Google Accelerates Quantum Computation with Classical Machine Learning

Tech giant Google's recent claim regarding quantum supremacy created a buzz in the computer science community and got global mainstream media talking about quantum computing breakthroughs. Yesterday Google fed the public's growing interest in the topic with a blog post introducing a study on improving quantum computation using classical machine learning. The qubit is the most basic constituent of quantum computing, and also poses one of the most significant challenges for the realization of near-term quantum computers. Various characteristics of qubits have made it challenging to control them. Google AI explains that issues such as imperfections in the control electronics can "impact the fidelity of the computation and thus limit the applications of near-term quantum devices."