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- Title
Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Stereographic K Nearest-Neighbour Clustering.
- Authors
Viladomat Jasso, Alonso; Modi, Ark; Ferrara, Roberto; Deppe, Christian; Nötzel, Janis; Fung, Fred; Schädler, Maximilian
- Abstract
Nearest-neighbour clustering is a simple yet powerful machine learning algorithm that finds natural application in the decoding of signals in classical optical-fibre communication systems. Quantum k-means clustering promises a speed-up over the classical k-means algorithm; however, it has been shown to not currently provide this speed-up for decoding optical-fibre signals due to the embedding of classical data, which introduces inaccuracies and slowdowns. Although still not achieving an exponential speed-up for NISQ implementations, this work proposes the generalised inverse stereographic projection as an improved embedding into the Bloch sphere for quantum distance estimation in k-nearest-neighbour clustering, which allows us to get closer to the classical performance. We also use the generalised inverse stereographic projection to develop an analogous classical clustering algorithm and benchmark its accuracy, runtime and convergence for decoding real-world experimental optical-fibre communication data. This proposed 'quantum-inspired' algorithm provides an improvement in both the accuracy and convergence rate with respect to the k-means algorithm. Hence, this work presents two main contributions. Firstly, we propose the general inverse stereographic projection into the Bloch sphere as a better embedding for quantum machine learning algorithms; here, we use the problem of clustering quadrature amplitude modulated optical-fibre signals as an example. Secondly, as a purely classical contribution inspired by the first contribution, we propose and benchmark the use of the general inverse stereographic projection and spherical centroid for clustering optical-fibre signals, showing that optimizing the radius yields a consistent improvement in accuracy and convergence rate.
- Subjects
MACHINE learning; SPHERICAL projection; CENTROID; K-means clustering; QUANTUM communication; K-nearest neighbor classification; TELECOMMUNICATION systems; QUADRATURE amplitude modulation
- Publication
Entropy, 2023, Vol 25, Issue 9, p1361
- ISSN
1099-4300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/e25091361