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Re:Design of a silicon quantum computer chip by fizx on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:41PM (#15955767)
I haven't pinned down the research yet, but I've read in popsci mentions and arxiv abstracts that at least a couple other people have cited, that training neural nets would be accelerated by a full-scale (i.e. mega-qubit) quantum computer.

Anyone with more expertise care to point me at a relevant paper?

Re:Design of a silicon quantum computer chip by nicholast on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @12:26AM (#15957988)
Here's a ppt deck covering a relevant overview of the subject.

https://medium.com/@_NicT_/quantum-machine-learning-c5ab31f6...

Re:Design of a silicon quantum computer chip by vtomole on Monday December 18, 2017 @07:28PM (#15956764)
There has been some effort to use quantum computers to solve machine learning problems. One for training neural networks [0]; and another for unsupervised machine learning [1].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05304.pdf

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05771.pdf