Towards Transfer Learning for Large-Scale Image Classification Using Annealing-based Quantum Boltzmann Machines

Abstract

Quantum Transfer Learning (QTL) recently gained popularity as a hybrid quantum-classical approach for image classification tasks by efficiently combining the feature extraction capabilities of large Convolutional Neural Networks with the potential benefits of Quantum Machine Learning (QML). Existing approaches, however, only utilize gate-based Variational Quantum Circuits for the quantum part of these procedures. In this work we present an approach to employ Quantum Annealing (QA) in QTL-based image classification. Specifically, we propose using annealing-based Quantum Boltzmann Machines as part of a hybrid quantum-classical pipeline to learn the classification of real-world, large-scale data such as medical images through supervised training. We demonstrate our approach by applying it to the three-class COVID-CT-MD dataset, a collection of lung Computed Tomography (CT) scan slices. Using Simulated Annealing as a stand-in for actual QA, we compare our method to classical transfer learning, using a neural network of the same order of magnitude, to display its improved classification performance. We find that our approach consistently outperforms its classical baseline in terms of test accuracy and AUC-ROC-Score and needs less training epochs to do this.

arXiv comment7 pages, 3 figures (5 if counting subfigures), 1 table. To be published in the proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)

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