Pulse-efficient quantum machine learning

Pulse-efficient quantum machine learning

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André Melo1,2, Nathan Earnest-Noble3, and Francesco Tacchino4

1Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 4056, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
2IBM Quantum, IBM Netherlands, Amsterdam, NH 1066 VH, The Netherlands
3IBM Quantum, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA
4IBM Quantum, IBM Research Europe – Zurich, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland

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Abstract

Quantum machine learning algorithms based on parameterized quantum circuits are promising candidates for near-term quantum advantage. Although these algorithms are compatible with the current generation of quantum processors, device noise limits their performance, for example by inducing an exponential flattening of loss landscapes. Error suppression schemes such as dynamical decoupling and Pauli twirling alleviate this issue by reducing noise at the hardware level. A recent addition to this toolbox of techniques is pulse-efficient transpilation, which reduces circuit schedule duration by exploiting hardware-native cross-resonance interaction. In this work, we investigate the impact of pulse-efficient circuits on near-term algorithms for quantum machine learning. We report results for two standard experiments: binary classification on a synthetic dataset with quantum neural networks and handwritten digit recognition with quantum kernel estimation. In both cases, we find that pulse-efficient transpilation vastly reduces average circuit durations and, as a result, significantly improves classification accuracy. We conclude by applying pulse-efficient transpilation to the Hamiltonian Variational Ansatz and show that it delays the onset of noise-induced barren plateaus.

Quantum machine learning (QML) represents one of the most promising areas of application for near-term quantum computers. However, the scale and performances of many QML workflows are currently limited by the noise and imperfect operations present in today’s quantum processors. In this work, we use a newly devised technique, called pulse-efficient transpilation, to reduce the execution time of two popular quantum machine learning algorithms by leveraging hardware-native cross-resonance interactions. We show that this significantly improves the prediction accuracy of quantum neural networks and quantum kernel methods on both synthetic and real-world datasets, whilst requiring no additional overhead or calibrations on the user side. Our error suppression protocols can also be used to limit the impact of noise-induced barren plateaus, a well known threat to the trainability of QML models.

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