Quantum optical shallow networks

Abstract

Classical shallow networks are universal approximators. Given a sufficient number of neurons, they can reproduce any continuous function to arbitrary precision, with a resource cost that scales linearly in both the input size and the number of trainable parameters. In this work, we present a quantum optical protocol that implements a shallow network with an arbitrary number of neurons. Both the input data and the parameters are encoded into single-photon states. Leveraging the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect, the network output is determined by the coincidence rates measured when the photons interfere at a beam splitter, with multiple neurons prepared as a mixture of single-photon states. Remarkably, once trained, our model requires constant optical resources regardless of the number of input features and neurons.

13 pages, 4 figures; [v2] Acknowledgement changed; [v3] Minor improvements and corrections

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