Abstract
In the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, quantum machine learning is emerging as a dominant paradigm to program gate-based quantum computers. In quantum machine learning, the gates of a quantum circuit are parametrized, and the parameters are tuned via classical optimization based on data and on measurements of the outputs of the circuit. Parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) can efficiently address combinatorial optimization problems, implement probabilistic generative models, and carry out inference (classification and regression). The first part of the talk provides a short introduction to quantum machine learning by assuming no background on quantum theory and focusing on key algorithmic principles. The second part overviews some recent results concerning hybrid classical-quantum models and quantum error mitigated optimization.
Bio
Osvaldo Simeone is a Professor of Information Engineering with the Centre for Telecommunications Research at the Department of Engineering of King's College London, where he directs the King's Communications, Learning and Information Processing lab. He received an M.Sc. degree (with honors) and a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. From 2006 to 2017, he was a faculty member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), where he was affiliated with the Center for Wireless Information Processing (CWiP). His research interests include information theory, machine learning, wireless communications, neuromorphic computing, and quantum machine learning. Dr Simeone is a co-recipient of the 2022 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award, the 2021 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, the 2019 IEEE Communication Society Best Tutorial Paper Award, the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Best Paper Award, the 2017 JCN Best Paper Award, the 2015 IEEE Communication Society Best Tutorial Paper Award and of the Best Paper Awards of IEEE SPAWC 2007 and IEEE WRECOM 2007. He was awarded a Consolidator grant by the European Research Council (ERC) in 2016. His research has been also supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Vienna Science and Technology Fund, the European Space Agency, as well as by a number of industrial collaborations including with Intel Labs and InterDigital. He is the Chair of the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and of the UK & Ireland Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society, andhe was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2017 and 2018. Dr Simeone is the author of the textbook "Machine Learning for Engineers" to be published by Cambridge University Press, four monographs, two edited books, and more than 170 research journal and magazine papers. He is a Fellow of the IET and of the IEEE.
Host: Prof. Gil Zussman