QIOT-WI: quantum-inspired weight initialization for convolutional neural networks
摘要
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved strong performance across various vision tasks, but their training remains sensitive to weight initialization. Traditional methods offer reasonable convergence but often suffer from vanishing gradients, poor variance control, or limited adaptability in deeper architectures. This paper introduces quantum-inspired optimal transport-based weight initialization (QIOT-WI), a method that combines uniform variance-scaled initialization with quantum-inspired perturbation and optimal transport mapping to improve weight distribution. The proposed approach aims to stabilize gradient flow and accelerate convergence without altering network design. Experiments on benchmark datasets across diverse vision tasks confirm that QIOT-WI provides consistent improvements in convergence stability and classification performance over conventional methods.