On quantum ensembles of quantum classifiers

Abstract

Quantum machine learning seeks to exploit the underlying nature of a quantum computer to enhance machine learning techniques. A particular framework uses the quantum property of superposition to store sets of parameters, thereby creating an ensemble of quantum classifiers that may be computed in parallel. The idea stems from classical ensemble methods where one attempts to build a stronger model by averaging the results from many different models. In this work, we demonstrate that a specific implementation of the quantum ensemble of quantum classifiers, called the accuracy-weighted quantum ensemble, can be fully dequantised. On the other hand, the general quantum ensemble framework is shown to contain the well-known Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm that notably provides a quantum speedup and creates the potential for a useful quantum ensemble to harness this computational advantage.

arXiv comment8 pages, 5 figures

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