Benchmark

Quantum Kernel Methods Classification Benchmark

Quantum Support Vector Machine (QSVM) with quantum kernels · Machine-learning · 10 qubits · Qiskit Machine Learning, PennyLane

Benchmark evaluating quantum kernel estimation (QKE) and quantum kernel training (QKT) for classification tasks using quantum support vector machines. A large-scale study examined fidelity-based and projected quantum kernels across 64 datasets and five dataset families. While quantum kernels outperform classical methods on specifically constructed ad-hoc datasets, results on standard classical benchmarks are mixed.

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Benchmark evaluating quantum kernel estimation (QKE) and quantum kernel training (QKT) for classification tasks using quantum support vector machines. A large-scale study examined fidelity-based and projected quantum kernels across 64 datasets and five dataset families. While quantum kernels outperform classical methods on specifically constructed ad-hoc datasets, results on standard classical benchmarks are mixed.

Key Metrics
Datasets evaluated
64
Dataset families
5
Qubits used
10
Why It Matters

Largest systematic evaluation of quantum kernel methods, revealing that quantum advantage is dataset-dependent and not universal for classification tasks.

Hardware

Simulator / hardware-agnostic

Framework

Qiskit Machine Learning, PennyLane