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We compare the performance of randomized classical and quantum neural networks (NNs) as well as classical and quantum-classical hybrid convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the task of supervised binary image classification. We keep the…

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The ability to train ever-larger neural networks brings artificial intelligence to the forefront of scientific and technical discoveries. However, their exponentially increasing size creates a proportionally greater demand for energy and…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

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With near-term quantum devices available and the race for fault-tolerant quantum computers in full swing, researchers became interested in the question of what happens if we replace a supervised machine learning model with a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Maria Schuld

Quantum machine learning techniques have been proposed as a way to potentially enhance performance in machine learning applications. In this paper, we introduce two new quantum methods for neural networks. The first one is a quantum…

Even the most sophisticated artificial neural networks are built by aggregating substantially identical units called neurons. A neuron receives multiple signals, internally combines them, and applies a non-linear function to the resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-01 Yudong Cao , Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

In this thesis, we investigate whether quantum algorithms can be used in the field of machine learning for both long and near term quantum computers. We will first recall the fundamentals of machine learning and quantum computing and then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Jonas Landman

While neural network binary classifiers are often evaluated on metrics such as Accuracy and $F_1$-Score, they are commonly trained with a cross-entropy objective. How can this training-evaluation gap be addressed? While specific techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Nathan Tsoi , Kate Candon , Deyuan Li , Yofti Milkessa , Marynel Vázquez

Binary Neural Network (BNN) converts full-precision weights and activations into their extreme 1-bit counterparts, making it particularly suitable for deployment on lightweight mobile devices. While binary neural networks are typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Jun Chen , Jingyang Xiang , Tianxin Huang , Xiangrui Zhao , Yong Liu

Binary neural networks (BNNs), where both weights and activations are binarized into 1 bit, have been widely studied in recent years due to its great benefit of highly accelerated computation and substantially reduced memory footprint that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhuo Su , Linpu Fang , Deke Guo , Dewen Hu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Gate-based quantum computations represent an essential to realize near-term quantum computer architectures. A gate-model quantum neural network (QNN) is a QNN implemented on a gate-model quantum computer, realized via a set of unitaries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Laszlo Gyongyosi , Sandor Imre

Hyperparameter optimization can be formulated as a bilevel optimization problem, where the optimal parameters on the training set depend on the hyperparameters. We aim to adapt regularization hyperparameters for neural networks by fitting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Matthew MacKay , Paul Vicol , Jon Lorraine , David Duvenaud , Roger Grosse

This paper proposes ReBNet, an end-to-end framework for training reconfigurable binary neural networks on software and developing efficient accelerators for execution on FPGA. Binary neural networks offer an intriguing opportunity for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Mohammad Ghasemzadeh , Mohammad Samragh , Farinaz Koushanfar

To reduce memory footprint and run-time latency, techniques such as neural network pruning and binarization have been explored separately. However, it is unclear how to combine the best of the two worlds to get extremely small and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Yinghao Xu , Xin Dong , Yudian Li , Hao Su

Binary Neural Networks are a promising technique for implementing efficient deep models with reduced storage and computational requirements. The training of these is however, still a compute-intensive problem that grows drastically with the…

We propose methods to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with both binarized weights and activations, leading to quantized models that are specifically friendly to mobile devices with limited power capacity and computation…

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Binarized neural networks, or BNNs, show great promise in edge-side applications with resource limited hardware, but raise the concerns of reduced accuracy. Motivated by the complex neural networks, in this paper we introduce complex…

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Artificial neural networks have gone through a recent rise in popularity, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields, including image classification, speech recognition, and automated control. Both the performance and…

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Quantum neural networks represent a new machine learning paradigm that has recently attracted much attention due to its potential promise. Under certain conditions, these models approximate the distribution of their dataset with a truncated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Mo Kordzanganeh , Daria Kosichkina , Alexey Melnikov

Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) represent a promising approach in quantum machine learning, paving new directions for both quantum and classical data analysis. This approach is particularly attractive due to the absence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Changwon Lee , Israel F. Araujo , Dongha Kim , Junghan Lee , Siheon Park , Ju-Young Ryu , Daniel K. Park