Dimensionality Reduction with Variational Encoders Based on Subsystem Purification

Raja Selvarajan, Manas Sajjan, Travis S. Humble and Sabre Kais ()
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Raja Selvarajan: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Manas Sajjan: Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Travis S. Humble: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA
Sabre Kais: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 22, 1-9

Abstract: Efficient methods for encoding and compression are likely to pave the way toward the problem of efficient trainability on higher-dimensional Hilbert spaces, overcoming issues of barren plateaus. Here, we propose an alternative approach to variational autoencoders to reduce the dimensionality of states represented in higher dimensional Hilbert spaces. To this end, we build a variational algorithm-based autoencoder circuit that takes as input a dataset and optimizes the parameters of a Parameterized Quantum Circuit (PQC) ansatz to produce an output state that can be represented as a tensor product of two subsystems by minimizing T r ( ρ 2 ) . The output of this circuit is passed through a series of controlled swap gates and measurements to output a state with half the number of qubits while retaining the features of the starting state in the same spirit as any dimension-reduction technique used in classical algorithms. The output obtained is used for supervised learning to guarantee the working of the encoding procedure thus developed. We make use of the Bars and Stripes (BAS) dataset for an 8 × 8 grid to create efficient encoding states and report a classification accuracy of 95% on the same. Thus, the demonstrated example provides proof for the working of the method in reducing states represented in large Hilbert spaces while maintaining the features required for any further machine learning algorithm that follows.

Keywords: entropy; encoding; quantum machine learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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