Graph-Based Bayesian Optimization for Quantum Circuit Architecture Search with Uncertainty Calibrated Surrogates

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09586v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:23:04 GMT
• Title: Graph-Based Bayesian Optimization for Quantum Circuit Architecture Search with Uncertainty Calibrated Surrogates
• Authors: Prashant Kumar Choudhary, Nouhaila Innan, Muhammad Shafique, Rajeev Singh,
• Abstract summary: We present an automated framework that discovers and refines variational quantum circuits.<n>Circuits are represented as graphs and mutated and selected via an expected improvement acquisition function.<n>The GNN-guided pipeline consistently finds circuits with lower complexity and competitive or superior classification accuracy.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantum circuit design is a key bottleneck for practical quantum machine learning on complex, real-world data. We present an automated framework that discovers and refines variational quantum circuits (VQCs) using graph-based Bayesian optimization with a graph neural network (GNN) surrogate. Circuits are represented as graphs and mutated and selected via an expected improvement acquisition function informed by surrogate uncertainty with Monte Carlo dropout. Candidate circuits are evaluated with a hybrid quantum-classical variational classifier on the next generation firewall telemetry and network internet of things (NF-ToN-IoT-V2) cybersecurity dataset, after feature selection and scaling for quantum embedding. We benchmark our pipeline against an MLP-based surrogate, random search, and greedy GNN selection. The GNN-guided optimizer consistently finds circuits with lower complexity and competitive or superior classification accuracy compared to all baselines. Robustness is assessed via a noise study across standard quantum noise channels, including amplitude damping, phase damping, thermal relaxation, depolarizing, and readout bit flip noise. The implementation is fully reproducible, with time benchmarking and export of best found circuits, providing a scalable and interpretable route to automated quantum circuit discovery.

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