EC884 Quantum Machine Learning and Applications

Course Name: 

EC884 Quantum Machine Learning and Applications

Programme: 

M.Tech(SPML)

Category: 

Elective (Ele)

Credits (L-T-P): 

(3-0-2) 4

Content: 

Background and Fundamentals: Review of Machine Learning Algorithms, Introduction to Quantum Computing including state vectors, Hilbert space, quantum states, quantum entanglement and superposition, quantum gates, and quantum circuits, Representing, and Handling Data on a Quantum Computer. Quantum machine learning (QML): Quantum machine learning (QML) basics; including representing classical data on quantum systems, quantum data encoding and embedding, quantum data representation and quantum feature maps, Quantum Algorithms for Machine Learning; Quantum Classifiers, Quantum Kernel Methods, and Quantum Clustering, Characterising Performance in ML vs. QML Quantum Neural Network (QNN): Quantum Variational Circuits, Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs), Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs), Quantum Federated Learning (QFL), Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QFL), Quantum Multimodal Learning. Applications and future research directions: Applications of QML in natural language processing, computer vision, healthcare, drug design, transportation, cyber security and remote sensing, challenges and future research directions in QML.

References: 

Tom M. Mitchell, “Machine Learning”, McGraw-Hill Publisher, 2017.
Chris Bernhardt’s “Quantum Computing for Everyone”, MIT Press, 2019.
Claudio Conti, “Quantum Machine Learning”, Springer Publisher, 2024.
Santanu Pattanayak, “Quantum Machine Learning with Python”, Apress Publisher, 2021

Department: 

Electronics and Communication Engineering(ECE)
 

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Prof. Ramesh Kini M.
Professor and Head,
Department of ECE, NITK, Surathkal,
P. O. Srinivasnagar,
Mangalore - 575 025 Karnataka, India.

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