{"id":219422,"date":"2025-08-05T04:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/gaussian-processes-provide-a-new-path-toward-quantum-machine-learning"},"modified":"2025-08-05T04:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:15:22","slug":"gaussian-processes-provide-a-new-path-toward-quantum-machine-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/gaussian-processes-provide-a-new-path-toward-quantum-machine-learning","title":{"rendered":"Gaussian processes provide a new path toward quantum machine learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gaussian-processes-provide-a-new-path-toward-quantum-machine-learning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neural networks revolutionized machine learning for classical computers: self-driving cars, language translation and even artificial intelligence software were all made possible. It is no wonder, then, that researchers wanted to transfer this same power to quantum computers\u2014but all attempts to do so brought unforeseen problems.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, however, a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory developed a new way to bring these same <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mathematical+concepts\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mathematical concepts<\/a> to quantum computers by leveraging something called the Gaussian process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal for this project was to see if we could prove that genuine quantum Gaussian processes exist,\u201d said Marco Cerezo, the Los Alamos team\u2019s lead scientist. \u201cSuch a result would spur innovations and new forms of performing quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/machine+learning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">machine learning<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neural networks revolutionized machine learning for classical computers: self-driving cars, language translation and even artificial intelligence software were all made possible. It is no wonder, then, that researchers wanted to transfer this same power to quantum computers\u2014but all attempts to do so brought unforeseen problems. Recently, however, a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}