Abstract
The increased development of quantum computing hardware in recent years
has led to increased interest in its application to various areas.
Finding effective ways to apply this technology to real-world use-cases
is a current area of research in the Remote Sensing (RS) community. This
paper proposes an Adiabatic Quantum Kitchen Sinks (AQKS) kernel
approximation algorithm with parallel quantum annealing on the D-Wave
Advantage quantum annealer. The proposed implementation is applied to
Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Gaussian Process Regression (GPR)
algorithms. To evaluate its performance, a regression problem related to
estimating chlorophyll concentra-tion in water is considered. The
proposed algorithm was tested on two real-world datasets and its results
were compared with those obtained from a classical implementation of
kernel-based algorithms and a Random Kitchen Sinks (RKS) implementation.
On average, the parallel AQKS achieved comparable results to the
benchmark methods, indicating its potential for future applications.