Min-Hsiu Hsieh
Hon Hai (Foxconn) Quantum Computing Research Center
Quantum Machine Learning

Type of Input
Type of Algorithms
CQ
CC
QC
QQ
CQ
QQ
QC
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Linear Equation Solvers
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Peceptron
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Recommendation Systems
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Many Others (such as non-Convex Optimization)
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State Tomography
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Entanglement Structure
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Quantum Control

How could QML achieve better end-to-end runtime?




QML Process




1. Readin
2. Readout
Many Challenges!
3.
Learning Machines
4. Noise
Ongoing Progress:
1.
Readin
Could we find an approximate amplitude encoding (AAE) for real-world datasets with polynomial gates?
Entropy reduction
Ongoing Progress:
1.
Readin

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3.
Learning
Machine
Expressivity
Trainability
Generalization
Learning
Model
"how the architectural properties of a neural network (depth, width, layer type) affect the resulting functions it can compute"
[1] On the Expressive Power of Deep Neural Networks. (ICML2017) arXiv:1606.05336
3.1
Expressivity
\(\geq\)
[1] Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Tongliang Liu, Dacheng Tao. The Expressive Power of Parameterized Quantum Circuits. Physical Review Research 2, 033125 (2020) [arXiv:1810.11922].
3.1
Expressivity



\(\leq\)
\(\geq\)

"How easy is it to find the appropriate weights of the neural networks that fit the given data?"
3.2
Trainability
3.2
Trainability
Barren Plateau problem:

[1] Jarrod R McClean, Sergio Boixo, Vadim N Smelyanskiy, Ryan Babbush, and Hartmut Neven. Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes. Nature communications, 9(1):1– 6, 2018.
3.2
Trainability

Known BP Results

3.2
Trainability
Bad News for QML
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Flat loss landscape.
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Extremely small toleration to noise.
3.2
Trainability
Contribution 1:
BP free architecture

[1] Kaining Zhang, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Liu Liu, Dacheng Tao. Toward Trainability of Deep Quantum Neural Networks. [arXiv:2112.15002]
3.2
Trainability
Binary classification on the wine dataset (N=13)


[1] Kaining Zhang, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Liu Liu, Dacheng Tao. Toward Trainability of Deep Quantum Neural Networks. [arXiv:2112.15002]
3.2
Trainability
Contribution 2:
Initialization Matters

[1] Kaining Zhang, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Liu Liu, Dacheng Tao. NeurIPS 2022.3.2
Trainability
Finding the ground energy of the Ising model (N=15, L=10)


[1] Kaining Zhang, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Liu Liu, Dacheng Tao. NIPS 2022.[1] Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Tongliang Liu, Shan You, Dacheng Tao. On the learnability of quantum neural networks. PRX-Quantum 2, 040337 (2021)[arXiv:2007.12369]
3.2
Trainability
Contribution 3:
Trainability in ERM
\(d\)= \(|\bm{\theta}|\)
\(T\)= # of iteration
\(L_Q\)= circuit depth
\(p\)= error rate
\(K\)= # of measurements
3.2
Trainability
[1] Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Tongliang Liu, Shan You, Dacheng Tao. On the learnability of quantum neural networks. PRX-Quantum 2, 040337 (2021)[arXiv:2007.12369]
\(d\)= \(|\bm{\theta}|\)
\(T\)= # of iteration
\(L_Q\)= circuit depth
\(p\)= error rate
\(K\)= # of measurements
3.2
Trainability
[1] Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Tongliang Liu, Shan You, Dacheng Tao. On the learnability of quantum neural networks. PRX-Quantum 2, 040337 (2021)[arXiv:2007.12369]
3.3
Generalization
"Generalization refers to the model's ability to adapt properly to new, previously unseen data, drawn from the same distribution as the one used to train the model."
[1] S. Arunachalam, A. B. Grilo, and H. Yuen, arXiv:2002.08240 (2020).
3.3
Generalization

Separation between Learning models
3.3
Generalization
Contribution:
"Noisy QNN can efficiently simulate QSQ oracle."
[1] Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Tongliang Liu, Shan You, Dacheng Tao. On the learnability of quantum neural networks. PRX-Quantum 2, 040337 (2021)[arXiv:2007.12369]

3.4
Quantum
Advantage
Any quantum advantage could be achieved using QML?
->No universal quantum advantage.
Qian, Y., Wang, X., Du, Y., Wu, X., & Tao, D. (2022). The dilemma of quantum neural networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
3.4
Quantum
Advantage
How to guarantee problem-dependent quantum advantage using QNN?
->We identify conditions when the expected risk in classification tasks is minimized.
Yuxuan Du, Yibo Yang, Dacheng Tao, Min-Hsiu Hsieh. "Demystify Problem-Dependent Power of Quantum Neural Networks on Multi-Class Classification." Physical Review Letters 131, 140601 (2023)

3.4
Quantum
Advantage
Contribution:
Yuxuan Du, Yibo Yang, Dacheng Tao, Min-Hsiu Hsieh. "Demystify Problem-Dependent Power of Quantum Neural Networks on Multi-Class Classification." Physical Review Letters 131, 140601 (2023)

經典: 1 error per 6 month in a 128MB PC100 SDRAM (2009)
量子: 1 error per second per qubit (2021)

4
Noise
\(\mathcal{C}\): The collection of all parameters
\(\mathcal{A}\): The collection of all possible circuits
\(\mathcal{E}_{\bm{a}}\): The error for the architecture \(\bm{a}\)

[1] Yuxuan Du, Tao Huang, Shan You, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Dacheng Tao. Quantum circuit architecture search: error mitigation and trainability enhancement for variational quantum solvers. npj Quantum Information volume 8, Article number: 62 (2022).
4.1
Error Mitigation

4.1
Error Mitigation
[1] Yuxuan Du, Tao Huang, Shan You, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Dacheng Tao. Quantum circuit architecture search: error mitigation and trainability enhancement for variational quantum solvers. npj Quantum Information volume 8, Article number: 62 (2022).

Hydrogen Simulation+EM
4.1
Error Mitigation
[1] Yuxuan Du, Tao Huang, Shan You, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Dacheng Tao. Quantum circuit architecture search: error mitigation and trainability enhancement for variational quantum solvers. arXiv:2010.10217 (2020).
Could noise become useful in QML?
YES!
4.2
Harnessing Noise
4.2
Harnessing Noise
[Robustness]

[Privacy]


4.2.1
Providing Privacy
Differential Privacy (DP)
Classical DP is well studied; however, Quantum DP is not.
[1] Li Zhou and Mingsheng Ying. Differential privacy in quantum computation. In 2017 IEEE 30th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), pages 249–262. IEEE, 2017.
[2] Scott Aaronson and Guy N Rothblum. Gentle measurement of quantum states and differential privacy. Proceedings of ACM STOC‘2019.
4.2.1
Providing Privacy
Regression+DP
[1] Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Tongliang Liu, Shan You, Dacheng Tao. Quantum differentially private sparse regression learning. arXiv:2007.11921 (2020)

1. The first quantum DP algorithm.
2. Have the same privacy guarantee with the best classical DP algorithm.
3. Huge runtime improvement.
Contribution:
[1] Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Tongliang Liu, Shan You, Dacheng Tao. Quantum differentially private sparse regression learning. arXiv:2007.11921 (2020)
4.2.1
Providing Privacy
Adversarial Attack

[1] Lu et.al, “Quantum Adversarial Machine Learning". [arXiv:2001.00030]
4.2.2
Robustness
Adversarial Robustness

4.2.2
Robustness
2. Depolarizing noise suffices.

Contribution:
1. Explicit relation between p and \(\tau\).
[1]Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Tongliang Liu, Dacheng Tao, Nana Liu. Quantum noise protects quantum classifiers against adversaries. Physical Review Research 3, 023153 (2021). [arXiv:2003.09416].
4.2.2
Robustness
Thank you for your attention!
QML: Challenges and Opportunities
By Lawrence Min-Hsiu Hsieh
QML: Challenges and Opportunities
AQIS 2021
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