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so it will eventually run stochastic gradient descent faster than GPU?

• krastanov 7y ago
  The short answer is no. The long answer is much more interesting. The premise of your question is a bit misleading. Quantum computers do not run classical algorithms faster, rather they run algorithms specifically designed to take advantage of the quantum coherence. For many tasks this does not provide an advantage. For some very special (and occasionally useful) tasks, the advantage seems to be exponential. Simulating quantum mechanics (as in chemistry, material design, drug design) is one of these tasks. Some linear algebra tasks are also faster. Lastly, some researchers are hopeful that novel gradient-free optimizations algorithms exist for quantum hardware, but this is a bit more controversial.