Mean-Field Approximate Optimization Algorithm

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00329v2
• Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:27:51 GMT
• Title: Mean-Field Approximate Optimization Algorithm
• Authors: Aditi Misra-Spieldenner, Tim Bode, Peter K. Schuhmacher, Tobias Stollenwerk, Dmitry Bagrets, and Frank K. Wilhelm
• Abstract summary: Mean-field Approximate Optimization Algorithm (mean-field AOA) developed by replacing quantum evolution of QAOA with classical spin dynamics. We benchmark its performance against the QAOA on the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model and the partition problem. Our algorithm can thus serve as a tool to delineate optimization problems that can be solved classically from those that cannot.
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• Abstract: The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is suggested as a promising application on early quantum computers. Here, a quantum-inspired classical algorithm, the mean-field Approximate Optimization Algorithm (mean-field AOA), is developed by replacing the quantum evolution of the QAOA with classical spin dynamics through the mean-field approximation. Due to the alternating structure of the QAOA, this classical dynamics can be found exactly for any number of QAOA layers. We benchmark its performance against the QAOA on the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model and the partition problem, and find that the mean-field AOA outperforms the QAOA in both cases for most instances. Our algorithm can thus serve as a tool to delineate optimization problems that can be solved classically from those that cannot, i.e. we believe that it will help to identify instances where a true quantum advantage can be expected from the QAOA. To quantify quantum fluctuations around the mean-field trajectories, we solve an effective scattering problem in time, which is characterized by a spectrum of time-dependent Lyapunov exponents. These provide an indicator for the hardness of a given optimization problem relative to the mean-field AOA.

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