A review of barren plateaus in variational quantum computing

M Larocca, S Thanasilp, S Wang, K Sharma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Variational quantum computing offers a flexible computational paradigm with applications in
diverse areas. However, a key obstacle to realizing their potential is the Barren Plateau (BP) …

Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability? Or, why we need to rethink variational quantum computing

M Cerezo, M Larocca, D García-Martín, NL Diaz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A large amount of effort has recently been put into understanding the barren plateau
phenomenon. In this perspective article, we face the increasingly loud elephant in the room …

Symmetry-invariant quantum machine learning force fields

INM Le, O Kiss, J Schuhmacher, I Tavernelli… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Machine learning techniques are essential tools to compute efficient, yet accurate, force
fields for atomistic simulations. This approach has recently been extended to incorporate …

Effects of noise on the overparametrization of quantum neural networks

D García-Martín, M Larocca, M Cerezo - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Overparametrization is one of the most surprising and notorious phenomena in machine
learning. Recently, there have been several efforts to study if, and how, quantum neural …

Noise-induced shallow circuits and absence of barren plateaus

AA Mele, A Angrisani, S Ghosh, S Khatri… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Motivated by realistic hardware considerations of the pre-fault-tolerant era, we
comprehensively study the impact of uncorrected noise on quantum circuits. We first show …

Improving Quantum Approximate Optimization by Noise-Directed Adaptive Remapping

FB Maciejewski, J Biamonte, S Hadfield… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present\emph {Noise-Directed Adaptive Remapping}(NDAR), a heuristic meta-algorithm
for approximately solving binary optimization problems by leveraging certain types of noise …

Theoretical framework for quantum associative memories

A Labay-Mora, E Fiorelli, R Zambrini… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Associative memory refers to the ability to relate a memory with an input and targets the
restoration of corrupted patterns. It has been intensively studied in classical physical …

Investigating and Mitigating Barren Plateaus in Variational Quantum Circuits: A Survey

J Cunningham, J Zhuang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17706, 2024 - arxiv.org
In recent years, variational quantum circuits (VQCs) have been widely explored to advance
quantum circuits against classic models on various domains, such as quantum chemistry …

Characterization and thermometry of dissapatively stabilized steady states

GS Grattan, AM Liguori-Schremp, D Pérez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work we study the properties of dissipatively stabilized steady states of noisy quantum
algorithms, exploring the extent to which they can be well approximated as thermal …

arXiv: Symmetry-invariant quantum machine learning force fields

INM Le, O Kiss, F Tacchino, I Tavernelli… - 2023 - cds.cern.ch
Abstract Machine learning techniques are essential tools to compute efficient, yet accurate,
force fields for atomistic simulations. This approach has recently been extended to …