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24.03.2021

Our Publication on Experimental quantum speed-up in reinforcement learning agents was highlighted in Optics & Photonics.

AI Gets a Quantum Speed-up

Being rewarded for repeated good performance has proven to be a successful learning technique, whether the student involved is a human being or a machine-learning algorithm. But this so-called reinforcement learning can be very time consuming.

Now, an international research collaboration has shown how to significantly speed things up by using a nanophotonic processor to carry out this technique employing both classical and quantum communication. Possible applications for this approach, the researchers say, span a range of sectors, from robotics to healthcare (Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03242-7).

 

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A team has reported the first proof-of-principle experiment of a new quantum-based learning technique, shown here in an artist’s impression. [Image: Rolando Barry, University of Vienna]