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Quantum Expectation-Maximization Algorithm

Quantum Physics 2020-01-23 v1 Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

Clustering algorithms are a cornerstone of machine learning applications. Recently, a quantum algorithm for clustering based on the k-means algorithm has been proposed by Kerenidis, Landman, Luongo and Prakash. Based on their work, we propose a quantum expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm for Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). The robustness and quantum speedup of the algorithm is demonstrated. We also show numerically the advantage of GMM over k-means for non-trivial cluster data.

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@article{arxiv.1908.06655,
  title  = {Quantum Expectation-Maximization Algorithm},
  author = {Hideyuki Miyahara and Kazuyuki Aihara and Wolfgang Lechner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06655},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 pages, 9 figures