Correlated optical convolutional neural network with“quantum speedup”  

作　　者：Yifan Sun Qian Li Ling-Jun Kong Xiangdong Zhang 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of advanced optoelectronic quantum architecture and measurements of Ministry of Education,Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics&Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems,School of Physics,Beijing Institute of Technology,100081,Beijing,China

出　　处：《Light(Science & Applications)》2024年第2期333-346,共14页光（科学与应用)（英文版）

基　　金：National key R&D Program of China(2022YFA1404904);National Natural Science Foundation of China(12234004);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11904022).

摘　　要：Compared with electrical neural networks,optical neural networks(ONNs)have the potentials to break the limit of the bandwidth and reduce the consumption of energy,and therefore draw much attention in recent years.By far,several types of ONNs have been implemented.However,the current ONNs cannot realize the acceleration as powerful as that indicated by the models like quantum neural networks.How to construct and realize an ONN with the quantum speedup is a huge challenge.Here,we propose theoretically and demonstrate experimentally a new type of optical convolutional neural network by introducing the optical correlation.It is called the correlated optical convolutional neural network(COCNN).We show that the COCNN can exhibit“quantum speedup”in the training process.The character is verified from the two aspects.One is the direct illustration of the faster convergence by comparing the loss function curves of the COCNN with that of the traditional convolutional neural network(CNN).Such a result is compatible with the training performance of the recently proposed quantum convolutional neural network(QCNN).The other is the demonstration of the COCNN’s capability to perform the QCNN phase recognition circuit,validating the connection between the COCNN and the QCNN.Furthermore,we take the COCNN analog to the 3-qubit QCNN phase recognition circuit as an example and perform an experiment to show the soundness and the feasibility of it.The results perfectly match the theoretical calculations.Our proposal opens up a new avenue for realizing the ONNs with the quantum speedup,which will benefit the information processing in the era of big data.

关 键 词：PROCESS QUANTUM CONVOLUTION 

分 类 号：O41[理学—理论物理]