Benchmark

Variational Quantum Classifier Benchmark

Variational Quantum Classifier (VQC) · Machine-learning · 8 qubits · Qiskit Machine Learning, PennyLane

Benchmark of variational quantum classifiers that use parameterized quantum circuits for supervised learning. Circuit-centric quantum classifiers encode classical data into quantum states via feature maps, then apply trainable unitaries and measure a readout qubit for binary classification. Benchmarks evaluate different ansatz architectures, encoding strategies, and circuit depths on standard datasets including Iris, MNIST subsets, and domain-specific applications.

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Benchmark of variational quantum classifiers that use parameterized quantum circuits for supervised learning. Circuit-centric quantum classifiers encode classical data into quantum states via feature maps, then apply trainable unitaries and measure a readout qubit for binary classification. Benchmarks evaluate different ansatz architectures, encoding strategies, and circuit depths on standard datasets including Iris, MNIST subsets, and domain-specific applications.

Key Metrics
Qubits used
8
Datasets
Iris, MNIST subsets
Why It Matters

Foundational benchmark for quantum machine learning, establishing the circuit-centric classification paradigm used by most subsequent QML research.

Hardware

Simulator / hardware-agnostic

Framework

Qiskit Machine Learning, PennyLane

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