Quantum scientists embrace machine learning to push research and application - Inside The Perimeter

The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in quantum machine learning to accelerate scientific discovery in a range of fields, from quantum computing to the development of new materials and medicines. That effort deepened in July as researchers from industry and academia gathered for the week-long workshop "Machine Learning for Quantum Design" at Perimeter Institute. Conference co-organizer Roger Melko said the conference demonstrated the remarkable progress researchers have made in just a few years since the previous gathering of its kind at Perimeter. "We first had this conference on quantum machine learning three years ago, and it was largely blue-sky proposals and ideas back then," he said. "Now, the scientists here are actually implementing those ideas. The field is changing fast and the pace of that change is accelerating."