Academic Articles & Research Papers

Analyzing the barren plateau phenomenon in training quantum neural networks with the ZX-calculus

In this paper, we propose a general scheme to analyze the gradient vanishing phenomenon, also known as the barren plateau phenomenon, in training quantum neural networks with the ZX-calculus. More precisely, we extend the barren plateaus th...

Quantum resources of quantum and classical variational methods

Variational techniques have long been at the heart of atomic, solid-state, and many-body physics. They have recently extended to quantum and classical machine learning, providing a basis for representing quantum states via neural networks. ...

Quantum Computing in Machine Learning - The Future of Quantum Computing

In order to solve challenging optimization issues, analyze data effectively, and improve the capabilities of current machine learning algorithms, quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize the area of machine learning. The propose...

The Role and Application of Matrices in Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Methods, and Advancements

Matrices are foundational to artificial intelligence (AI), serving as critical tools for data representation, manipulation, and transformation across various applications. From machine learning algorithms to neural network architectures, ma...

CsPbBr3/graphene nanowall artificial optoelectronic synapses for controllable perceptual learning

Abstract The rapid development of neuromorphic computing has stimulated extensive research interest in artificial synapses. Optoelectronic artificial synapses using laser beams as stimulus signals have the advantages of broadband, fast resp...

Quantum computing models for artificial neural networks

Abstract Neural networks are computing models that have been leading progress in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. In parallel, the first small-scale quantum computing devices have become available in rece...

The state of quantum computing applications in health and medicine

Abstract Quantum computing hardware and software have made enormous strides over the last years1. Questions around quantum computing’s impact on research and society have changed from “if” to “when/how”. The 2020s have been described as the...

Classical and Quantum Computing

Classical and Quantum computing provides a self-contained, systematic and comprehensive introduction to all the subjects and techniques important in scientific computing. The style and presentation are readily accessible to undergraduates a...

Quantifying Uncertainties in Natural Language Processing Tasks

Reliable uncertainty quantification is a first step towards building explainable, transparent, and accountable artificial intelligent systems. Recent progress in Bayesian deep learning has made such quantification realizable. In this paper,...

Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing

Deep learning has attracted dramatic attention in recent years, both in academia and industry. The popular term deep learning generally refers to neural network methods. Indeed, many core ideas and methods were born years ago in the era of ...

Using natural language processing to understand people and culture.

Language can provide important insights into people, and culture more generally. Further, the digitization of information has made more and more textual data available. But by itself, all that data are just that: data. Realizing its potenti...

Natural Language Processing

In the modern age of information and analytics, natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important technologies out there. Making sense of complex structures in language and deriving insights and actions from it are crucial from...

Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing

Binarized Neural Networks: Training Deep Neural Networks with Weights and Activations Constrained to +1 or -1

We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time. At training-time the binary weights and activations are used for computing the parameters gradients. During t...

Part-of-speech tagging with neural networks

Text corpora which are tagged with part-of-speech information are useful in many areas of linguistic research. In this paper, a new part-of-speech tagging method based on neural networks (Net- Tagger) is presented and its performance is com...

Spectrally-normalized margin bounds for neural networks

This paper presents a margin-based multiclass generalization bound for neural networks that scales with their margin-normalized "spectral complexity": their Lipschitz constant, meaning the product of the spectral norms of the weight matrice...

A survey of uncertainty in deep neural networks

Abstract Over the last decade, neural networks have reached almost every field of science and become a crucial part of various real world applications. Due to the increasing spread, confidence in neural network predictions has become more a...

Neural networks in control systems

Some of the problems that arise in the control of nonlinear systems in the presence of uncertainty are considered. Multilayer neural networks and radial basis function networks are used in the design of identifiers and controllers, and grad...

Weight Uncertainty in Neural Networks

We introduce a new, efficient, principled and backpropagation-compatible algorithm for learning a probability distribution on the weights of a neural network, called Bayes by Backprop. It regularises the weights by minimising a compression ...

Autoassociative neural networks