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New method optimizes quantum kernel estimation for Gaussian process regression

Researchers have developed a novel method for optimizing shot allocation in quantum kernel estimation for Gaussian process regression. This approach aims to reduce the computational budget required to achieve target accuracy by intelligently distributing sampling efforts across kernel entries based on their sensitivity to downstream tasks. The proposed method, which incorporates a uniform coverage floor to mitigate noise in sensitivity estimates, demonstrated significant improvements in test-RMSE on various benchmarks and for different quantum kernels. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient use of quantum computing resources for machine learning tasks like regression and Bayesian quadrature.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Jian Xu, Delu Zeng, Qibin Zhao ·

    Active Quantum Kernel Acquisition for Gaussian Process Regression

    arXiv:2606.28833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum kernel estimation on near-term hardware is shot-budgeted: every entry of the kernel Gram matrix is a Bernoulli expectation that must be sampled with a finite number of circuit executions. Recent work on quantum kernel classi…