Efficient molecular conformation generation with quantum-inspired algorithm

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Autori principali: Li, Yunting, Cui, Xiaopeng, Xiong, Zhaoping, Zou, Zuoheng, Liu, Bowen, Wang, Bi-Ying, Shu, Runqiu, Zhu, Huangjun, Qiao, Nan, Yung, Man-Hong
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author Li, Yunting
Cui, Xiaopeng
Xiong, Zhaoping
Zou, Zuoheng
Liu, Bowen
Wang, Bi-Ying
Shu, Runqiu
Zhu, Huangjun
Qiao, Nan
Yung, Man-Hong
author_facet Li, Yunting
Cui, Xiaopeng
Xiong, Zhaoping
Zou, Zuoheng
Liu, Bowen
Wang, Bi-Ying
Shu, Runqiu
Zhu, Huangjun
Qiao, Nan
Yung, Man-Hong
contents Conformation generation, also known as molecular unfolding (MU), is a crucial step in structure-based drug design, remaining a challenging combinatorial optimization problem. Quantum annealing (QA) has shown great potential for solving certain combinatorial optimization problems over traditional classical methods such as simulated annealing (SA). However, a recent study showed that a 2000-qubit QA hardware was still unable to outperform SA for the MU problem. Here, we propose the use of quantum-inspired algorithm to solve the MU problem, in order to go beyond traditional SA. We introduce a highly-compact phase encoding method which can exponentially reduce the representation space, compared with the previous one-hot encoding method. For benchmarking, we tested this new approach on the public QM9 dataset generated by density functional theory (DFT). The root-mean-square deviation between the conformation determined by our approach and DFT is negligible (less than about 0.5 Angstrom), which underpins the validity of our approach. Furthermore, the median time-to-target metric can be reduced by a factor of five compared to SA. Additionally, we demonstrate a simulation experiment by MindQuantum using quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) to reach optimal results. These results indicate that quantum-inspired algorithms can be applied to solve practical problems even before quantum hardware become mature.
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spellingShingle Efficient molecular conformation generation with quantum-inspired algorithm
Li, Yunting
Cui, Xiaopeng
Xiong, Zhaoping
Zou, Zuoheng
Liu, Bowen
Wang, Bi-Ying
Shu, Runqiu
Zhu, Huangjun
Qiao, Nan
Yung, Man-Hong
Quantum Physics
Chemical Physics
Conformation generation, also known as molecular unfolding (MU), is a crucial step in structure-based drug design, remaining a challenging combinatorial optimization problem. Quantum annealing (QA) has shown great potential for solving certain combinatorial optimization problems over traditional classical methods such as simulated annealing (SA). However, a recent study showed that a 2000-qubit QA hardware was still unable to outperform SA for the MU problem. Here, we propose the use of quantum-inspired algorithm to solve the MU problem, in order to go beyond traditional SA. We introduce a highly-compact phase encoding method which can exponentially reduce the representation space, compared with the previous one-hot encoding method. For benchmarking, we tested this new approach on the public QM9 dataset generated by density functional theory (DFT). The root-mean-square deviation between the conformation determined by our approach and DFT is negligible (less than about 0.5 Angstrom), which underpins the validity of our approach. Furthermore, the median time-to-target metric can be reduced by a factor of five compared to SA. Additionally, we demonstrate a simulation experiment by MindQuantum using quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) to reach optimal results. These results indicate that quantum-inspired algorithms can be applied to solve practical problems even before quantum hardware become mature.
title Efficient molecular conformation generation with quantum-inspired algorithm
topic Quantum Physics
Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14101