Iterative-Free Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Using Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09888v1
• Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 14:05:11 GMT
• Title: Iterative-Free Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Using Neural Networks
• Authors: Ohad Amosy, Tamuz Danzig, Ely Porat, Gal Chechik and Adi Makmal
• Abstract summary: We propose a practical method that uses a simple, fully connected neural network to find better parameters tailored to a new given problem instance. Our method is consistently the fastest to converge while also the best final result.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a leading iterative variational quantum algorithm for heuristically solving combinatorial optimization problems. A large portion of the computational effort in QAOA is spent by the optimization steps, which require many executions of the quantum circuit. Therefore, there is active research focusing on finding better initial circuit parameters, which would reduce the number of required iterations and hence the overall execution time. While existing methods for parameter initialization have shown great success, they often offer a single set of parameters for all problem instances. We propose a practical method that uses a simple, fully connected neural network that leverages previous executions of QAOA to find better initialization parameters tailored to a new given problem instance. We benchmark state-of-the-art initialization methods for solving the MaxCut problem of Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs using QAOA and show that our method is consistently the fastest to converge while also yielding the best final result. Furthermore, the parameters predicted by the neural network are shown to match very well with the fully optimized parameters, to the extent that no iterative steps are required, thereby effectively realizing an iterative-free QAOA scheme.

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