SLIQ: Quantum Image Similarity Networks on Noisy Quantum Computers

Abstract Exploration into quantum machine learning has grown tremendously in recent years due to the ability of quantum computers to speed up classical programs. However, these ef- forts have yet to solve unsupervised similarity detection tasks due to the challenge of porting them to run on quantum com- puters. To overcome this challenge, we propose SLIQ, the first open-sourced work for resource-efficient quantum sim- ilarity detection networks, built with practical and effective quantum learning and variance-reducing algorithms.