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Using prototype methods to reduce the size of training datasets can drastically reduce the computational cost of classification with instance-based learning algorithms like the k-Nearest Neighbour classifier. The number and distribution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Ilia Sucholutsky , Matthias Schonlau

Quantum neural networks (QNN) have been proposed as a promising architecture for quantum machine learning. There exist a number of different quantum circuit designs being branded as QNNs, however no clear candidate has presented itself as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Samuel A Wilkinson , Michael J Hartmann

Quantum computing is a promising paradigm based on quantum theory for performing fast computations. Quantum algorithms are expected to surpass their classical counterparts in terms of computational complexity for certain tasks, including…

The k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) classification approach is conceptually simple - yet widely applied since it often performs well in practical applications. However, using a global constant k does not always provide an optimal solution, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mark Kibanov , Martin Becker , Juergen Mueller , Martin Atzmueller , Andreas Hotho , Gerd Stumme

Motivated by the mode estimation problem of an unknown multivariate probability density function, we study the problem of identifying the point with the minimum k-th nearest neighbor distance for a given dataset of n points. We study the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Anirudh Singhal , Subham Pirojiwala , Nikhil Karamchandani

Quantum machine learning promises great speedups over classical algorithms, but it often requires repeated computations to achieve a desired level of accuracy for its point estimates. Bayesian learning focuses more on sampling from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Noah Berner , Vincent Fortuin , Jonas Landman

In almost all quantum applications, one of the key steps is to verify that the fidelity of the prepared quantum state meets expectations. In this Letter, we propose a new approach solving this problem using machine-learning techniques.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Xiaoqian Zhang , Maolin Luo , Zhaodi Wen , Qin Feng , Shengshi Pang , Weiqi Luo , Xiaoqi Zhou

A significantly faster algorithm is presented for the original kNN mode seeking procedure. It has the advantages over the well-known mean shift algorithm that it is feasible in high-dimensional vector spaces and results in uniquely, well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-21 Robert P. W. Duin , Sergey Verzakov

Quantum noise fundamentally limits the utility of near-term quantum devices, making error mitigation essential for practical quantum computation. While traditional quantum error correction codes require substantial qubit overhead and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Karan Kendre

Loading classical data into quantum computers represents an essential stage in many relevant quantum algorithms, especially in the field of quantum machine learning. Therefore, the inefficiency of this loading process means a major…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Gabriel Marin-Sanchez , Javier Gonzalez-Conde , Mikel Sanz

The rapid growth of computer vision and increasingly complex image recognition tasks has exposed fundamental computational limitations of classical machine learning models, motivating the exploration of quantum computing as an emerging new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sudip Vhaduri , Ryan Gammon , Sayanton Dibbo

The nearest neighbor (NN) technique is very simple, highly efficient and effective in the field of pattern recognition, text categorization, object recognition etc. Its simplicity is its main advantage, but the disadvantages can't be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-02 Nitin Bhatia , Vandana

We introduce a quantum neural network, QNN, that can represent labeled data, classical or quantum, and be trained by supervised learning. The quantum circuit consists of a sequence of parameter dependent unitary transformations which acts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Edward Farhi , Hartmut Neven

The reverse k-nearest neighbor (RkNN) query is an established query type with various applications reaching from identifying highly influential objects over incrementally updating kNN graphs to optimizing sensor communication and outlier…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Sandra Obermeier , Max Berrendorf , Peer Kröger

We consider the problem of recovering clustered sparse signals with no prior knowledge of the sparsity pattern. Beyond simple sparsity, signals of interest often exhibits an underlying sparsity pattern which, if leveraged, can improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Xiangming Meng , Sheng Wu , Linling Kuang , Defeng , Huang , Jianhua Lu

Data-driven neighborhood definitions and graph constructions are often used in machine learning and signal processing applications. k-nearest neighbor~(kNN) and $\epsilon$-neighborhood methods are among the most common methods used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Sarath Shekkizhar , Antonio Ortega

The quantum hybrid algorithm has become a very promising and speedily method today for solving the larger-scale optimization in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. The unit commitment (UC) problem is a fundamental problem in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jian Liu , Xu Zhou , Zhuojun Zhou , Le Luo

Markov random fields (MRFs) appear in many problems in machine learning and statistics. From a computational learning theory point of view, a natural problem of learning MRFs arises: given samples from an MRF from a restricted class, learn…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-07 Liming Zhao , Siyi Yang , Patrick Rebentrost

Quantum machine learning is a fast-emerging field that aims to tackle machine learning using quantum algorithms and quantum computing. Due to the lack of physical qubits and an effective means to map real-world data from Euclidean space to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Xing Ai , Zhihong Zhang , Luzhe Sun , Junchi Yan , Edwin Hancock

Quantum machine learning, though in its initial stage, has demonstrated its potential to speed up some of the costly machine learning calculations when compared to the existing classical approaches. Among the challenging subroutines,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Amanuel Tamirat Getachew