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Permutation-equivariant quantum convolutional neural networks

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Sreetama Das *
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Filippo Caruso
DOI:10.1088/2058-9565/ad8e80delete
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The Symmetric group S-n manifests itself in large classes of quantum systems as the invariance of certain characteristics of a quantum state with respect to permuting the qubits. Subgroups of S-n arise, among many other contexts, to describe label symmetry of classical images with respect to spatial transformations, such as reflection or rotation. Equipped with the formalism of geometric quantum machine learning, in this study we propose the architectures of equivariant quantum convolutional neural networks (EQCNNs) adherent to S-n and its subgroups. We demonstrate that a careful choice of pixel-to-qubit embedding order can facilitate easy construction of EQCNNs for small subgroups of S-n. Our novel EQCNN architecture corresponding to the full permutation group S-n is built by applying all possible QCNNs with equal probability, which can also be conceptualized as a dropout strategy in quantum neural networks. For subgroups of S-n, our numerical results using MNIST datasets show better classification accuracy than non-equivariant QCNNs. The S-n-equivariant QCNN architecture shows significantly improved training and test performance than non-equivariant QCNN for classification of connected and non-connected graphs. When trained with sufficiently large number of data, the S-n-equivariant QCNN shows better average performance compared to S-n-equivariant QNN . These results contribute towards building powerful quantum machine learning architectures in permutation-symmetric systems.
Keywords:
quantum machine learning
variational quantum circuit
equivariant quantum neural network

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Quantum Science and Technology cover
Quantum Science and Technology
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