用混合态原型实现量子增量学习,不扩电路也能加新类。
Quantum Incremental Learning with Mixed State Prototypes

- 用可训练的混合态原型新增类别,不增加量子电路宽度。
- 仅用少量量子比特实现高维特征集中,计算复杂度更低。
- 适合资源受限的量子设备,尤其适合持续学习场景。
增量学习模型需在参数和内存受限下顺序学习新类别,避免灾难性遗忘。在当前的嘈杂中等规模量子(NISQ)时代,尽管量子神经网络在特征映射上具有优势,但硬件限制导致电路宽度受限。传统量子分类器受正交基态数量限制,难以应对持续增长的类别数。为此,我们提出一种基于可训练混合态原型的新型量子增量学习框架。其核心思想是通过添加类别原型而非扩展共享量子主干电路宽度来引入新类。混合态原型具备超越单一纯态的表征能力,且其可分解计算降低了生成成本,并支持便捷的希尔伯特-施密特(HS)距离度量用于分类。仿真结果表明,该模型以最少的量子比特实现高维特征集中,在增量学习任务中表现出更低的计算复杂度和更强的鲁棒性,优于经典基线方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Incremental learning models are required to learn new classes sequentially without catastrophic forgetting, while operating under parameter and memory constraints. In the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era, although quantum neural networks offer advantages in feature mapping, hardware limitations restrict circuit width. Furthermore, traditional quantum classifiers are constrained by the number of orthogonal basis states, limiting their capacity to accommodate a continually growing number of categories. Thus, we introduce a novel quantum incremental learning framework based on trainable mixed-state prototypes. Its original design incorporates new classes by adding class prototypes rather than increasing the circuit width of the shared quantum backbone. The use of mixed-state prototypes is another key contribution, since they have representation capabilities to represent information than a single pure-state prototype. And the decomposable mixed-state calculation provides lower production costs and a convenient Hilbert-Schmidt (HS) distance metric for classification. Simulation results show that our model achieves high-dimensional feature concentration using a minimal number of qubits, while demonstrating lower computational complexity and robust representation in incremental learning tasks compared with classical baselines.
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