ℤ2 × ℤ2 Equivariant Quantum Neural Networks: Benchmarking against Classical Neural Networks
Zhongtian Dong, Marçal Comajoan Cara, Gopal Ramesh Dahale, Roy T. Forestano, Sergei Gleyzer, Daniel Justice, Kyoungchul Kong, Tom Magorsch, Konstantin T Matchev, Katia Matcheva, Eyup B. Unlu · Axioms · 2024
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the performance of Equivariant Quantum Neural Networks (EQNNs) and Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs), juxtaposed against their classical counterparts: Equivariant Neural Networks (ENNs) and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We evaluate the performance of each network with three two-dimensional toy examples for a binary classification task, focusing on model complexity (measured by the number of parameters) and the size of the training dataset. Our results show that the Z2×Z2 EQNN and the QNN provide superior performance for smaller parameter sets and modest training data samples.