Quantum Walk Inspired Neural Networks for Graph-Structured Data

In recent years, along with the overwhelming advances in the field of neural information processing, quantum information processing (QIP) has shown significant progress in solving problems that are intractable on classical computers. Quantum machine learning (QML) explores the ways in which these fields can learn from one another. We propose quantum walk neural networks (QWNN), a new graph neural network architecture based on quantum random walks, the quantum parallel to classical random walks. A QWNN learns a quantum walk on a graph to construct a diffusion operator which can be applied to a signal on a graph. We demonstrate the use of the network for prediction tasks for graph structured signals.