17 research outputs found
A quantum Jensen-Shannon graph kernel for unattributed graphs
In this paper, we use the quantum Jensen-Shannon divergence as a means of measuring the information theoretic dissimilarity of graphs and thus develop a novel graph kernel. In quantum mechanics, the quantum Jensen-Shannon divergence can be used to measure the dissimilarity of quantum systems specified in terms of their density matrices. We commence by computing the density matrix associated with a continuous-time quantum walk over each graph being compared. In particular, we adopt the closed form solution of the density matrix introduced in Rossi et al. (2013) [27,28] to reduce the computational complexity and to avoid the cumbersome task of simulating the quantum walk evolution explicitly. Next, we compare the mixed states represented by the density matrices using the quantum Jensen-Shannon divergence. With the quantum states for a pair of graphs described by their density matrices to hand, the quantum graph kernel between the pair of graphs is defined using the quantum Jensen-Shannon divergence between the graph density matrices. We evaluate the performance of our kernel on several standard graph datasets from both bioinformatics and computer vision. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed quantum graph kernel
HAQJSK: Hierarchical-Aligned Quantum Jensen-Shannon Kernels for Graph Classification
In this work, we propose a family of novel quantum kernels, namely the
Hierarchical Aligned Quantum Jensen-Shannon Kernels (HAQJSK), for un-attributed
graphs. Different from most existing classical graph kernels, the proposed
HAQJSK kernels can incorporate hierarchical aligned structure information
between graphs and transform graphs of random sizes into fixed-sized aligned
graph structures, i.e., the Hierarchical Transitive Aligned Adjacency Matrix of
vertices and the Hierarchical Transitive Aligned Density Matrix of the
Continuous-Time Quantum Walk (CTQW). For a pair of graphs to hand, the
resulting HAQJSK kernels are defined by measuring the Quantum Jensen-Shannon
Divergence (QJSD) between their transitive aligned graph structures. We show
that the proposed HAQJSK kernels not only reflect richer intrinsic global graph
characteristics in terms of the CTQW, but also address the drawback of
neglecting structural correspondence information arising in most existing
R-convolution kernels. Furthermore, unlike the previous Quantum Jensen-Shannon
Kernels associated with the QJSD and the CTQW, the proposed HAQJSK kernels can
simultaneously guarantee the properties of permutation invariant and positive
definiteness, explaining the theoretical advantages of the HAQJSK kernels.
Experiments indicate the effectiveness of the proposed kernels
A novel entropy-based graph signature from the average mixing matrix
In this paper, we propose a novel entropic signature for graphs, where we probe the graphs by means of continuous-time quantum walks. More precisely, we characterise the structure of a graph through its average mixing matrix. The average mixing matrix is a doubly-stochastic matrix that encapsulates the time-averaged behaviour of a continuous-time quantum walk on the graph, i.e., the ij-th element of the average mixing matrix represents the time-averaged transition probability of a continuous-time quantum walk from the vertex vi to the vertex vj. With this matrix to hand, we can associate a probability distribution with each vertex of the graph. We define a novel entropic signature by concatenating the average Shannon entropy of these probability distributions with their Jensen-Shannon divergence. We show that this new entropic measure can encaspulate the rich structural information of the graphs, thus allowing to discriminate between different structures. We explore the proposed entropic measure on several graph datasets abstracted from bioinformatics databases and we compare it with alternative entropic signatures in the literature. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our method
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Quantum walk neural networks with feature dependent coins
Recent neural networks designed to operate on graph-structured data have proven effective in many domains. These graph neural networks often diffuse information using the spatial structure of the graph. We propose a quantum walk neural network that learns a diffusion operation that is not only dependent on the geometry of the graph but also on the features of the nodes and the learning task. A quantum walk neural network is based on learning the coin operators that determine the behavior of quantum random walks, the quantum parallel to classical random walks. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on multiple classification and regression tasks at both node and graph levels
QESK: Quantum-based Entropic Subtree Kernels for Graph Classification
In this paper, we propose a novel graph kernel, namely the Quantum-based
Entropic Subtree Kernel (QESK), for Graph Classification. To this end, we
commence by computing the Average Mixing Matrix (AMM) of the Continuous-time
Quantum Walk (CTQW) evolved on each graph structure. Moreover, we show how this
AMM matrix can be employed to compute a series of entropic subtree
representations associated with the classical Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) algorithm.
For a pair of graphs, the QESK kernel is defined by computing the
exponentiation of the negative Euclidean distance between their entropic
subtree representations, theoretically resulting in a positive definite graph
kernel. We show that the proposed QESK kernel not only encapsulates complicated
intrinsic quantum-based structural characteristics of graph structures through
the CTQW, but also theoretically addresses the shortcoming of ignoring the
effects of unshared substructures arising in state-of-the-art R-convolution
graph kernels. Moreover, unlike the classical R-convolution kernels, the
proposed QESK can discriminate the distinctions of isomorphic subtrees in terms
of the global graph structures, theoretically explaining the effectiveness.
Experiments indicate that the proposed QESK kernel can significantly outperform
state-of-the-art graph kernels and graph deep learning methods for graph
classification problems
Quantum kernels for unattributed graphs using discrete-time quantum walks
In this paper, we develop a new family of graph kernels where the graph structure is probed by means of a discrete-time quantum walk. Given a pair of graphs, we let a quantum walk evolve on each graph and compute a density matrix with each walk. With the density matrices for the pair of graphs to hand, the kernel between the graphs is defined as the negative exponential of the quantum Jensen–Shannon divergence between their density matrices. In order to cope with large graph structures, we propose to construct a sparser version of the original graphs using the simplification method introduced in Qiu and Hancock (2007). To this end, we compute the minimum spanning tree over the commute time matrix of a graph. This spanning tree representation minimizes the number of edges of the original graph while preserving most of its structural information. The kernel between two graphs is then computed on their respective minimum spanning trees. We evaluate the performance of the proposed kernels on several standard graph datasets and we demonstrate their effectiveness and efficiency
Negational symmetry of quantum neural networks for binary pattern classification
Although quantum neural networks (QNNs) have shown promising results in solving simple machine
learning tasks recently, the behavior of QNNs in binary pattern classification is still underexplored. In
this work, we find that QNNs have an Achilles’ heel in binary pattern classification. To illustrate this
point, we provide a theoretical insight into the properties of QNNs by presenting and analyzing a new
form of symmetry embedded in a family of QNNs with full entanglement, which we term negational symmetry. Due to negational symmetry, QNNs can not differentiate between a quantum binary signal and its
negational counterpart. We empirically evaluate the negational symmetry of QNNs in binary pattern classification tasks using Google’s quantum computing framework. Both theoretical and experimental results
suggest that negational symmetry is a fundamental property of QNNs, which is not shared by classical
models. Our findings also imply that negational symmetry is a double-edged sword in practical quantum
applications
Designing labeled graph classifiers by exploiting the R\'enyi entropy of the dissimilarity representation
Representing patterns as labeled graphs is becoming increasingly common in
the broad field of computational intelligence. Accordingly, a wide repertoire
of pattern recognition tools, such as classifiers and knowledge discovery
procedures, are nowadays available and tested for various datasets of labeled
graphs. However, the design of effective learning procedures operating in the
space of labeled graphs is still a challenging problem, especially from the
computational complexity viewpoint. In this paper, we present a major
improvement of a general-purpose classifier for graphs, which is conceived on
an interplay between dissimilarity representation, clustering,
information-theoretic techniques, and evolutionary optimization algorithms. The
improvement focuses on a specific key subroutine devised to compress the input
data. We prove different theorems which are fundamental to the setting of the
parameters controlling such a compression operation. We demonstrate the
effectiveness of the resulting classifier by benchmarking the developed
variants on well-known datasets of labeled graphs, considering as distinct
performance indicators the classification accuracy, computing time, and
parsimony in terms of structural complexity of the synthesized classification
models. The results show state-of-the-art standards in terms of test set
accuracy and a considerable speed-up for what concerns the computing time.Comment: Revised versio