Hardware
The Inductive Bias of Quantum Kernels
It has been hypothesized that quantum computers may lend themselves well to applications in machine learning. In the present work, we analyze function classes defined via quantum kernels. Quantum computers offer the possibility to efficiently compute inner products of exponentially large density operators that are classically hard to compute.
The Inductive Bias of Quantum Kernels
It has been hypothesized that quantum computers may lend themselves well to applications in machine learning. In the present work, we analyze function classes defined via quantum kernels. Quantum computers offer the possibility to efficiently compute inner products of exponentially large density operators that are classically hard to compute.
QVAE-Mole: The Quantum VAE with Spherical Latent Variable Learning for 3-D Molecule Generation
Molecule generation ideally in its 3-D form has enjoyed wide applications in material, chemistry, life science, etc. We propose the first quantum parametric circuit for 3-D molecule generation for its potential quantum advantage especially considering the arrival of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. We choose the Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) scheme for its simplicity and one-shot generation ability, which we believe is more quantum-friendly compared with the auto-regressive generative models or diffusion models as used in classic approaches. Specifically, we present a quantum encoding scheme designed for 3-D molecules with qubits complexity O(C log n) (n is the number of atoms) and adopt a von Mises-Fisher (vMF) distributed latent space to meet the inherent coherence of the quantum system.
A Experimental Setup in Detail
We implement our attack framework using Python 3.7.3 and PyTorch 1.7.1 We run our experiments on a machine equipped with Intel i5-8400 2.80GHz 6-core processors, 16 GB of RAM, and four Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPUs. To compute the Hessian trace, we use a virtual machine equipped with Intel E5-2686v4 2.30GHz 8-core processors, 64 GB of RAM, and an Nvidia Tesla V100 GPU. For all our attacks in 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.5, we use symmetric quantization for the weights and asymmetric quantization for the activation--a default configuration in many deep learning frameworks supporting quantization. Quantization granularity is layer-wise for both the weights and activation. In 4.4 where we examine the transferability of our attacks, we use the same quantization granularity that the original studies describe [Choukroun et al., 2019, Zhao et al., 2019, Banner et al., 2019] while re-training clean models.
Differentiable Analog Quantum Computing for Optimization and Control
We formulate the first differentiable analog quantum computing framework with specific parameterization design at the analog signal (pulse) level to better exploit near-term quantum devices via variational methods. We further propose a scalable approach to estimate the gradients of quantum dynamics using a forward pass with Monte Carlo sampling, which leads to a quantum stochastic gradient descent algorithm for scalable gradient-based training in our framework. Applying our framework to quantum optimization and control, we observe a significant advantage of differentiable analog quantum computing against SOTAs based on parameterized digital quantum circuits by orders of magnitude.
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A Appendix
A.1 Latency prediction model A.1.1 Hardware Latency In order to build our latency prediction model, We test three types of hardware devices, NVIDIA V100, NVIDIA GTX 2080, and NVIDIA GTX 1080. Their respective properties are presented in Table 6. It shows that the server GPU V100 is the most powerful hardware device with the most processing engines (#PE). Therefore, the computation with quadratic memory complexity, e.g., self-attention, could easily fall into a memory-bounded operation on V100 because of its high parallelism. The latency of a candidate block is predicted according to the following three steps. Calculating the input and output shapes is the first step in determining an operation's latency.
WildPPG: A Real-World PPG Dataset of Long Continuous Recordings
Reflective photoplethysmography (PPG) has become the default sensing technique in wearable devices to monitor cardiac activity via a person's heart rate (HR). However, PPG-based HR estimates can be substantially impacted by factors such as the wearer's activities, sensor placement and resulting motion artifacts, as well as environmental characteristics such as temperature and ambient light. These and other factors can significantly impact and decrease HR prediction reliability. In this paper, we show that state-of-the-art HR estimation methods struggle when processing representative data from everyday activities in outdoor environments, likely because they rely on existing datasets that captured controlled conditions. We introduce a novel multimodal dataset and benchmark results for continuous PPG recordings during outdoor activities from 16 participants over 13.5 hours, captured from four wearable sensors, each worn at a different location on the body, totaling 216 hours. Our recordings include accelerometer, temperature, and altitude data, as well as a synchronized Lead I-based electrocardiogram for ground-truth HR references. Participants completed a round trip from Zurich to Jungfraujoch, a tall mountain in Switzerland over the course of one day. The trip included outdoor and indoor activities such as walking, hiking, stair climbing, eating, drinking, and resting at various temperatures and altitudes (up to 3,571 m above sea level) as well as using cars, trains, cable cars, and lifts for transport--all of which impacted participants' physiological dynamics. We also present a novel method that estimates HR values more robustly in such real-world scenarios than existing baselines.