microsoft/mlads2020-quantumclassification

Quantum Classification tutorial using Microsoft Quantum Development Kit

This repository has been archived. Please refer to the tutorial on quantum classification with Q# for the latest version of the tutorial.

Welcome!

This repository contains the materials for the "Introduction to Quantum Classification" lab presented at Spring 2020 MLADS Conference. In this lab you will experiment with a simple circuit-centric quantum classifier using the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit.

Running the Lab

You can run the lab online on Binder.

Running this lab on Binder is very slow, so if you prefer to run the lab online we recommend you to read through the notebook using saved cell outputs before attempting to run the cells.

Alternatively, you can install Jupyter and Q# and qsharp package for Python. Note that this tutorial requires matplotlib and numpy Python packages to be installed.

After that you can run the tutorial locally by navigating to the QuantumClassification folder and starting the notebook from command line using the following command:

jupyter notebook ExploringQuantumClassificationLibrary.ipynb

The Q# project in this folder contains the back-end of the tutorial and is not designed for direct use.

Resources

Here are some resources to get you started:

• Install Microsoft Quantum Development Kit and Q# Jupyter Notebooks
• Learn the basics of quantum computing and Q# using the Quantum Katas
• Check out Microsoft Quantum documentation, in particular introduction to quantum machine learning
• 'Circuit-centric quantum classifiers', by Maria Schuld, Alex Bocharov, Krysta Svore and Nathan Wiebe describes the original proposal behind this type of classifiers.

Contributing

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