Quantum machine learning investigates how quantum computers can be used
for data-driven prediction and decision making. The books summarises and
conceptualises ideas of this relatively young discipline for an audience
of computer scientists and physicists from a graduate level upwards. It
aims at providing a starting point for those new to the field,
showcasing a toy example of a quantum machine learning algorithm and
providing a detailed introduction of the two parent disciplines. For
more advanced readers, the book discusses topics such as data encoding
into quantum states, quantum algorithms and routines for inference and
optimisation, as well as the construction and analysis of genuine
``quantum learning models''. A special focus lies on supervised
learning, and applications for near-term quantum devices.