Variational quantum algorithms

M Cerezo, A Arrasmith, R Babbush… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Applications such as simulating complicated quantum systems or solving large-scale linear
algebra problems are very challenging for classical computers, owing to the extremely high …

[HTML][HTML] The variational quantum eigensolver: a review of methods and best practices

J Tilly, H Chen, S Cao, D Picozzi, K Setia, Y Li, E Grant… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE), first developed by Peruzzo et al.(2014), has
received significant attention from the research community in recent years. It uses the …

Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning

M Cerezo, G Verdon, HY Huang, L Cincio… - Nature Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
At the intersection of machine learning and quantum computing, quantum machine learning
has the potential of accelerating data analysis, especially for quantum data, with …

Generalization in quantum machine learning from few training data

MC Caro, HY Huang, M Cerezo, K Sharma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Modern quantum machine learning (QML) methods involve variationally optimizing a
parameterized quantum circuit on a training data set, and subsequently making predictions …

Noise-induced barren plateaus in variational quantum algorithms

S Wang, E Fontana, M Cerezo, K Sharma… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) may be a path to quantum advantage on
Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. A natural question is whether noise …

Connecting ansatz expressibility to gradient magnitudes and barren plateaus

Z Holmes, K Sharma, M Cerezo, PJ Coles - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Parametrized quantum circuits serve as ansatze for solving variational problems and
provide a flexible paradigm for the programming of near-term quantum computers. Ideally …

Cost function dependent barren plateaus in shallow parametrized quantum circuits

M Cerezo, A Sone, T Volkoff, L Cincio… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) optimize the parameters θ of a parametrized
quantum circuit V (θ) to minimize a cost function C. While VQAs may enable practical …

Quantum variational algorithms are swamped with traps

ER Anschuetz, BT Kiani - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
One of the most important properties of classical neural networks is how surprisingly
trainable they are, though their training algorithms typically rely on optimizing complicated …

Theory of overparametrization in quantum neural networks

M Larocca, N Ju, D García-Martín, PJ Coles… - Nature Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
The prospect of achieving quantum advantage with quantum neural networks (QNNs) is
exciting. Understanding how QNN properties (for example, the number of parameters M) …

Theory for equivariant quantum neural networks

QT Nguyen, L Schatzki, P Braccia, M Ragone, PJ Coles… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Quantum neural network architectures that have little to no inductive biases are known to
face trainability and generalization issues. Inspired by a similar problem, recent …