An Adaptive Quantum Circuit of Dempster's Rule of Combination for Uncertain Pattern Classification

In pattern classification, efficient uncertainty reasoning plays a critical role, particularly in real-time applications involving noisy data, ambiguous class boundaries, or overlapping categories. Leveraging the advanced computational power of quantum computing, an Adaptive Quantum Circuit for Dempster’s Rule of Combination (AQC-DRC) is proposed to address efficient classification under uncertain environments. The AQC-DRC is developed within the framework of quantum evidence theory (QET) and facilitates decision-making based on quantum basic probability and plausibility levels, which is a generalized Bayesian inference method. The AQC-DRC provides a deterministic computation of DRC, ensuring that quantum fusion outcomes in uncertain pattern classification are exactly aligned with those of the classical method, while simultaneously achieving exponential reductions in the computational complexity of evidence combination and significantly improving fusion efficiency. It is founded that the quantum basic probability amplitude function in QET, as a generalized quantum probability amplitude, can be naturally utilized to express the quantum amplitude encoding. In addition, the quantum basic probability in QET, as a generalized quantum probability, naturally forms a quantum basic probability distribution and can be used to represent quantum measurement outcomes for quantum basic probability level decision-making. Furthermore, the quantum plausibility function in QET also can be naturally used to express the quantum measurement outcomes for quantum plausibility level decision-making. These findings enrich the physical understanding of quantum amplitude encoding and quantum measurement outcomes, offering broad application prospects for representing and processing uncertain knowledge in pattern classification.