Equation 4 · Part 6 · How Post-CMOS, Neuromorphic, Photonic, and Quantum AI Compute Actually Works
Symbol U^dagger
What this part means
agger is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
Its job in the formula
agger is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
For a machine-learning task, the near-term architecture almost universally used is the parameterized (or variational) quantum circuit, and its mechanism has four concrete steps. First, classical input data x is encoded into a quantum state by applying a data-dependent unitary V(x) to a fixed initial state — commonly done by rotating each qubit by an angle set from one feature of x, so the input vector is literally written into rotation angles. Second, an “ansatz” unitary U(θ) — a fixed sequence of parameterized single-qubit rotation gates and two-qubit entangling gates, repeated over several layers — is applied, where θ is now a set of continuously adjustable classical numbers rather than…
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An exponent tells how a base is used in multiplication. In x³, x is the base and 3 is the exponent: x³ = x × x × x.
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