Supervised Learning with Quantum Computers

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Maria Schuld, Francesco Petruccione

   Pages 1-19

3. Machine Learning

   • Maria Schuld, Francesco Petruccione

   Pages 21-73

4. Quantum Information

   • Maria Schuld, Francesco Petruccione

   Pages 75-125

5. Quantum Advantages

   • Maria Schuld, Francesco Petruccione

   Pages 127-137

6. Information Encoding

   • Maria Schuld, Francesco Petruccione

   Pages 139-171

7. Quantum Computing for Inference

   • Maria Schuld, Francesco Petruccione

   Pages 173-210

8. Quantum Computing for Training

   • Maria Schuld, Francesco Petruccione

   Pages 211-245

9. Learning with Quantum Models

   • Maria Schuld, Francesco Petruccione

   Pages 247-272

10. Prospects for Near-Term Quantum Machine Learning

    • Maria Schuld, Francesco Petruccione

    Pages 273-279

11. Back Matter

    Pages 281-287

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Quantum machine learning investigates how quantum computers can be used for data-driven prediction and decision making. The books summarises and conceptualises ideas of this relatively young discipline for an audience of computer scientists and physicists from a graduate level upwards. It aims at providing a starting point for those new to the field, showcasing a toy example of a quantum machine learning algorithm and providing a detailed introduction of the two parent disciplines. For more advanced readers, the book discusses topics such as data encoding into quantum states, quantum algorithms and routines for inference and optimisation, as well as the construction and analysis of genuine ``quantum learning models''. A special focus lies on supervised learning, and applications for near-term quantum devices.

• quantum phase estimation
• quantum walks
• quantum annealing
• hidden Markov models
• belief nets
• Boltzmann machines
• adiabatic quantum computing
• Grover search
• Hopfield models
• Quantum inference
• Artificial neural network
• near term application
• Quantum machine learning
• data driven prediction
• Qsample encoding
• quantum gates
• Deutsch-Josza algorithm
• Kernel methods
• quantum blas

“The book is very well written and contains sufficiently many examples and illustrations. The authors make a concerted effort to make the material accessible to both computer science graduates as well as scientists with a quantum physics background. … The intended audience are thus machine learning scientists that want to explore the quantum approach to their discipline or quantum information scientists that want to enter the field of machine learning.” (Andreas Maletti, zbMATH 1411.81008, 2019)

• School of Chemistry and Physics, Quantum Research Group, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  Maria Schuld

• School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  Francesco Petruccione

Francesco Petruccione received his PhD (1988) and ”Habilitation” (1994) from the University of Freiburg, Germany. Since 2004 he is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, Africa, where in 2007 he was granted a South African Research Chair for Quantum Information Processing and Communication from the National Research Foundation. He is the co-author of “The theory of open quantum systems” (Oxford University Press, 2002) and has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals, adding up to more than 7000 citations. Francesco Petruccione’s research focusses on quantum information and open quantum systems.


Maria Schuld received her PhD degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa in 2017 as a fellow of the German Academic Foundation. Her Master’s degree was awarded by the Technical University of Berlin and supported through a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Since 2013 she dedicates her research to the design of quantum machine learning algorithms, which she presented at numerous international conferences and in a range of research articles. Maria Schuld is a Post-Doc at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and works as a researcher for the Canadian-based quantum computing startup Xanadu.

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