David Peral-García, Juan Cruz-Benito, et al.
Expert Systems with Applications
The state-of-the-art machine learning approaches are based on classical von Neumann computing architectures and have been widely used in many industrial and academic domains. With the recent development of quantum computing, researchers and tech-giants have attempted new quantum circuits for machine learning tasks. However, the existing quantum computing platforms are hard to simulate classical deep learning models or problems because of the intractability of deep quantum circuits. Thus, it is necessary to design feasible quantum algorithms for quantum machine learning for noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices. This work explores variational quantum circuits for deep reinforcement learning. Specifically, we reshape classical deep reinforcement learning algorithms like experience replay and target network into a representation of variational quantum circuits. Moreover, we use a quantum information encoding scheme to reduce the number of model parameters compared to classical neural networks. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first proof-of-principle demonstration of variational quantum circuits to approximate the deep Q -value function for decision-making and policy-selection reinforcement learning with experience replay and target network. Besides, our variational quantum circuits can be deployed in many near-term NISQ machines.
David Peral-García, Juan Cruz-Benito, et al.
Expert Systems with Applications
Jhih-Cing Huang, Yu-Lin Tsai, et al.
ICASSP 2023
Izuho Koyasu, Raymond Harry Putra Rudy, et al.
QCE 2023
Das Pemmaraju, Amol Deshmukh
APS March Meeting 2023