Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Zapata Computing, Inc.

Maria Kieferova

Nathan O Wiebe

Peter D Johnson

Max Radin

A hybrid quantum classical (HQC) computer, which includes both a classical computer component and a quantum computer component, implements improvements to the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) which enable QAOA to be applied to valuable problem instances (e.g., those including several thousand or more qubits) using near-term quantum computers.

Hybrid quantum-classical computer for packing bits into qubits for quantum optimization algorithms

Quantum neural nets, which utilize quantum effects to model complex data sets, represent a major focus of quantum machine learning and quantum computing in general. In this application, example methods of training a quantum Boltzmann machine are described. Also, examples for using quantum Boltzmann machines to enable a form of quantum state tomography that provides both a description and a generative model for the input quantum state are described. Classical Boltzmann machines are incapable of this. Finally, small non-stoquastic quantum Boltzmann machines are compared to traditional Boltzmann machines for generative tasks, and evidence presented that quantum models outperform their classical counterparts for classical data sets.

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Waterloo, Canada

Maria Kieferova