Less-Article1309 t1_irnsaed wrote on October 9, 2022 at 5:51 PM

eh who cares about quantum models, too much incoherence and noise. D-Wave's adiabatic quantum computer is showing a lot of promise in the optimization arena. All that needs to happen is a quantum method used for finding good classical ANN minima instead of SGD; then there would no longer be the requirement for lengthy and costly GPU training if quantum annealing of ANN weights becomes a reality.

utilop t1_ironow2 wrote on October 9, 2022 at 9:18 PM

Why did this get downvoted?

Is there some fundamental limitation implying that we would have to rely on SGD and cannot do the optimization through superposition?

Less-Article1309 t1_irrjhfe wrote on October 10, 2022 at 2:30 PM

There's plenty of other optimization methods out there, simulated annealing for example. SGD just lends itself well to the massively parallel architecture of Nvidia GPUs, that's the only reason why it's so prevalent in the industry.