Quantum Machine Learning
Highlights and Reflections
Sharing here a slide deck I prepared for potential presentation to a local (Houston) machine learning meet-up. The deck is an adaptation / review of a recently published paper addressing the intersection of emerging technologies in quantum computing and machine learning. Although a version of this paper was recently published in Nature journal, I am instead basing this review on on a prior 2016 draft that is available on arXiv [here]— I would feel a little weird giving this treatment for a version that is behind a paywall, so the hope is that by limiting my review to the older public version the authors will grant me a little leniency in sharing this work in a public forum. For those with professional interest or who need up to date information I encourage you to seek the Nature version that is behind a paywall [here].
Most of the points here are highlights and excerpts from the paper itself, often edited for condensed prose or to combine points. In a few cases I have incorporated some additional language meant to address more elementary concepts for explanatory purposes (most of the items in italic font). I would consider a useful contribution here to be the updating of the selected citations with paper titles in colored font for ease of visual scanning — it would be wonderful if any visiting academic authors considered adopting this approach in their own work. I was surprised at the extent to which the cited papers are freely available on arXiv (or in a few cases some other archive), this trend for academics to share works in a public forum like arXiv is certainly a blessing to amateurs like me without access to a university library.
Just fair warning, as the content here could foreseeably be a touch dry for those new the field, I’ve made liberal use of (sometime only vaguely related (if at all)) images to add a little color. I’ve also included here an embedded YouTube album which could be useful as a soundtrack for ambience during review.
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Update February 2019
This is very very very hard to do. I’ve done some soul searching on this presentation, and finally came to the conclusion that this may be materially crossing the line with respect to copyright. I’ve admittedly approached some gray areas in a few pieces here on medium — always with good intent, citations, and with the hope that I can facilitate support to originating author such as through channeled book sales, internet traffic, or the like. This full presentation I think is one of my best pieces, I consider it a work of art. But artistic interpretation aside, I think that by simply summarizing the source paper in its entirety, with included citations no less, it is not demonstrating sufficient original contribution to justify such a derivative work. So I’m going to go ahead and scrub the slides from Medium. Note that I did later conduct a presentation which included some highlights from this paper, and I’ll include a link to that abridged version here. My apology to the paper authors.
*For further readings please check out my Table of Contents and Book Recommendations.
Books that were referenced here or otherwise inspired this post:
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe — Roger Penrose
The Road to Reality — Roger Penrose
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