Simulating a perceptron on a quantum computer

12/11/2014
by   Maria Schuld, et al.
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Perceptrons are the basic computational unit of artificial neural networks, as they model the activation mechanism of an output neuron due to incoming signals from its neighbours. As linear classifiers, they play an important role in the foundations of machine learning. In the context of the emerging field of quantum machine learning, several attempts have been made to develop a corresponding unit using quantum information theory. Based on the quantum phase estimation algorithm, this paper introduces a quantum perceptron model imitating the step-activation function of a classical perceptron. This scheme requires resources in O(n) (where n is the size of the input) and promises efficient applications for more complex structures such as trainable quantum neural networks.

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