Semester page for FYS5419 - Spring 2025

Dear all, welcome back! This week we continue our discussion of quantum machine learning. Last week we introduced support vector machines and will now venture (after a short repetition from last week) into quantum support vector machines.  After our discussion of quantum support vector machines, we will venture into (May 7) into quantum neural networks and finally quantum boltzmann machines (May 14). 

The plans this week are thus

Plans for the week of April 28-May 2

1. Classical Support Vector Machines, reminder from last week

2. Classical Kernels and transition to Quantum Kernels

3. Quantum Support Vector Machines

Reading recommendations

1. For classical Support Vector Machines, see lecture notes by Morten Hjorth-Jensen at ...

Dear all, welcome back to the last four weeks of the semester! We hope you had a great break and thx to everybody for excellent answers to project 1. It was a pleasure to read and grade them. 

Before the Easter break, we concluded our discussion of quantum Fourier transforms and the quantum phase estimation algorithm. These two algorithms can form the basis for the second project, and for those of you who feel tempted, one can also venture into an exploration of Shor's algorithm.

We will use the remaining time to discuss quantum machine learning algorithms, with a focus on quantum support vector machines, neural networks and eventually quantum Boltzmann machines. 

Tomorrow, our lecture will via zoom only, and the plan is to give first an introduction to quantum ML methods and then to dive into classical support vector machines (SVMs), a very popular ML methods, which hopefully allows to make a smooth transition to quantum ML metho...

Dear all, we hope the week has started the best possible way. Since many of you are not at UiO this week, the lecture on Wednesday will uploaded as a recording only. Thus, there is no real time zoom session nor an in-person lecture.

The focus this week is on wrapping up our discussion of Fourier transforms and discuss the quantum phase estimation algorithm. Brief mentions of Shor's algorithm will also be made. After the Easter break, we will focus on quantum machine learning methods and will dedicate the remaining 3-4 weeks on this topic.

For the week, the plans are

Plans for the week of April 7-11, 2025

1. Reminder from last week about Quantum Fourier Transforms

2. Quantum phase estimation algorithm, final derivation and discussions

3. Brief discussion of Shor's algorithm

4. Reading recommendation...