Study of Feature Importance for Quantum Machine Learning Models

Predictor importance is a crucial part of data preprocessing pipelines in classical and quantum machine learning (QML). This work presents the first study of its kind in which feature importance for QML models has been explored and contrasted against their classical machine learning (CML) equivalent...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2022-06
Main Authors: Baughman, Aaron, Yogaraj, Kavitha, Hebbar, Raja, Ghosh, Sudeep, Rukhsan Ul Haq, Chhabra, Yoshika
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Circuits
Computer architecture
Equivalence
Machine learning
Mathematical analysis
Natural language processing
Quantum computing
Simulators
Statistical analysis
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Summary:Predictor importance is a crucial part of data preprocessing pipelines in classical and quantum machine learning (QML). This work presents the first study of its kind in which feature importance for QML models has been explored and contrasted against their classical machine learning (CML) equivalents. We developed a hybrid quantum-classical architecture where QML models are trained and feature importance values are calculated from classical algorithms on a real-world dataset. This architecture has been implemented on ESPN Fantasy Football data using Qiskit statevector simulators and IBM quantum hardware such as the IBMQ Mumbai and IBMQ Montreal systems. Even though we are in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era, the physical quantum computing results are promising. To facilitate current quantum scale, we created a data tiering, model aggregation, and novel validation methods. Notably, the feature importance magnitudes from the quantum models had a much higher variation when contrasted to classical models. We can show that equivalent QML and CML models are complementary through diversity measurements. The diversity between QML and CML demonstrates that both approaches can contribute to a solution in different ways. Within this paper we focus on Quantum Support Vector Classifiers (QSVC), Variational Quantum Circuit (VQC), and their classical counterparts. The ESPN and IBM fantasy football Trade Assistant combines advanced statistical analysis with the natural language processing of Watson Discovery to serve up personalized trade recommendations that are fair. Here, player valuation data of each player has been considered and this work can be extended to calculate the feature importance of other QML models such as Quantum Boltzmann machines.
ISSN:2331-8422