Twisted hybrid algorithms for combinatorial optimization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00717v1
• Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 19:47:16 GMT
• Title: Twisted hybrid algorithms for combinatorial optimization
• Authors: Libor Caha, Alexander Kliesch, Robert Koenig
• Abstract summary: Proposed hybrid algorithms encode a cost function into a problem Hamiltonian and optimize its energy by varying over a set of states with low circuit complexity. We show that for levels $p=2,ldots, 6$, the level $p$ can be reduced by one while roughly maintaining the expected approximation ratio.
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• Abstract: Proposed hybrid algorithms encode a combinatorial cost function into a problem Hamiltonian and optimize its energy by varying over a set of states with low circuit complexity. Classical processing is typically only used for the choice of variational parameters following gradient descent. As a consequence, these approaches are limited by the descriptive power of the associated states. We argue that for certain combinatorial optimization problems, such algorithms can be hybridized further, thus harnessing the power of efficient non-local classical processing. Specifically, we consider combining a quantum variational ansatz with a greedy classical post-processing procedure for the MaxCut-problem on $3$-regular graphs. We show that the average cut-size produced by this method can be quantified in terms of the energy of a modified problem Hamiltonian. This motivates the consideration of an improved algorithm which variationally optimizes the energy of the modified Hamiltonian. We call this a twisted hybrid algorithm since the additional classical processing step is combined with a different choice of variational parameters. We exemplify the viability of this method using the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA), giving analytic lower bounds on the expected approximation ratios achieved by twisted QAOA. These show that the necessary non-locality of the quantum ansatz can be reduced compared to the original QAOA: We find that for levels $p=2,\ldots, 6$, the level $p$ can be reduced by one while roughly maintaining the expected approximation ratio. This reduces the circuit depth by $4$ and the number of variational parameters by $2$.

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