27 research outputs found
Explicability and Inexplicability in the Interpretation of Quantum Neural Networks
Interpretability of artificial intelligence (AI) methods, particularly deep
neural networks, is of great interest due to the widespread use of AI-backed
systems, which often have unexplainable behavior. The interpretability of such
models is a crucial component of building trusted systems. Many methods exist
to approach this problem, but they do not obviously generalize to the quantum
setting. Here we explore the interpretability of quantum neural networks using
local model-agnostic interpretability measures of quantum and classical neural
networks. We introduce the concept of the band of inexplicability, representing
the interpretable region in which data samples have no explanation, likely
victims of inherently random quantum measurements. We see this as a step toward
understanding how to build responsible and accountable quantum AI models
Energy transport and optimal design of noisy Platonic quantum networks
Optimal transport is one of the primary goals for designing efficient quantum
networks. In this work, the maximum transport is investigated for
three-dimensional quantum networks with Platonic geometries affected by
dephasing and dissipative Markovian noise. The network and the environmental
characteristics corresponding the optimal design are obtained and investigated
for five Platonic networks with 4, 6, 8, 12, and 20 number of sites that one of
the sites is connected to a sink site through a dissipative process. Such
optimal designs could have various applications like switching and multiplexing
in quantum circuits.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Adaptive quantum state tomography improves accuracy quadratically
We introduce a simple protocol for adaptive quantum state tomography, which
reduces the worst-case infidelity between the estimate and the true state from
to . It uses a single adaptation step and just one
extra measurement setting. In a linear optical qubit experiment, we demonstrate
a full order of magnitude reduction in infidelity (from to ) for
a modest number of samples ().Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
Sub-universal variational circuits for combinatorial optimization problems
Quantum variational circuits have gained significant attention due to their
applications in the quantum approximate optimization algorithm and quantum
machine learning research. This work introduces a novel class of classical
probabilistic circuits designed for generating approximate solutions to
combinatorial optimization problems constructed using two-bit stochastic
matrices. Through a numerical study, we investigate the performance of our
proposed variational circuits in solving the Max-Cut problem on various graphs
of increasing sizes. Our classical algorithm demonstrates improved performance
for several graph types to the quantum approximate optimization algorithm. Our
findings suggest that evaluating the performance of quantum variational
circuits against variational circuits with sub-universal gate sets is a
valuable benchmark for identifying areas where quantum variational circuits can
excel.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
Experimental single-setting quantum state tomography
Quantum computers solve ever more complex tasks using steadily growing system
sizes. Characterizing these quantum systems is vital, yet becoming increasingly
challenging. The gold-standard is quantum state tomography (QST), capable of
fully reconstructing a quantum state without prior knowledge. Measurement and
classical computing costs, however, increase exponentially in the system size -
a bottleneck given the scale of existing and near-term quantum devices. Here,
we demonstrate a scalable and practical QST approach that uses a single
measurement setting, namely symmetric informationally complete (SIC) positive
operator-valued measures (POVM). We implement these nonorthogonal measurements
on an ion trap device by utilizing more energy levels in each ion - without
ancilla qubits. More precisely, we locally map the SIC POVM to orthogonal
states embedded in a higher-dimensional system, which we read out using
repeated in-sequence detections, providing full tomographic information in
every shot. Combining this SIC tomography with the recently developed
randomized measurement toolbox ("classical shadows") proves to be a powerful
combination. SIC tomography alleviates the need for choosing measurement
settings at random ("derandomization"), while classical shadows enable the
estimation of arbitrary polynomial functions of the density matrix orders of
magnitudes faster than standard methods. The latter enables in-depth
entanglement studies, which we experimentally showcase on a 5-qubit absolutely
maximally entangled (AME) state. Moreover, the fact that the full tomography
information is available in every shot enables online QST in real time. We
demonstrate this on an 8-qubit entangled state, as well as for fast state
identification. All in all, these features single out SIC-based classical
shadow estimation as a highly scalable and convenient tool for quantum state
characterization.Comment: 34 pages, 15 figure
The clustering of risk behaviours in adolescence and health consequences in middle age.
INTRODUCTION: There is increasing interest in the clustering of risk behaviours in adolescence. However, few studies have examined what clusters of risk behaviours exist among adolescents, their early-life predictors, and their associations with later health. METHODS: We analysed data derived from 8754 participants (women 53.3%) in the 1970 British Cohort Study. Latent class analysis was used to identify clusters of risk behaviours at age 16. Regression modelling was then used to examine predictors of clusters and their consequences of risk behaviours and health outcomes at age 42. RESULTS: We identified two latent classes: a risky-behaviour (men: 20.0%, women: 23.6%) and less-risky-behaviour class. Among men, those in the risky-behaviour class were more likely to report smoking, multiple binge drinking, sexual debut before 16, involvement in fights and delinquency than were women. Membership in risky-behaviour class was mainly predicted by sociodemographic and parental risk behaviours and monitoring. The risky-behaviour class at age 16 was associated with the following outcome age 42: smoking status (more strongly among women), excessive alcohol consumption (more strongly among men), worse self-rated health (more strongly among men), and psychological distress (only among women). CONCLUSIONS: Engagement in multiple risk behaviours in adolescence is an important driver of health inequalities later in life. Early life intervention, for example via school-based interventions, may be warranted for favourable lifelong health
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