# Quantum clustering algorithm in Julia

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**Category:** Quantum\
**Created:** [July 21, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quantum-clustering-algorithm-in-julia/65061 "2021-07-21T19:18:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![j\_u](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/j_u/32/219081_2.png) [@j\_u](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/j_u)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quantum-clustering-algorithm-in-julia/65061/1 "2021-07-21T19:18:09Z")

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Hi,

Is there any example of quantum clustering algorithm written in Julia? Ideally something that is automatically determining number of clusters?

This is my first step into quantum computing so I hope the question is not entirely from a different universe. I would like to test it, hopefully use it on a daily basis in one of my programs.

j\_u

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**Author:** ![Roger-luo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/roger-luo/32/3399_2.png) [@Roger-luo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Roger-luo)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quantum-clustering-algorithm-in-julia/65061/2 "2021-07-27T03:59:23Z")

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I don’t think you will benefit from it for using it as daily basis tho, whether there is a quantum clustering has an advantage (say exponentially faster) on real-world data is not known yet. Or on the other hand, if there is a quantum clustering algorithm that provides better results is not known yet. at least within my own knowledge. There are a few review papers on ICML etc. such as [https://icml.cc/imls/conferences/2007/proceedings/papers/518.pdf](https://icml.cc/imls/conferences/2007/proceedings/papers/518.pdf) if you want to know the details, some are based on Grover search algorithm, which you can find implementation in Yao: [https://github.com/QuantumBFS/QuAlgorithmZoo.jl/tree/master/examples/Grover](https://github.com/QuantumBFS/QuAlgorithmZoo.jl/tree/master/examples/Grover)

but we don’t have a quantum clustering algorithm implement, but if someone wants to try you are definitely welcome to contribute to the algorithm zoo repo.

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**Author:** ![j\_u](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/j_u/32/219081_2.png) [@j\_u](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/j_u)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quantum-clustering-algorithm-in-julia/65061/3 "2021-08-23T15:56:32Z")

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Thank you for the information and really sorry for a delay in reply (holiday time). I do calculations on an advanced ensemble data however as for the clustering I am operating on small preprocessed amount of data so the speed is not a crucial factor for me. I was looking at it mostly out of curiosity and due to the reason that this kind of computing might be suitable for a hobby project I am interested in, thus was my question. I will review provided documents and also take a look at some of my books as I saw there quantum clustering examples written in Python and other languages. I hope to get deeper into a subject related to quantum clustering, however, I would like to emphasize that writing a package, even not quantum, would be a very challenging topic for me as there seem to be a lot of new things for me associated with this subject so as for now, I am not sure about it.