Dr. Abhay Shastry Talk at Q-Karyashala 2023 on Quantum Machine Learning Beyond the hype

Title: Quantum Machine Learning beyond the hype

Abstract :
Quantum Computing offers credible Quantum Advantages, its popular media coverage has led to a misconception that it can solve problems efficiently because it can ``check all solutions in parallel using quantum superposition.” In reality, quantum computers will not replace classical computers for all tasks but will be used as special-purpose devices which speed up some subroutines. We will first give a brief introduction to the field of Quantum Computing and discuss its implication for certain Machine Learning tasks. We briefly discuss quantum kernel methods which may offer speed-ups in supervised machine learning.

Biography:

Abhay Shastry is a postdoc in the Department of Computer Science and Automation(CSA) at the Indian Institute of Science. His doctoral work was in physics and dealt with theoretical questions pertaining to nonequilibrium quantum systems.He is now interested in applying the methods and tools of statistical physics to understand Machine Learning algorithms, especially in Deep Learning. More specifically, I am interested in understanding the need for layering in certain neural network architectures.

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