Impact of Data Loss in Postprocessing on Training and Inference of Quantum Neural Networks

📅 2026-09-04
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研究解决了量子神经网络在后处理中因数据丢失导致训练和推理性能下降的问题,通过实现基于布局的边际化修正方法来解决。
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As quantum hardware scales to larger devices, the classical software layers that interface with it must evolve in step. Postprocessing routines developed and tested primarily in simulator settings can encode assumptions that no longer hold on utility-scale devices, leading to data loss that can be difficult to detect from high-level model outputs alone. We present a case study of \texttt{SamplerQNN}, the sampling-based quantum neural network class in the Qiskit Machine Learning library. Here, the postprocessing method applies a filter that assumes measurement bit-strings are in virtual qubit space. On our quantum hardware runs, where bit-strings span over 100 physical qubits, this filter led to the loss of 85 to 99.6\% of valid measurement shots, depending on the transpiler's qubit placement. The resulting probability vector is unnormalised, allowing distorted prediction and loss values to propagate through the model without an API-level warning. We demonstrate the impact across five experiments on two IBM backends: for inference, accuracy drops from 0.94 to 0.39 on the same raw measurements; for training, the loss signal is compressed by 22 to 27$\times$, substantially reducing the sensitivity of the optimiser to the objective landscape. The behaviour arises in all released versions of the library (0.8.4 to 0.9.0). We implemented a layout-based marginalisation fix, merged into the GitHub codebase as Pull Request \#1041, that makes \texttt{SamplerQNN} postprocessing forward-compatible with current and upcoming hardware.
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Data Loss
Postprocessing
Quantum Neural Networks
Measurement Bit-strings
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data loss
postprocessing
quantum neural networks
layout-based marginalisation
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