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An Empirical Review of Optimization Techniques for Quantum Variational Circuits

@article{Lockwood2022AnER,
  title={An Empirical Review of Optimization Techniques for Quantum Variational Circuits},
  author={Owen Lockwood},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2022},
  volume={abs/2202.01389}
}
  • Owen Lockwood
  • Published 3 February 2022
  • Computer Science, Physics
  • ArXiv
Quantum Variational Circuits (QVCs) are often claimed as one of the most potent uses of both near term and long term quantum hardware. The standard approaches to optimizing these circuits rely on a classical system to compute the new parameters at every optimization step. However, this process can be extremely challenging, due to the nature of navigating the exponentially scaling complex Hilbert space, barren plateaus, and the noise present in all foreseeable quantum hardware. Although a… 
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