Adaptive pruning-based optimization of parameterized quantum circuits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00629v1
• Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 18:14:11 GMT
• Title: Adaptive pruning-based optimization of parameterized quantum circuits
• Authors: Sukin Sim, Jonathan Romero, Jerome F. Gonthier, Alexander A. Kunitsa
• Abstract summary: Variisy hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are powerful tools to maximize the use of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices. We propose a strategy for such ansatze used in variational quantum algorithms, which we call "Efficient Circuit Training" (PECT) Instead of optimizing all of the ansatz parameters at once, PECT launches a sequence of variational algorithms.
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• Abstract: Variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are powerful tools to maximize the use of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices. While past studies have developed powerful and expressive ansatze, their near-term applications have been limited by the difficulty of optimizing in the vast parameter space. In this work, we propose a heuristic optimization strategy for such ansatze used in variational quantum algorithms, which we call "Parameter-Efficient Circuit Training" (PECT). Instead of optimizing all of the ansatz parameters at once, PECT launches a sequence of variational algorithms, in which each iteration of the algorithm activates and optimizes a subset of the total parameter set. To update the parameter subset between iterations, we adapt the dynamic sparse reparameterization scheme by Mostafa et al. (arXiv:1902.05967). We demonstrate PECT for the Variational Quantum Eigensolver, in which we benchmark unitary coupled-cluster ansatze including UCCSD and k-UpCCGSD, as well as the low-depth circuit ansatz (LDCA), to estimate ground state energies of molecular systems. We additionally use a layerwise variant of PECT to optimize a hardware-efficient circuit for the Sycamore processor to estimate the ground state energy densities of the one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model. From our numerical data, we find that PECT can enable optimizations of certain ansatze that were previously difficult to converge and more generally can improve the performance of variational algorithms by reducing the optimization runtime and/or the depth of circuits that encode the solution candidate(s).

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