针对量子联邦学习中客户端数据差异,提出个性化量子电路结构选择方法。
PAS-QFL: Personalized Ansatz Selection for Quantum Federated Learning under Client Data Heterogeneity

- 将量子电路拆分为全局共享与客户端私有两部分,分别优化结构与参数。
- 在非独立同分布数据下,平均宏F1提升12.3%,优于固定电路基准。
- 适合处理数据不平衡的量子联邦学习场景,尤其适用于资源受限的边缘设备。
量子联邦学习(QFL)允许多个量子客户端在不共享本地隐私数据的前提下协同训练量子神经网络(QNN)。然而,现有QFL方法通常假设所有客户端使用相同量子电路(ansatz),忽略了客户端数据异构性对电路适用性的影。在类别不平衡的非独立同分布(non-IID)数据下,不同客户端可能偏好不同的电路结构,固定电路会导致性能不稳定且不公平。本文提出PAS-QFL框架,针对客户端数据异构性实现个性化电路结构选择。PAS-QFL将每个客户端的QNN分解为全局共享电路和客户端私有电路,个性化私有电路结构而非仅参数。共享电路优先放置,并通过跨客户端稳定性准则选择,确保参数可可靠聚合;私有电路作为个性化决策头,由本地宏F1指标选择,以适配共享表示到本地数据。训练时,客户端本地更新共享与私有参数,但仅上传共享参数,保持联邦聚合的合理性同时保留私有结构。PAS-QFL采用宏F1作为主要选择指标,避免类别不平衡下的误导性准确率。在异构QFL任务上的实验表明,相比固定电路的基线方法,PAS-QFL在平均宏F1上取得显著提升,验证了个性化电路结构在实际量子联邦学习中的价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Quantum federated learning (QFL) lets multiple quantum clients collaboratively train quantum neural networks (QNNs) without sharing private local data. However, existing QFL methods commonly assume that all clients use the same ansatz, overlooking how heterogeneous client data affects ansatz suitability. Under class-imbalanced non-IID data, different clients may favor different ansatz structures, so a fixed ansatz can lead to unstable and unfair performance across clients. In this paper, we propose PAS-QFL, a Personalized Ansatz Selection framework for QFL under client data heterogeneity. Rather than treating the ansatz as a monolithic structure, PAS-QFL decomposes each client QNN into a globally shared ansatz and a client-specific private ansatz, and personalizes the structure of the private ansatz rather than only its parameters. The shared ansatz is placed first and selected by a stability-aware cross-client criterion so that its parameters can be reliably aggregated, while the private ansatz serves as a personalized decision head, selected per client by local Macro-F1 to adapt the shared representation to its local data. During training, each client updates both its shared and private parameters locally but uploads only the shared parameters, so federated aggregation stays well-defined while each client keeps its own private structure. PAS-QFL uses Macro-F1 as the primary selection metric to avoid misleading accuracy under class imbalance. Experiments on heterogeneous QFL tasks show that PAS-QFL improves average Macro-F1 over the existing fixed-ansatz QFL baselines, demonstrating the value of personalizing the ansatz structure for practical QFL.
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