Geometric Optimization on Lie Groups: A Lie-Theoretic Explanation of Barren Plateau Mitigation for Variational Quantum Algorithms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02078v1
• Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:02:48 GMT
• Title: Geometric Optimization on Lie Groups: A Lie-Theoretic Explanation of Barren Plateau Mitigation for Variational Quantum Algorithms
• Authors: Zhehao Yi, Rahul Bhadani,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a geometric viewpoint that describes how the parameters produced by neural networks evolve during training.<n>Our analysis shows that these parameters follow smooth and efficient paths that avoid the flat regions in the training that cause barren plateaus.<n>This provides a computational explanation for the improved trainability observed in recent neural network-assisted quantum learning methods.
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• Abstract: Barren plateaus, which means the training gradients become extremely small, pose a major challenge in optimizing parameterized quantum circuits, often making the learning process impractically slow or stall. This work shows why using neural networks to generate quantum circuit parameters helps overcome this difficulty. We introduce a geometric viewpoint that describes how the parameters produced by neural networks evolve during training. Our analysis shows that these parameters follow smooth and efficient paths that avoid the flat regions in the training that cause barren plateaus. This provides a computational explanation for the improved trainability observed in recent neural network-assisted quantum learning methods. Overall, our findings bridge ideas from quantum machine learning and computational optimization, offering new insight into the structure of quantum models and guiding future approaches for designing more trainable quantum circuits or parameter initialization.

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