Trainability Analysis of Quantum Optimization Algorithms from a Bayesian Lens

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06270v1
• Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:56:28 GMT
• Title: Trainability Analysis of Quantum Optimization Algorithms from a Bayesian Lens
• Authors: Yanqi Song, Yusen Wu, Sujuan Qin, Qiaoyan Wen, Jingbo B. Wang, Fei Gao
• Abstract summary: We show that a noiseless QAOA circuit with a depth of $tildemathtlog nright)$ can be trained efficiently. Our results offer theoretical performance of quantum algorithms in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era.
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• Abstract: The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is an extensively studied variational quantum algorithm utilized for solving optimization problems on near-term quantum devices. A significant focus is placed on determining the effectiveness of training the $n$-qubit QAOA circuit, i.e., whether the optimization error can converge to a constant level as the number of optimization iterations scales polynomially with the number of qubits. In realistic scenarios, the landscape of the corresponding QAOA objective function is generally non-convex and contains numerous local optima. In this work, motivated by the favorable performance of Bayesian optimization in handling non-convex functions, we theoretically investigate the trainability of the QAOA circuit through the lens of the Bayesian approach. This lens considers the corresponding QAOA objective function as a sample drawn from a specific Gaussian process. Specifically, we focus on two scenarios: the noiseless QAOA circuit and the noisy QAOA circuit subjected to local Pauli channels. Our first result demonstrates that the noiseless QAOA circuit with a depth of $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}\left(\sqrt{\log n}\right)$ can be trained efficiently, based on the widely accepted assumption that either the left or right slice of each block in the circuit forms a local 1-design. Furthermore, we show that if each quantum gate is affected by a $q$-strength local Pauli channel with the noise strength range of $1/{\rm poly} (n)$ to 0.1, the noisy QAOA circuit with a depth of $\mathcal{O}\left(\log n/\log(1/q)\right)$ can also be trained efficiently. Our results offer valuable insights into the theoretical performance of quantum optimization algorithms in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era.

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