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Main Authors: Hagiwara, Ryo, Arai, Shunta, Takabe, Satoshi
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03518
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author Hagiwara, Ryo
Arai, Shunta
Takabe, Satoshi
author_facet Hagiwara, Ryo
Arai, Shunta
Takabe, Satoshi
contents Quantum annealing (QA) has attracted research interest as a sampler and combinatorial optimization problem (COP) solver. A recently proposed sampling-based solver for QA significantly reduces the required number of qubits, being capable of large COPs. In relation to this, a trainable sampling-based COP solver has been proposed that optimizes its internal parameters from a dataset by using a deep learning technique called deep unfolding. Although learning the internal parameters accelerates the convergence speed, the sampler in the trainable solver is restricted to using a classical sampler owing to the training cost. In this study, to utilize QA in the trainable solver, we propose classical-quantum transfer learning, where parameters are trained classically, and the trained parameters are used in the solver with QA. The results of numerical experiments demonstrate that the trainable quantum COP solver using classical-quantum transfer learning improves convergence speed and execution time over the original solver.
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spellingShingle Transfer Learning for Deep-Unfolded Combinatorial Optimization Solver with Quantum Annealer
Hagiwara, Ryo
Arai, Shunta
Takabe, Satoshi
Quantum Physics
Machine Learning
Quantum annealing (QA) has attracted research interest as a sampler and combinatorial optimization problem (COP) solver. A recently proposed sampling-based solver for QA significantly reduces the required number of qubits, being capable of large COPs. In relation to this, a trainable sampling-based COP solver has been proposed that optimizes its internal parameters from a dataset by using a deep learning technique called deep unfolding. Although learning the internal parameters accelerates the convergence speed, the sampler in the trainable solver is restricted to using a classical sampler owing to the training cost. In this study, to utilize QA in the trainable solver, we propose classical-quantum transfer learning, where parameters are trained classically, and the trained parameters are used in the solver with QA. The results of numerical experiments demonstrate that the trainable quantum COP solver using classical-quantum transfer learning improves convergence speed and execution time over the original solver.
title Transfer Learning for Deep-Unfolded Combinatorial Optimization Solver with Quantum Annealer
topic Quantum Physics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03518