Quantum-Enhanced Deep Q Learning with Parametrized Quantum Circuit

Quantum Computing (QC) is fastly growing to replace current computing systems for many high-performance applications. Due to the rapid increase of computational power, machine learning models based on artificial neural networks (ANN) have become highly effective. Even though classical machine learning models have been performing well, quantum computing with machine learning, i.e., Quantum Machine Learning (QML), will enhance the performance in multiple ways. Subsequently, Deep
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learning is a prominent approach to reinforcement learning used in solving complex applications for a desired performance. But this performance can be improved using a quantum computer. This paper proposes a quantum-enhanced Deep Q Learning algorithm to see its advantages over its classical counterparts. We implement our approach using parametrized quantum circuit (PQC). The evaluation of the proposed method achieves the metrics rewards and episodes up to 500 points and 1200, respectively. The performance shows that it collects roughly four times more rewards in a given time and takes significantly fewer episodes to converge compared to the classical approach.