调控制变量的重要性,提醒勿过早归功于量子组件

我们测试参数化量子电路(PQC)是否能提升混合量子-经典模型在经典数据集上的性能,采用接口匹配的古典映射作为对照,其余组件保持不变。架构Quantum-Embedded Attention(QEA)通过可学习投影器将主干特征压缩为n_q维角度向量,利用浅层PQC映射至一、二体泡利期望值,并由经典注意力解码器输出类别逻辑值。假设量子电路能提升准确率或种子间稳定性。在乳腺癌威斯康星数据集上,以n_q∈{4,8}进行2×2因子设计,每单元独立替换PQC为古典映射、注意力解码器为线性头,共五组配对种子。四组量子减古典95%置信区间中有三组包含零;第四组在n_q=4时有+1.63个百分点差异,但在n_q=8时符号反转,且经多重校正后不显著。实验表明量子电路无一致贡献,无法确立等效性。五数据集跨模态网格显示,在AG~News、乳腺癌威斯康星和BirdCLEF上表现相当,但CIFAR-10存在明显劣势;这些单元非接口匹配,仅作描述性分析。报告所有计划内基准运行,区分当前泡利读出结果与旧概率读出实验,并分析瓶颈、模拟、有限采样及噪声限制。结果未建立量子优势,凸显在归因性能前需严格控制组件影响。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We test whether a parameterized quantum circuit (PQC) improves a hybrid quantum-classical model's performance on classical datasets, using an interface-matched classical map as the control while holding all other components fixed. Our architecture, Quantum-Embedded Attention (QEA), uses a learnable projector to compress backbone features into an $n_q$-dimensional angle vector, a shallow PQC to map those angles to one- and two-qubit Pauli expectations, and a classical attention decoder to produce class logits. We hypothesized the PQC would improve accuracy or seed-to-seed stability over a classical map with matched input/output dimensions. We test this with an interface-matched $2\times2$ factorial on Breast Cancer Wisconsin at $n_q\in\{4,8\}$, independently swapping the PQC for a classical map and the attention decoder for a linear head, across five paired seeds per cell. Three of four paired quantum-minus-classical $95\%$ confidence intervals include zero; the fourth, a $+1.63$ percentage-point contrast for the attention decoder at $n_q=4$, reverses sign at $n_q=8$ and does not survive correction across the four contrasts. The experiment thus shows no consistent PQC contribution and cannot establish equivalence. A five-dataset cross-modality grid shows comparable accuracy on AG~News, Breast Cancer Wisconsin, and BirdCLEF but a large deficit on CIFAR-10; these cells are not interface-matched and are interpreted descriptively. We report all planned canonical runs, distinguish current Pauli-readout results from legacy probability-readout experiments, and analyze bottleneck, simulation, finite-shot, and noise limitations. The results do not establish a quantum advantage; they demonstrate why controlled component attribution is necessary before crediting a hybrid model's performance to its quantum layer.

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