A unified theory of barren plateaus for deep parametrized quantum circuits

M Ragone, BN Bakalov, F Sauvage… - arXiv e …, 2023 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Variational quantum computing schemes have received considerable attention due to their
high versatility and potential to make practical use of near-term quantum devices. At their …

A review of barren plateaus in variational quantum computing

M Larocca, S Thanasilp, S Wang, K Sharma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Variational quantum computing offers a flexible computational paradigm with applications in
diverse areas. However, a key obstacle to realizing their potential is the Barren Plateau (BP) …

Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability? Or, why we need to rethink variational quantum computing

M Cerezo, M Larocca, D García-Martín, NL Diaz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A large amount of effort has recently been put into understanding the barren plateau
phenomenon. In this perspective article, we face the increasingly loud elephant in the room …

A Lie algebraic theory of barren plateaus for deep parameterized quantum circuits

M Ragone, BN Bakalov, F Sauvage, AF Kemper… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Variational quantum computing schemes train a loss function by sending an initial state
through a parametrized quantum circuit, and measuring the expectation value of some …

Showcasing a barren plateau theory beyond the dynamical lie algebra

NL Diaz, D García-Martín, S Kazi, M Larocca… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Barren plateaus have emerged as a pivotal challenge for variational quantum computing.
Our understanding of this phenomenon underwent a transformative shift with the recent …

Quantum policy gradient algorithm with optimized action decoding

N Meyer, D Scherer, A Plinge… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Quantum machine learning implemented by variational quantum circuits (VQCs) is
considered a promising concept for the noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing era …

ResQNets: a residual approach for mitigating barren plateaus in quantum neural networks

M Kashif, S Al-Kuwari - EPJ Quantum Technology, 2024 - epjqt.epj.org
The barren plateau problem in quantum neural networks (QNNs) is a significant challenge
that hinders the practical success of QNNs. In this paper, we introduce residual quantum …

Quantum Computational Intelligence Techniques: A Scientometric Mapping

M Arora, K Gupta - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Computational intelligence has previously demonstrated its existence beyond the limitations
of binary variables and Turing Machines. Using quantum concepts, Deutsch (1985) and …

Alleviating barren plateaus in parameterized quantum machine learning circuits: Investigating advanced parameter initialization strategies

M Kashif, M Rashid, S Al-Kuwari… - … Design, Automation & …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) have emerged as a foundational element in the
development and applications of quantum algorithms. However, when initialized with …

The unified effect of data encoding, ansatz expressibility and entanglement on the trainability of hqnns

M Kashif, S Al-Kuwari - International Journal of Parallel, Emergent …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Recent advances in quantum computing and machine learning have brought about a
promising intersection of these two fields, leading to the emergence of quantum machine …