Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning (QTML conference 2023)

from Sunday 19 November 2023 (10:30) to Friday 24 November 2023 (17:00)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
19 Nov 2023
20 Nov 2023
21 Nov 2023
22 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023
24 Nov 2023
AM
10:30 ADVANCE TUTORIAL: Learning theory for quantum machines - Hsin-Yuan Huang (Google Quantum AI, MIT) Zoe Holmes (EPFL)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:30
BASIC TUTORIAL for Beginner (Part I) -Dr Michele Grossi (CERN) Elisa Bäumer (until 13:15) (61/1-009 - Room C)
08:45 OPENING - Dr Michele Grossi (CERN) Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)  
09:00 KEYNOTE: A General Message Belief Propagation Framework for Quantum Computations - Prof. Max Welling (University of Amsterdam)  
10:00 INVITED TALK: Better than classical? The subtle art of benchmarking quantum models - Dr Nathan Killoran (Xanadu)  
10:45 --- Coffe break ---
11:15
Quantum Learning and Quantum Advantage -Prof. Minh Ha Quang (RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project) (until 13:15)
11:15 On quantum backpropagation, information reuse, and cheating measurement collapse - Amira Abbas (University of Amsterdam/QuSoft)  
12:00 Classical Verification of Quantum Learning - Marcel Hinsche (Freie Universität Berlin)  
12:30 Learning bounds and guarantees for testing (quantum) hypotheses - Evan Peters (University of Waterloo/Perimeter)  
12:45 Exponential separations between classical and quantum learners - Casper GYURIK (Leiden)  
13:00 Classical simulations of noisy variational quantum circuits - Enrico Fontana (University of Strathclyde)  
09:00
Architectures for QML 1 - Oriel Orphee Moira Kiss (Universite de Geneve (CH)) (until 10:45)
09:00 Time-series quantum reservoir computing with weak and projective measurements - Pere Mujal (ICFO)  
09:15 Let Quantum Neural Networks Choose Their Own Frequencies - Ben Jadeberg (PASQAL)  
09:30 Extending Graph Transformers with Quantum Computed Aggregation - Slimane Thabet (PASQAL - Sorbonne University)  
09:45 Hierarchical quantum circuit representations for neural architecture search - Matt Lourens (Stellenbosch University)  
10:00 QResNet: a variational entanglement skipping algorithm - Giulio Crognaletti (University of Trieste)  
10:15 A General Approach for Dropout in Quantum Neural Networks - Francesco Scala (Università degli Studi di Pavia)  
10:30 Applying Genetic Algorithms to Optimize the Generalization Ability of Variational Quantum Circuits - Darya Martyniuk (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft)  
10:45 --- Coffe break ---
11:15 INVITED TALK: A Unified Theory of Barren Plateaus for Deep Parametrized Quantum Circuits - Dr Marco Cerezo (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
09:00
Quantum Learning and Shadows - Tobias Haug (TII) (until 10:45)
09:00 Shadows of quantum machine learning - Sofiene Jerbi (Freie Universität Berlin)  
09:30 Post-Variational Quantum Neural Networks - Po-wei Huang (Centre for Quantum Technologies)  
09:45 Neural–Shadow Quantum State Tomography - Pooya Ronagh (University of Waterloo & 1QBit)  
10:15 Efficient information recovery from Pauli noise via classical shadow - Yifei Chen (Institute for Quantum Computing, Baidu)  
10:30 Learning t-doped stabiliser states - Aliosha Hamma (Università di Napoli Federico II)  
10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:15 INVITED TALK: - Prof. Natalia Ares (University of Oxford)  
09:00
Quantum Algorithms -Mr Massimiliano Incudini (University of Verona) (until 10:45)
09:00 Quadratic Speedup in Quantum Zero-Sum Games via Single-Call Mirror-Prox Matrix Methods - Francisca Vasconcelos  
09:30 Constant-depth circuits for Uniformly Controlled Gates and Boolean functions with application to quantum memory circuits - Alessandro Luongo (Centre for Quantum Technologies)  
10:00 Quantum Distance Calculation for ε-Graph Construction - Naomi Mona CHMIELEWSKI (EDF Lab)  
10:15 Gibbs Sampling of Periodic Potentials on a Quantum Computer - Pooya Ronagh (University of Waterloo & 1QBit)  
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:15 INVITED TALK: Topics in quantum topological data analysis - Vedran Dunjko (Leiden University)  
09:00 INVITED TALK: The signal and the noise: learning with random quantum circuits and other agents of chaos - Dr Yihui QUEK (Harvard University)  
09:30
Gradients and Landscape Theory - Amira Abbas (University of Amsterdam/QuSoft) (until 10:45)
09:30 Analyzing variational quantum landscapes with information content - Adrian Perez Salinas (Lorentz Institute - Leiden University)  
09:45 The landscape of QAOA Max-Cut Lie algebras - Martin Larocca (Los Alamos National Lab)  
10:00 Training robust quantum classifiers based on Lipschitz bounds - Julian Berberich (University of Stuttgart)  
10:30 Splitting and Parallelizing of Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for Learning Translationally Symmetric Data - Koki Chinzei (Fujitsu Limited)  
10:45 Logistics updates  
10:50 --- Coffee Break ---
11:15 INVITED TALK: Approximate Autonomous Quantum Error Correction with Reinforcement Learning - Dr Clemens Gneiting (Riken)  
PM
13:15 --- LUNCH Restaurant 1 ---
14:45
ADVANCE TUTORIAL: Quantum algorithms – what’s quantum complexity theory got to do with it? -Prof. Alessandra Di Pierro (University of Verona) Prof. Sevag Gharibian (until 18:00)
14:45 Contribution - Sevag Gharibian  
14:45
BASIC TUTORIAL for Beginner (Part I) - Elisa Bäumer (until 18:00) (61/1-009 - Room C)
13:15 --- LUNCH ---
14:45
Quantum Models and Data - Diego Garcia-Martin (Los Alamos National Laboratory) (until 16:00)
14:45 Non-IID Quantum Federated Learning with One-shot Communication Complexity - haimeng Zhao (Tsinghua University)  
15:00 Quantum models and data through a precomputation lens - Jarrod Mclean (Google Quantum AI)  
15:30 Demystify Problem-Dependent Power of Quantum Neural Networks on Multi-Class Classification - Xinbiaong Wha (Wuhan University)  
16:00
Generalisation -Dr Diego Garcia-Martin (Los Alamos National Laboratory) (until 17:30)
16:00 Transition role of entangled data in quantum machine learning - Xinbiaong Wha (Wuhan University)  
16:30 The power and limitations of learning quantum dynamics incoherently - Sofiene Jerbi (Freie Universität Berlin)  
17:00 Understanding generalization with quantum geometry - Tobias Haug (TII)  
17:15 Understanding quantum machine learning also requires rethinking generalization - Elies Gil-Fuster (reie Universität Berlin, Fraunhofer HHI Berlin)  
17:30
WELCOME: CERN SCIENCE GATEWAY (until 19:00)
12:00
Symmetry and Geometric QML -Dr Supanut Thanasilp (EPFL) (until 13:15)
12:00 Equivariant Quantum Models - Martina Larocca (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
12:15 Approximately Equivariant Quantum Neural Network for p4m Group Symmetries in Images - Su Yeon Chang (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
12:30 Symmetry-invariant quantum machine learning force fields - Isabel Nha Minh LE (IBM Research Europe - Zurich and Technical University of Munich)  
13:00 Homogenous space expressibility of parametrized quantum circuits - Rahul Arvind (Institute for High Performance Computing, A*STAR)  
13:15 --- LUNCH ---
14:45
Trainability of Quantum Architectures -Dr Martina Larocca (Los Alamos National Laboratory) (until 17:00)
14:45 Trainability barriers and opportunities in quantum generative modeling - Manuel Rudolph (EPFL)  
15:15 On the Sample Complexity of Quantum Boltzmann Machine Learning - Luuk Coopmans (Quantinuum)  
15:45 On the Absence of Barren Plateaus in Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks - Dr Christa Zoufal (IBM Quantum Europe)  
16:15 Deep quantum neural networks form Gaussian processes - Diego Garcia-Martin (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
16:45 Here comes the SU(N) multivariate quantum gates and gradients - Roeland WIERSEMA (University of Waterloo & Vector Institute)  
17:00 Poster Session  
12:00
Machine Learning for Quantum Science -Prof. Antonio Mandarino (ICTQT - University of Gdansk) (until 13:15)
12:00 Machine learning continuously monitored systems: estimating parameters - Matias Bilkis (Computer Vision Center)  
12:15 Deep Learning of Quantum Correlations for Quantum Parameter Estimation of Continuously Monitored Systems - Enrico Rinaldi (Quantinuum K. K.)  
12:30 Channel tomography for quantum noise characterization and mitigation - Simone Roncallo (Università degli studi di Pavia)  
12:45 Explainable Representation Learning of Small Quantum States - Felix Frohnert (Leiden University)  
13:15 --- LUNCH ---
14:45
Experimental Implementations -Dr Francesco Tacchino (IBM Quantum) (until 15:45)
14:45 Quantum Feature Maps for Graph Machine Learning on a Neutral Atom Quantum Processor - Slimane Thabet (PASQAL - Sorbonne University)  
15:15 Variational quantum algorithms implemented on a general-purpose single-photon-based quantum computing platform - Alexia salavrakos (Quandela)  
15:45
Architecture for QML 3 -Dr Francesco Tacchino (IBM Quantum) (until 17:00)
15:45 Variational Quantum Time Evolution without the Quantum Geometric Tensor - Julien Gacon (IBM EPFL)  
16:00 Quantum Similarity Testing with Convolutional Neural Networks - Yan Zhu (The University of Hong Kong)  
16:15 Dimension reduction in quantum stochastic modelling - Chengran Yang (Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore)  
16:30 Quantum Fourier Networks for Solving Parametric PDEs - Natansh Mathur Jonas Landman (University of Edinburgh / QC Ware)  
17:00
INDUSTRY SESSION -Dr Michele Grossi (CERN) (until 18:45)
17:00 ESA - Bertrand Le Saux (European Space Agency)  
17:15 Google - Jarrod McClean (Google AI Quantum)  
17:30 IBM - Christa Zoufal (IBM Quantum Europe)  
17:45 INTEL - Gian Giacomo Guerreschi (Intel)  
18:00 IONQ - Masako Yamada  
18:15 NASA - Davide Venturelli (NASA)  
18:30 PASQAL - Dr Panagiotis Barkoutsos (PASQAL)  
18:45 Walk to Restaurant 2  
19:00
Social Dinner (until 22:30)
12:00
Quantum Kernels -Dr Christa Zoufal (IBM Quantum Europe) (until 13:15)
12:00 A Topological Features Based Quantum Kernel - Mr Massimiliano Incudini (University of Verona)  
12:15 Expressivity and Generalization Ability of Trace-induced Quantum Kernels - Beng Yee Gan (Centre for Quantum Technologies)  
12:45 A Multi-Class Quantum Kernel-Based Classifier - Shivani Pillay (University of KwaZulu Natal)  
13:00 Neural Quantum Embedding: Pushing the Limits of Quantum Supervised Learning - Tak Hur (Yonsei University)  
13:15 --- LUNCH ---
14:45 INVITED TALK: Accelerating Discovery in Particle Physics with AI - Jennifer Ngadiuba (FNAL)  
15:30
QML for Physics -Dr Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN) (until 17:00)
15:30 Quantum anomaly detection in the latent space of proton collision events at the LHC - Vasilis Belis (ETH Zurich (CH))  
15:45 Quantum data learning for quantum simulations in high-energy physics - Dr Lento Nagano (University of Tokyo (JP))  
16:00 Ab initio Quantum Simulation of Strongly Correlated Materials with Quantum Embedding - Jinzhao Sun (Imperial college)  
16:15 Detection of quantum phase transitions with quantum machine learning techniques - Antonio Mandarino (ICTQT - University of Gdansk)  
16:30 Simulating dynamics of large quantum systems on small quantum devices using circuit knitting - Gian Gentinetta (EPFL)  
16:45 Complete quantum-inspired framework for simulations of flows past immersed bodies - Egor Tiunov (Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi)  
17:00 Poster Session  
12:00
Reinforcement Learning and Robust Learning - Sofiene Jerbi (Freie Universität Berlin) (until 13:02)
12:00 Quantum adaptive agents with efficient long-term memories - Thomas Elliott (University of Manchester)  
12:30 Talk cancelled: Self-Correcting Quantum Many-Body Control using Reinforcement Learning with Tensor Networks - Friederike Metz (EPFL)  
12:31 Quantum machine learning with enhanced adversarial robustness - Maxwell West (The University of Melbourne)  
12:47 Quantum algorithm for robust optimization via stochastic-gradient online learning - Debbie Huey Chih LIM (University of Latvia)  
13:05 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Quantum Monte Carlo -Prof. David Windridge (Middlesex University, London, UK) (until 15:15)
14:30 Quantum Computing Quantum Monte Carlo - Jinzhao Sun (Imperial college)  
15:00 Quantum Metropolis-Hastings algorithm with the target distribution calculated by quantum Monte Carlo integration - Koichi Miyamoto (Osaka University)  
15:15
Quantum Optimization -Prof. David Windridge (Middlesex University, London, UK) (until 15:45)
15:15 Quantum optimization of Binary Neural Networks - Pietro Torta (SISSA)  
15:30 Performance Analysis and Comparative Study of Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Variants - Kostas Blekos (University of Patras)  
15:45
Quantum Reservoir Computing -Prof. David Windridge (Middlesex University, London, UK) (until 16:15)
15:45 Hybrid quantum-classical reservoir computing for solving chaotic systems - Filip Wudraski (USRA)  
16:00 Next Generation Quantum Reservoir Computing: An Efficient Quantum Algorithm for Forecasting Quantum Dynamics - Chotibut Thiparat (Chulalongkorn University)  
16:15 Closing words