Analyse CS Diagrams with Clustering
In this video we explain how to employ Principal Component Analysis to recover data patterns in Charge Stability Diagrams. We discuss the interpretation of the principal components.
Main takeaways
- Quite simple linear clustering techniques can be enormously useful in recovering features in a dataset
- In the case of unsupervised learning, one must be careful about interpreting the clusters of features correctly. Just an existence of a cluster itself does not imply the cluster corresponds to the physics we expect.
Further thinking
In principal component analysis, what are the principal components?
a. vectors that minimize the square distance of the data
b. vectors that maximize the square distance of the data
c. dataset samples with the lowest variance
d. dataset features with the lowest variance
Further reading
Discovering Phase Transitions with Unsupervised Learning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.00318.pdf
Paper: Quantum device fine-tuning using unsupervised embedding learning: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/abb64c
Efficiently measuring a quantum device using machine learning: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-019-0193-4