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Quantum generalisation of feedforward neural networks
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We propose a quantum generalisation of a classical neural network. The classical neurons are firstly rendered reversible by adding ancillary bits. Then they are generalised to being quantum reversible, i.e., unitary (the classical networks we generalise are called feedforward, and have step-function activation functions). The quantum network can be trained efficiently using gradient descent on a cost function to perform quantum generalisations of classical tasks. We demonstrate numerically that it can: (i) compress quantum states onto a minimal number of qubits, creating a quantum autoencoder, and (ii) discover quantum communication protocols such as teleportation. Our general recipe is theoretical and implementation-independent. The quantum neuron module can naturally be implemented photonically.
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The paper proposes a quantum generalisation of classical feedforward neural networks by making classical neurons reversible with ancillary bits and then unitary, allowing coherent processing of quantum inputs. It numerically demonstrates a quantum autoencoder and a network that discovers the teleportation protocol, and sketches a photonic implementation.
Key findings
- The quantum network can be trained by global gradient descent on a cost function based on local Pauli expectation values, and the number of weights grows polynomially in the number of neurons.
- As a quantum autoencoder, it compresses quantum states onto fewer qubits: for inputs \((|00\rangle+|11\rangle)/\sqrt{2}\) and \((|00\rangle-|11\rangle)/\sqrt{2}\), the cost function converged to zero, and qualitatively identical convergence was obtained for other orthogonal 2-qubit inputs and for 3 input qubits with 1 bottleneck qubit.
- For two non-orthogonal inputs and a 1-qubit bottleneck, the cost function does not converge to zero, but training yields an approximately compressing unitary.
- The network discovered the teleportation protocol: after training, testing on 1000 states randomly picked from the Haar measure gave a cost-function distribution with mean \(5.0371 \times 10^{-4}\) and standard deviation \(1.7802 \times 10^{-4}\), described as effectively zero.
Methods
- Theoretical construction: classical feedforward neurons with Heaviside activation are first made reversible by adding ancillary bits, then generalised to unitary quantum neurons; classical copying is replaced by a general 2-qubit “fan-out” unitary \(U_F\).
- Training: global gradient descent on a quantum cost function using local Pauli expectation values, with parameters \(\alpha_{j_1,\dots,j_N}\) in the unitary parametrisation; numerical simulations were run for the autoencoder and teleportation tasks.
- Photonic implementation: a neuron module is designed using the Cerf-Adami-Kwiat protocol, encoding one qubit in polarisation and others in spatial modes, with variable beamsplitters, phase shifters, and polarisation rotators.
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- The paper states it does not prove that convergence to zero cost, where possible, will always take a number of iterations growing polynomially in the number of neurons.
- The paper states that classical simulation of quantum systems is generally inefficient, so efficiency claims refer to physical quantum implementation.
- The paper states the single-photon photonic scheme does not scale well because the number of spatial modes grows exponentially in the number of qubits; it also notes that omitting ancillary qubits can sacrifice classical-mode performance.
- Evident from the text: the demonstrations are numerical simulations, and the data availability statement says this is a theoretical paper with no experimental data beyond the described numerical simulation data.
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“We make the individual neurons reversible and then naturally generalise them to being quantum reversible (unitary).This resolves the classical-quantum clash mentioned above from ref. 24.”
§ Quantum generalisation of feedforward neural networks > INTRODUCTION
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- Supportedcites [24] Schuld, M., Sinayskiy, I. & Petruccione, F. The quest for a quantum neural network. Quant. Inf. Process. 13, 25672586 (2014). source
The Introduction (p. 2) describes a fundamental difference between nonlinear, dissipative neural dynamics and linear, unitary quantum dynamics; Requirements for a QNN model (p. 9) calls their integration a fundamental challenge. The citing authors present reversible neurons as their own proposed resolution. They attribute the clash, not that resolution, to this source. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“In the reversible generalisation, where each neuron is replaced by a permutation matrix, we find that the output is no longer a function of the inputs and continuous weights, but rather of the inputs and a discrete set of permutation matrices.”
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“However when investigating applications of the network we realised that there are scenarios (the autoencoder in particular) where entanglement between different neurons is needed to perform the task.”
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“We demonstrate numerically that it can: (i) compress quantum states onto a minimal number of qubits, creating a quantum autoencoder”
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“Thus the number of evaluations of the cost function for a given iteration of the gradient descent grows polynomially in the number of neurons.”
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“In training with a variety of two possible orthogonal input states including superposition states, the cost function of the quantum autoencoder converged towards zero through global gradient descent in every case, starting with uniformly randomised weights, α j1;:::;jN 2 À1; 1 ½ .”
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“As can be seen, the training was found to be successful, i.e., the cost function converged towards zero.”
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“A fully trained network can teleport the state ψ j i (from Alice) to the output port of qubit 6 (to Bob).”
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“Qualitatively identical graphs of the cost function converging to 0 were also obtained for other examples of 2 orthogonal input states, including for the case of 3 input qubits and 1 bottleneck qubit”
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“Qualitatively identical graphs of the cost function converging to 0 were also obtained for other examples of 2 orthogonal input states, including for the case of 3 input qubits and 1 bottleneck qubit”
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“Figure 2c shows the network learning to compress in the case of two possible inputs: 00 j i þ 11 j i ð Þ = ffiffi ffi 2 p and 00 j i À 11 j i ð Þ = ffiffi ffi 2 p .”
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“A simpler and less general form of U N has been sufficient for the tasks discussed in this paper:”
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“For two non-orthogonal inputs and a 1-qubit bottleneck the cost-function will not converge to zero as is to be expected, but the training rather results in an approximately compressing unitary.”
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“Figure 3b shows the convergence of the cost function during training, simulated on a classical computer.”
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“It is important to note that the number of weights grow polynomially in the number of neurons.”
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“The cost function can be seen to converge to zero, showing that the network has learned to compress the input state onto one qubit and then later recreate the input state.”
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“The cost function can be seen to converge to zero, showing that the network has learned to compress the input state onto one qubit and then later recreate the input state.”
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“The network now teleports any qubit state: picking 1000 states at random from the Haar measure (uniform distribution over the Bloch sphere) gives a cost function distribution with mean 5.0371 × 10 -4 and standard deviation 1.7802 × 10 -4 , which is effectively zero”
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“Given that any unitary matrix U can be expressed as U = e iH , where H is a Hermitian matrix, 20 and that such matrices can be written as linear combinations of tensor products of the Pauli matrices and the identity, it follows that a general N-qubit unitary can be expressed as”
§ Quantum generalisation of feedforward neural networks > Quantum neural networks
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- Not checked yetcites [20] Nielsen, M. A. & Chuang, I. L. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
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“This means that the unitaries can be parametrised by continuous variables, which once again allows the application of gradient descent.”
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“However, in the generalisation to unitaries, for a gate with n inputs and outputs, there exist an infinite number of unitaries, in contrast with the discrete set of permutation matrices.”
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“The generalisation recipe summarised in Fig. 1 also illustrates how any irreversible classical computation can be recovered as a special case from reversible classical computation (by ignoring the dummy and copied bits), which in turn can be recovered as a special case from quantum computation.”
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“We note in the classical mode of operation, where the total density matrix state is diagonal in the computational basis, only σ 3 will have non-zero expectation, and the cost function becomes the same as in the classical case (Eq.( 2)) up to a simple transformation.”
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“The comparison of classical and quantum neural networks is well-defined within our set-up, as the classical networks correspond to a particular parameter regime for the quantum networks.”
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“The same scheme can be used to make quantum generalisations of networks whose generalised neurons have more inputs/outputs and connections.”
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“Moreover they are strict generalisations of the classical networks, providing a clear framework for comparing the power of quantum and classical neural networks.”
§ Quantum generalisation of feedforward neural networks > INTRODUCTION
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“The number of neurons in a given hidden layer for a classical neuron will not exceed j max .”
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“If one wishes the number of free parameters of a neuron to grow no more than polynomially in the number of inputs, one needs to restrict the unitary.”
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“One can force the compressed output to be diagonal in a particular basis by adding an extra term to the cost-function (e.g., desiring the expectation values of Pauli X and Y to be zero in the case of a single qubit will push the network to give an output diagonal in the Z-basis).”
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“The quantum neuron module can naturally be implemented photonically.”
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“This scheme and related ones such as in refs.41, 42 are experimentally viable, theoretically clean and can implement any unitary on a single photon spread out over spatial modes.”
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- Not checked yetcites [41] Reck, M., Zeilinger, A., Bernstein, H. J. & Bertani, P. Experimental realization of any discrete unitary operator. Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 58–61 (1994). source
- Not checked yetcites [42] Clements, W. R., Humphreys, P. C., Metcalf, B. J., Kolthammer, W. S. & Walmsley, I. A. An optimal design for universal multiport interferometers. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08788 (2016). source
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“This is an attractive platform for QIP: it has room temperature operation, the possibility of robust miniaturisation through photonic integrated circuits; in general it harnesses the highly developed optical fibre-related technology for QIP purposes.38”
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Rudolph, T. Why I am optimistic about the silicon-photonic route to quantum computing. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08535 (2016). source
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“A final motivation for choosing this platform is that the tuning can be naturally implemented, as detailed below.”
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“The networks generalise classical neural networks to the quantum case in a similar sense to how quantum computing generalises classical computing.”
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“Moreover optical implementations have been viewed as optimal for neural networks, in the classical case, due to the low design cost of adding multiple connections (as light passes through light without interacting).39”
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- Not checked yetcites [39] Rojas, R. Neural Networks (Springer, 1996). source
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“Then one would sacrifice performance in the classical mode of operation, and the network may not be as good as a classical network with the same number of neurons for all tasks.”
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“The non-monotonic decrease is to be expected as we are varying the input states.”
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“This circuit can be made more robust and miniaturised using silicon or silica optical waveguides.38”
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Rudolph, T. Why I am optimistic about the silicon-photonic route to quantum computing. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08535 (2016). source
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“Conventionally phase shifters built upon the electro-optic effect are known to work in the megahertz region and have extremely low loss.38”
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Rudolph, T. Why I am optimistic about the silicon-photonic route to quantum computing. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08535 (2016). source
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“this may have additional difficulties in that silicon waveguides are birefringent.44”
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- Not checked yetcites [44] Humphreys, P. C. et al. Strain-optic active control for quantum integrated photonics. Opt. Express 22, 21719–21726 (2014). source
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“They have been extensively used to control spatial modes and recently also polarisation.45”
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- Not checked yetcites [45] Sansoni, L. et al. Polarization entangled state measurement on a chip. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 200503 (2010). source
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.
In the paper
“The standard teleportation protocol allows only classical communication of 2 bits 20 ; this is enforced by only allowing two connections, which are dephased in the Z-basis (D).”
§ Quantum generalisation of feedforward neural networks > Quantum photonics neuron module
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- Not checked yetcites [20] Nielsen, M. A. & Chuang, I. L. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
The paper relies on this without support.
Simulation of quantum systems with a classical computer is, with the best known methods, in general inefficient.
“Note also that the statements about the efficiency of the training procedure refer to the physical implementation with quantum technology: the simulation of quantum systems with a classical computer is, with the best known methods, in general inefficient.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Several labs can implement the phase shifting via heaters or the electro-optic effect.
“Several labs can implement the phase shifting via heaters or the electro-optic effect.”
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“Finally, the quantum kernel trick, which means that the dimensions of the quantumenhanced feature space are larger than the number of data sets, has been demonstrated experimentally by using an ensemble nuclear spins [162].”
From Variational quantum algorithms (2021) · cites this paper as [162]
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§ Quantum generalisation of feedforward neural networks > References
“23. Wiebe, N., Kapoor, A. & Svore, K. M. Quantum deep learning. Preprint at https:// arxiv.org/abs/1303.5904 (2015).”
§ Quantum generalisation of feedforward neural networks > References
“36. Hedemann, S. R. Hyperspherical parameterization of unitary matrices. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5904 (2013).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wan, K. H., Dahlsten, O., Kristjánsson, H., Gardner, R., & Kim, M. S.
- Affiliations
- London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (GB)
- Southern University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Dahlsten, Oscar
- Venue
- npj Quantum Information
- Published
- 2017-09-14
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2056-6387 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2560386163
- Semantic Scholar
- d9cfa31d9de66527d719c1511fb2d41b04121dee
- Cited by
- 276
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 41 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 14.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- npj Quantum Information (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2014-055)
- Royal Society
- European Commission (618074)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K034480, EP/K034480/1, K034480/1)
- Division of Mathematical Sciences
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum many-body systems
- Keywords
- quantum neural networks, feedforward neural networks, quantum autoencoders, quantum state compression, quantum teleportation, quantum communication protocols, photonics, gradient descent learning
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