Qumat 0.4 Released

[andrewmusselman]

The Apache Mahout PMC is pleased to announce the release of Mahout Qumat 0.4. Mahout is a distributed linear algebra framework, mathematically expressive DSL, and quantum computing layer designed to let mathematicians, statisticians, and data scientists quickly implement their own algorithms.

To get started with Qumat, download the release artifacts and signatures from https://downloads.apache.org/mahout/0.4/.

Many thanks to the contributors and committers who were part of this release.

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
This release ships our new quantum computing layer named Qumat, which ties together available frameworks for building quantum circuits into a single interface for building circuits and writing machine learning algorithms on existing quantum simulators and hardware.

STATS
A total of 34 issues are addressed in this release [1][2].

GETTING STARTED
Download the release artifacts and signatures at https://mahout.apache.org/download/downloads.html. The examples directory contains several working examples of the core functionality available in Qumat. There are a few ways to use the library including running locally or in notebooks linked from examples in GitHub, so please ask on the mailing lists for help if anything is not where you expect it.

FUTURE PLANS
0.5

As the project moves towards a 0.5 release, we are working on the following:

• Measurements
• Circuit drawings
• Algorithm development

CONTRIBUTING
If you are interested in contributing, please see our Community Overview [3] page or contact us via email at [email protected].

CREDITS
As with every release, we wish to thank all of the users and contributors to Mahout. Please see the JIRA closed/resolved issues [1] and GitHub closed issues [2] for individual credits. Big thanks to Trevor Grant for doing the bulk of the effort designing and building Qumat in this release.

KNOWN ISSUES:

• Some notebooks in the examples directory are works in progress

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2213?jql=project%20%3D%20MAHOUT%20AND%20status%20in%20(Resolved%2C%20Closed)%20AND%20component%20%3D%20qumat
[2] https://github.com/apache/mahout/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed
[3] https://mahout.apache.org/community/