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Main Authors: Zhang, Zewen, Paredes, Roger, Sundar, Bhuvanesh, Quiroga, David, Kyrillidis, Anastasios, Duenas-Osorio, Leonardo, Pagano, Guido, Hazzard, Kaden R. A.
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02585
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author Zhang, Zewen
Paredes, Roger
Sundar, Bhuvanesh
Quiroga, David
Kyrillidis, Anastasios
Duenas-Osorio, Leonardo
Pagano, Guido
Hazzard, Kaden R. A.
author_facet Zhang, Zewen
Paredes, Roger
Sundar, Bhuvanesh
Quiroga, David
Kyrillidis, Anastasios
Duenas-Osorio, Leonardo
Pagano, Guido
Hazzard, Kaden R. A.
contents The SAT problem is a prototypical NP-complete problem of fundamental importance in computational complexity theory with many applications in science and engineering; as such, it has long served as an essential benchmark for classical and quantum algorithms. This study shows numerical evidence for a quadratic speedup of the Grover Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (G-QAOA) over random sampling for finding all solutions to 3-SAT problems (All-SAT). G-QAOA is less resource-intensive and more adaptable for 3-SAT and Max-SAT than Grover's algorithm, and it surpasses conventional QAOA in its ability to sample all solutions. We show these benefits by classical simulations of many-round G-QAOA on thousands of random 3-SAT instances. We also observe G-QAOA advantages on the IonQ Aria quantum computer for small instances, finding that current hardware suffices to determine and sample all solutions. Interestingly, a single-angle-pair constraint that uses the same pair of angles at each G-QAOA round greatly reduces the classical computational overhead of optimizing the G-QAOA angles while preserving its quadratic speedup. We also find parameter clustering of the angles. The single-angle-pair protocol and parameter clustering significantly reduce obstacles to classical optimization of the G-QAOA angles.
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spellingShingle Grover-QAOA for 3-SAT: Quadratic Speedup, Fair-Sampling, and Parameter Clustering
Zhang, Zewen
Paredes, Roger
Sundar, Bhuvanesh
Quiroga, David
Kyrillidis, Anastasios
Duenas-Osorio, Leonardo
Pagano, Guido
Hazzard, Kaden R. A.
Quantum Physics
Computational Physics
The SAT problem is a prototypical NP-complete problem of fundamental importance in computational complexity theory with many applications in science and engineering; as such, it has long served as an essential benchmark for classical and quantum algorithms. This study shows numerical evidence for a quadratic speedup of the Grover Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (G-QAOA) over random sampling for finding all solutions to 3-SAT problems (All-SAT). G-QAOA is less resource-intensive and more adaptable for 3-SAT and Max-SAT than Grover's algorithm, and it surpasses conventional QAOA in its ability to sample all solutions. We show these benefits by classical simulations of many-round G-QAOA on thousands of random 3-SAT instances. We also observe G-QAOA advantages on the IonQ Aria quantum computer for small instances, finding that current hardware suffices to determine and sample all solutions. Interestingly, a single-angle-pair constraint that uses the same pair of angles at each G-QAOA round greatly reduces the classical computational overhead of optimizing the G-QAOA angles while preserving its quadratic speedup. We also find parameter clustering of the angles. The single-angle-pair protocol and parameter clustering significantly reduce obstacles to classical optimization of the G-QAOA angles.
title Grover-QAOA for 3-SAT: Quadratic Speedup, Fair-Sampling, and Parameter Clustering
topic Quantum Physics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02585