Quantum Vision Transformers

Quantum analogues and quantum-native variants of the vision transformer for medical image classification

Joint work with F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG.

Developed both a quantum analogue and a quantum-native variant of the Vision Transformer architecture, and used them to classify Medical MNIST images. The quantum-native variant replaces the self-attention mechanism with orthogonal quantum circuits, and the approach was benchmarked with real hardware experiments (Kerenidis et al., 2024).

References

2024

  1. Quantum
    Quantum vision transformers
    Iordanis Kerenidis, Natansh Mathur, Jonas Landman, and 3 more authors
    Quantum, 2024