Effect of data encoding on the expressive power of variational quantum-machine-learning models

Maria Schuld, Ryan Sweke, Johannes Jakob Meyer

2021 · Physical review. A/Physical review, A · 678 citations

Quantum computers can be used for supervised learning by treating parametrized quantum circuits as models that map data inputs to predictions. While a lot of work has been done to investigate the practical implications of this approach, many important theoretical properties of these models remain unknown. Here, we investigate how the strategy with which data are encoded into the model influences the expressive power of parametrized quantum circuits as function approximators. We show that one can naturally write a quantum model as a partial Fourier series in the data, where the accessible freq…

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