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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 E
Production Notes

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.
— Mark Twain

This book was written in LaTeX by the two of us in three different countries (Ireland, Spain, and Switzerland) and in a wide variety of places: in offices at Maynooth University, the University of Oviedo and CERN; in an apartment in Oviedo, a university dorm in Maynooth, and an apartment in Geneva; in a sports pavilion; in the waiting rooms of emergency departments of two different hospitals; near the beach; near the mountains; on the backseat of a car; on some commuter trains; at several different airports; at a hotel in Almería; and, probably, in some other locations that we do not remember now.

All this wouldn’t have been possible without adequate tools and apps. The main one was Overleaf (https://www.overleaf.com), which allowed us to collaborate and work simultaneously even while we were thousands of kilometers away from each other.

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