Generative adversarial network(GAN)is one of the most promising methods for unsupervised learning in recent years.GAN works via adversarial training concept and has shown excellent performance in the fields image synt...Generative adversarial network(GAN)is one of the most promising methods for unsupervised learning in recent years.GAN works via adversarial training concept and has shown excellent performance in the fields image synthesis,image super-resolution,video generation,image translation,etc.Compared with classical algorithms,quantum algorithms have their unique advantages in dealing with complex tasks,quantum machine learning(QML)is one of the most promising quantum algorithms with the rapid development of quantum technology.Specifically,Quantum generative adversarial network(QGAN)has shown the potential exponential quantum speedups in terms of performance.Meanwhile,QGAN also exhibits some problems,such as barren plateaus,unstable gradient,model collapse,absent complete scientific evaluation system,etc.How to improve the theory of QGAN and apply it that have attracted some researcher.In this paper,we comprehensively and deeply review recently proposed GAN and QAGN models and their applications,and we discuss the existing problems and future research trends of QGAN.展开更多
Readout errors caused by measurement noise are a significant source of errors in quantum circuits,which severely affect the output results and are an urgent problem to be solved in noisy-intermediate scale quantum(NIS...Readout errors caused by measurement noise are a significant source of errors in quantum circuits,which severely affect the output results and are an urgent problem to be solved in noisy-intermediate scale quantum(NISQ)computing.In this paper,we use the bit-flip averaging(BFA)method to mitigate frequent readout errors in quantum generative adversarial networks(QGAN)for image generation,which simplifies the response matrix structure by averaging the qubits for each random bit-flip in advance,successfully solving problems with high cost of measurement for traditional error mitigation methods.Our experiments were simulated in Qiskit using the handwritten digit image recognition dataset under the BFA-based method,the Kullback-Leibler(KL)divergence of the generated images converges to 0.04,0.05,and 0.1 for readout error probabilities of p=0.01,p=0.05,and p=0.1,respectively.Additionally,by evaluating the fidelity of the quantum states representing the images,we observe average fidelity values of 0.97,0.96,and 0.95 for the three readout error probabilities,respectively.These results demonstrate the robustness of the model in mitigating readout errors and provide a highly fault tolerant mechanism for image generation models.展开更多
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61572086,No.61402058)the Key Research and Development Project of Sichuan Province(Nos.20ZDYF2324,2019ZYD027 and 2018TJPT0012)+3 种基金the Innovation Team of Quantum Security Communication of Sichuan Province(No.17TD0009)the Academic and Technical Leaders Training Funding Support Projects of Sichuan Province(No.2016120080102643)the Application Foundation Project of Sichuan Province(No.2017JY0168)the Science and Technology Support Project of Sichuan Province(Nos.2018GZ0204 and 2016FZ0112).
文摘Generative adversarial network(GAN)is one of the most promising methods for unsupervised learning in recent years.GAN works via adversarial training concept and has shown excellent performance in the fields image synthesis,image super-resolution,video generation,image translation,etc.Compared with classical algorithms,quantum algorithms have their unique advantages in dealing with complex tasks,quantum machine learning(QML)is one of the most promising quantum algorithms with the rapid development of quantum technology.Specifically,Quantum generative adversarial network(QGAN)has shown the potential exponential quantum speedups in terms of performance.Meanwhile,QGAN also exhibits some problems,such as barren plateaus,unstable gradient,model collapse,absent complete scientific evaluation system,etc.How to improve the theory of QGAN and apply it that have attracted some researcher.In this paper,we comprehensively and deeply review recently proposed GAN and QAGN models and their applications,and we discuss the existing problems and future research trends of QGAN.
基金Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province,China (Grant No.ZR2021MF049)Joint Fund of Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant Nos.ZR2022LLZ012 and ZR2021LLZ001)。
文摘Readout errors caused by measurement noise are a significant source of errors in quantum circuits,which severely affect the output results and are an urgent problem to be solved in noisy-intermediate scale quantum(NISQ)computing.In this paper,we use the bit-flip averaging(BFA)method to mitigate frequent readout errors in quantum generative adversarial networks(QGAN)for image generation,which simplifies the response matrix structure by averaging the qubits for each random bit-flip in advance,successfully solving problems with high cost of measurement for traditional error mitigation methods.Our experiments were simulated in Qiskit using the handwritten digit image recognition dataset under the BFA-based method,the Kullback-Leibler(KL)divergence of the generated images converges to 0.04,0.05,and 0.1 for readout error probabilities of p=0.01,p=0.05,and p=0.1,respectively.Additionally,by evaluating the fidelity of the quantum states representing the images,we observe average fidelity values of 0.97,0.96,and 0.95 for the three readout error probabilities,respectively.These results demonstrate the robustness of the model in mitigating readout errors and provide a highly fault tolerant mechanism for image generation models.
