arXiv:2608.31117quant-phcs.LG2026-08

量子生成模型训练后泛化能力差,需重新设计训练方法。

"Train classical, deploy quantum" requires rethinking generalization

论文配图:"Train classical, deploy quantum" requires rethinking generalization
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  • 用经典机训练量子生成模型,依赖矩匹配损失优化
  • 实验显示矩匹配模型泛化性能显著低于似然训练模型
  • 适合关注量子模型泛化性与训练策略的科研人员

生成模型在科学与工业中日益重要,从图像文本生成到分子材料设计。量子生成模型被视为量子计算机最有前景的应用之一,因其量子线路天然生成所编码分布的样本,且对某些电路而言该分布被认为经典计算机难以复现。一种主流策略是在经典计算机上训练模型,仅在部署时使用量子设备生成样本。这要求训练损失可在经典机上评估,例如最大均值差异(MMD²)——一种通过保罗尼-Z相关性比较模型与数据的矩匹配损失。现有研究多关注能否训练及采样是否困难,却未深入探讨最小化此类目标是否真正实现泛化。我们通过直接采样基准测试了广泛量子与经典生成模型,发现使用矩匹配损失训练的模型普遍泛化能力较差。实验基于两类应用驱动数据集:最多30量子比特的基数约束数据集,以及基因组单核苷酸变异数据集,其有效集即为观测数据。结果表明,收敛的矩匹配损失并非泛化可靠指标,因此‘经典训练、量子部署’流程需直接针对泛化设计新方法,尚不确定是改进训练目标即可,还是需改变模型架构本身。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Generative models have become central across science and industry, from image and text synthesis to the design of molecules and materials. Quantum generative models are considered one of the most promising applications for quantum computers, since a quantum circuit naturally produces samples from the distribution it encodes, and for suitable circuits that distribution is believed to be hard for any classical computer to reproduce. A leading strategy trains these models on a classical computer and reserves the quantum device for generating samples at deployment. This is possible when the training loss can be evaluated on a classical computer. A prime example is the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD$^2$), a moment-matching loss that compares the model and the data through their Pauli-$Z$ correlations. Research so far has asked whether such models can be trained and whether their sampling is hard; whether minimizing such an objective yields a model that generalizes, rather than one that merely reproduces the training statistics, remains poorly understood. We benchmark a broad set of quantum and classical generative models by direct sampling and show that models trained with a moment-matching loss generally show worse generalization than the likelihood-trained models. We show this on two application-inspired datasets: first a cardinality-constrained dataset at up to $30$ qubits and second a dataset of genomic single-nucleotide variants, whose valid set is the observed data. These results indicate that a converged moment-matching loss is not a reliable measure of generalization, and that train-classical, deploy-quantum workflows will need approaches that target generalization directly, leaving open whether better training objectives suffice or whether the model architectures themselves must change.

量子生成泛化性训练策略

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