Freiburg 2019 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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FM: Fall Meeting
FM 21: Quantum Computation: Algorithms
FM 21.1: Invited Talk
Montag, 23. September 2019, 16:30–17:00, 2006
Generative training of quantum Boltzmann machines with hidden units — •Nathan Wiebe1,3 and Leonard Wossnig2 — 1University of Washington, Seattle, USA — 2University College London, London, USA — 3Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
In this article we provide a method for fully quantum generative training of quantum Boltzmann machines with both visible and hidden units while using quantum relative entropy as an objective. This is significant because prior methods were not able to do so due to mathematical challenges posed by the gradient evaluation. We present two novel methods for solving this problem. The first proposal addresses it, for a class of restricted quantum Boltzmann machines with mutually commuting Hamiltonians on the hidden units, by using a variational upper bound on the quantum relative entropy. The second one uses high-order divided difference methods and linear-combinations of unitaries to approximate the exact gradient of the relative entropy for a generic quantum Boltzmann machine. Both methods are efficient under the assumption that Gibbs state preparation is efficient and that the Hamiltonian are given by a sparse row-computable matrix.