Answers.Body: <p>There's already a discipline called <strong>quantum machine learning</strong>.</p>
  <p>The paper <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00311-3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning</a> focuses on quantum neural networks and quantum deep learning (according to the abstract), but feel free to look for other resources.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Given that qubits can exist in a superposition, meaning a qubit can represent probabilities of every possible state, what if we leverage this idea in artificial neural networks? Specifically, in scenarios where we require a softmax layer for multi-class classification, could we use the power of qubits in the output layer to reduce the number of nodes required to measure the probabilities of a prediction belonging to a particular class?</p>
  
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Title: Can we use the capabilities of quantum computing to enhance neural networks?
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ThreadText: # Can we use the capabilities of quantum computing to enhance neural networks?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-06-09)
  
  Given that qubits can exist in a superposition, meaning a qubit can represent probabilities of every possible state, what if we leverage this idea in artificial neural networks? Specifically, in scenarios where we require a softmax layer for multi-class classification, could we use the power of qubits in the output layer to reduce the number of nodes required to measure the probabilities of a prediction belonging to a particular class?
  
  **Tags:** neural-networks, quantum-computing
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2024-06-15. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  There's already a discipline called **quantum machine learning**.
  
  The paper [Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning](https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00311-3) focuses on quantum neural networks and quantum deep learning (according to the abstract), but feel free to look for other resources.
  
  
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