Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28905917›Full record

ArticleNature2017

Quantum machine learning.

Jacob Biamonte, Peter Wittek, Nicola Pancotti, Patrick Rebentrost, Nathan Wiebe, Seth Lloyd

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Article in Nature, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 306 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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306citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

306 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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246 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jacob BiamonteQuantum Complexity Science Initiative, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skoltech Building 3, Moscow 143026, Russia.
Peter WittekICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Barcelona 08860 Spain.
Nicola PancottiMax Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, 1 Hans-Kopfermannstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
Patrick RebentrostMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Nathan WiebeStation Q Quantum Architectures and Computation Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington 98052, USA.
Seth LloydMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fuelled by increasing computer power and algorithmic advances, machine learning techniques have become powerful tools for finding patterns in data. Quantum systems produce atypical patterns that classical systems are thought not to produce efficiently, so it is reasonable to postulate that quantum computers may outperform classical computers on machine learning tasks. The field of quantum machine learning explores how to devise and implement quantum software that could enable machine learning that is faster than that of classical computers. Recent work has produced quantum algorithms that could act as the building blocks of machine learning programs, but the hardware and software challenges are still considerable.

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PMID28905917

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