Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for the detection of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the AGILE space mission data

A Rizzo, N Parmiggiani, A Bulgarelli…�- arXiv preprint arXiv�…, 2024 - arxiv.org
A Rizzo, N Parmiggiani, A Bulgarelli, A Macaluso, V Fioretti, L Castaldini, A Di Piano…
arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14133, 2024arxiv.org
Quantum computing represents a cutting-edge frontier in artificial intelligence. It makes use
of hybrid quantum-classical computation which tries to leverage quantum mechanic
principles that allow us to use a different approach to deep learning classification problems.
The work presented here falls within the context of the AGILE space mission, launched in
2007 by the Italian Space Agency. We implement different Quantum Convolutional Neural
Networks (QCNN) that analyze data acquired by the instruments onboard AGILE to detect�…
Quantum computing represents a cutting-edge frontier in artificial intelligence. It makes use of hybrid quantum-classical computation which tries to leverage quantum mechanic principles that allow us to use a different approach to deep learning classification problems. The work presented here falls within the context of the AGILE space mission, launched in 2007 by the Italian Space Agency. We implement different Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNN) that analyze data acquired by the instruments onboard AGILE to detect Gamma-Ray Bursts from sky maps or light curves. We use several frameworks such as TensorFlow-Quantum, Qiskit and PennyLane to simulate a quantum computer. We achieved an accuracy of 95.1% on sky maps with QCNNs, while the classical counterpart achieved 98.8% on the same data, using however hundreds of thousands more parameters.
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