Computer Science Colloquium
Matthias C. Caro, MSc
Department of Mathematics, TU Munich, Germany
Generalization bounds for variational quantum machine learning
Tue 10.08.2021, 14:00, 60 minutesJKU, Science Park 3, room HS 19
Abstract
A large body of recent work has begun to explore the potential of parametrized quantum circuits(PQCs) as machine learning models, within the framework of hybrid quantum-classical optimization. In particular, theoretical guarantees on the out-of-sample performance of such models, in terms of generalization bounds, have emerged. Most of these so far focus on how properties of the trainable part of a PQC influence the generalization behavior, the classical-to-quantum data-encoding has received less attention. I will give an overview over these results and then explain our approach towards deriving generalization bounds for PQC-based models that depend explicitly on quantum data-encoding strategy. I will also illustrate two applications: Performance guarantees for trained PQCbased models on unseen data and PQC-design guided by multi-dimensional structural risk minimization.Bio
Matthias C. Caro (https://sites.google.com/view/matthiasccaro) received his Bachelor?s degree in Mathematics from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, in 2016. After one year as a visiting student at St John?s College, Oxford, he then pursued his Master?s degree in Mathematics, which he received from TUM in 2019. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the chair of Mathematical Physics at TUM, supervised by Michael M. Wolf as part of the TopMath Program (https://www.ma.tum.de/en/studies-information/elite-programs/topmath.html). His research focus lies at the intersection of learning theory and quantum information theory: He studies the theoretical limitations and potential of quantum machine learning. Moreover, he is interested in the foundations of classical learning theory and in questions of (Non-)Markovianity in quantum information theory.Invited by Assist.-Prof. Dr. Richard Küng, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Wille
The Computer Science Colloquium is organized by the Department of Coputer Science at JKU, the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI) and the Österreichische Computergesellschaft (OCG).