A novel quantum neural network based on multi-level activation function

Abstract

Since the multi-level activation function quantum neural network (QNN) for pattern recognition was firstly proposed by Purushothaman and Karayiannis, more and more researches have been conducted on improving it. However, they all ignore that the QNN only uses multi-level activation function to simulate the concept of quantum superposition rather than really using quantum computing. In this paper, we propose a real QNN model based on multi-layer activation function. In addition, we present algorithms for updating weight parameters and quantum intervals, and also improve the learning algorithm for weight parameters using famous Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm. We also use the QNN for lie detection, and the simulation results of MATLAB prove that the performance of the model based on the corresponding algorithm are very strong.