Quantum machine learning is emerging as a strategy to solve real-world problems. As a quantum computing model, parameterized quantum circuits provide an approach for constructing quantum machine learning algorithms, which may either realize computational acceleration or achieve better algorithm performance than classical algorithms. Based on the parameterized quantum circuit, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical convolutional neural network (HQCCNN) model for image classification that comprises both quantum and classical components. The quantum convolutional layer is designed using a parameterized quantum circuit. It is used to perform linear unitary transformation on the quantum state to extract hidden information. In addition, the quantum pooling unit is used to perform pooling operations. After the evolution of the quantum system, we measure the quantum state and input the measurement results into a classical fully connected layer for further processing. We demonstrate its potential by applying HQCCNN to the MNIST dataset. Compared to a convolutional neural network in a similar architecture, the results reveal that HQCCNN has a faster training speed and higher testing set accuracy than a convolutional neural network.
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