Enhancing the Trainability of Variational Quantum Circuits with Regularization Strategies

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Hauptverfasser: Zhuang, Jun, Cunningham, Jack, Guan, Chaowen
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author Zhuang, Jun
Cunningham, Jack
Guan, Chaowen
author_facet Zhuang, Jun
Cunningham, Jack
Guan, Chaowen
contents In the era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ), variational quantum circuits (VQCs) have been widely applied in various domains, demonstrating the potential advantages of quantum circuits over classical models. Similar to classic models, VQCs can be optimized by various gradient-based methods. However, the optimization may get stuck in barren plateaus initially or trapped in saddle points during training. These gradient-related issues can severely impact the trainability of VQCs. In this work, we propose a strategy that regularizes model parameters with prior knowledge of the training data and Gaussian noise diffusion. We conduct ablation studies to verify the effectiveness of our strategy across four public datasets and demonstrate that our method can improve the trainability of VQCs against the above-mentioned gradient issues.
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spellingShingle Enhancing the Trainability of Variational Quantum Circuits with Regularization Strategies
Zhuang, Jun
Cunningham, Jack
Guan, Chaowen
Quantum Physics
Machine Learning
In the era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ), variational quantum circuits (VQCs) have been widely applied in various domains, demonstrating the potential advantages of quantum circuits over classical models. Similar to classic models, VQCs can be optimized by various gradient-based methods. However, the optimization may get stuck in barren plateaus initially or trapped in saddle points during training. These gradient-related issues can severely impact the trainability of VQCs. In this work, we propose a strategy that regularizes model parameters with prior knowledge of the training data and Gaussian noise diffusion. We conduct ablation studies to verify the effectiveness of our strategy across four public datasets and demonstrate that our method can improve the trainability of VQCs against the above-mentioned gradient issues.
title Enhancing the Trainability of Variational Quantum Circuits with Regularization Strategies
topic Quantum Physics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01606