In plain words: A quantum computer trains a learning network that normally needs slow, approximate steps, letting its units settle into good settings faster. It cut training time and found better settings, and could train fuller, fully connected versions that classical training struggles with.
Abstract · Quantum Deep Learning
In recent years, deep learning has had a profound impact on machine learning and artificial intelligence. At the same time, algorithms for quantum computers have been shown to efficiently solve some problems that are intractable on conventional, classical computers. We show that quantum computing not only reduces the time required to train a deep restricted Boltzmann machine, but also provides a richer and more comprehensive framework for deep learning than classical computing and leads to significant improvements in the optimization of the underlying objective function. Our quantum methods also permit efficient training of full Boltzmann machines and multi-layer, fully connected models and do not have well known classical counterparts.
Nathan Wiebe, Ashish Kapoor, Krysta M. Svore
arXiv:1412.3489 · quant-ph, cs.LG, cs.NE · submitted Dec 10, 2014 · updated May 22, 2015
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