Browsing by Subject "Boltzmann machine"

Quantum computing has an enormous potential in machine learning, where problems can quickly scale to be intractable for classical computation. A Boltzmann machine is a well-known energy-based graphical model suitable for various machine learning tasks. Plenty of work has already been conducted for realizing Boltzmann machines in quantum computing, all of which have somewhat different characteristics. In this thesis, we conduct a survey of the state-of-the-art in quantum Boltzmann machines and their training approaches. Primarily, we examine variational quantum Boltzmann machine, a specific variant of quantum Boltzmann machine suitable for the near-term quantum hardware. Moreover, as variational quantum Boltzmann machine heavily relies on variational quantum imaginary time evolution, we effectively analyze variational quantum imaginary time evolution to a great extent. Compared to the previous work, we evaluate the execution of variational quantum imaginary time evolution with a more comprehensive collection of hyperparameters. Furthermore, we train variational quantum Boltzmann machines using a toy problem of bars and stripes, representing more multimodal probability distribution than the Bell states and the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states considered in the earlier studies.