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A Practical Guide to Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum Optimization

By : Elías F. Combarro, Samuel González-Castillo
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Book Image

A Practical Guide to Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum Optimization

4.5 (2)
By: Elías F. Combarro, Samuel González-Castillo

Overview of this book

This book provides deep coverage of modern quantum algorithms that can be used to solve real-world problems. You’ll be introduced to quantum computing using a hands-on approach with minimal prerequisites. You’ll discover many algorithms, tools, and methods to model optimization problems with the QUBO and Ising formalisms, and you will find out how to solve optimization problems with quantum annealing, QAOA, Grover Adaptive Search (GAS), and VQE. This book also shows you how to train quantum machine learning models, such as quantum support vector machines, quantum neural networks, and quantum generative adversarial networks. The book takes a straightforward path to help you learn about quantum algorithms, illustrating them with code that’s ready to be run on quantum simulators and actual quantum computers. You’ll also learn how to utilize programming frameworks such as IBM’s Qiskit, Xanadu’s PennyLane, and D-Wave’s Leap. Through reading this book, you will not only build a solid foundation of the fundamentals of quantum computing, but you will also become familiar with a wide variety of modern quantum algorithms. Moreover, this book will give you the programming skills that will enable you to start applying quantum methods to solve practical problems right away.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Part I: I, for One, Welcome our New Quantum Overlords
4
Part II: When Time is Gold: Tools for Quantum Optimization
10
Part III: A Match Made in Heaven: Quantum Machine Learning
16
Part IV: Afterword and Appendices
17
Chapter 13: Afterword: The Future of Quantum Computing
19
Bibliography
20
Index
Appendix A: Complex Numbers
Appendix E: Production Notes

Appendix D
Installing the Tools

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
— Thomas Carlyle

In this appendix, we will give you all the instructions needed to run the code examples provided in the main text. We will start by guiding you through the process of installing the software that we will use, then we will learn how to access the real quantum computers on which we will run our code, and finally, we will also show you how to accelerate some of the executions by using a GPU.

D.1 Getting Python

All the quantum programming libraries that we use in this book are based on Python, so you need to have a working Python distribution. If your operating system is Linux or macOS, you probably have one already. If your Python version is at least 3.7, then you are ready to go.

However, even if you already have Python installed on your system, we recommend that you consider following one of these two options:

  • Installing Anaconda: Anaconda is a data...