Escaping Barren Plateau: Co-Exploration of Quantum Circuit Parameters and Architectures
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| author | Liu, Yipei Song, Yuhong Li, Jinyang Guan, Qiang Lu, Cheng-chang Lin, Youzuo Jiang, Weiwen |
| author_facet | Liu, Yipei Song, Yuhong Li, Jinyang Guan, Qiang Lu, Cheng-chang Lin, Youzuo Jiang, Weiwen |
| contents | Barren plateaus (BP), characterized by exponentially vanishing gradients that hinder the training of variational quantum circuits (VQC), present a pervasive and critical challenge in applying variational quantum algorithms to real-world applications. It is widely recognized that the BP problem becomes more pronounced with an increase in the number of parameters. This work demonstrates that the BP problem manifests at different scales depending on the specific application, highlighting the absence of a universal VQC ansatz capable of resolving the BP issue across all applications. Consequently, there is an imminent need for an automated tool to design and optimize VQC architectures tailored to specific applications. To close the gap, this paper takes Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQEs) as a vehicle, and we propose a novel quantum circuit parameter and architecture co-exploration framework, namely AntiBP. Experimental results demonstrate that AntiBP effectively avoids the BP issue for circuits that are not under-parameterized in noise-free environments. Furthermore, AntiBP significantly outperforms baseline VQEs in noisy environments. |
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| spellingShingle | Escaping Barren Plateau: Co-Exploration of Quantum Circuit Parameters and Architectures Liu, Yipei Song, Yuhong Li, Jinyang Guan, Qiang Lu, Cheng-chang Lin, Youzuo Jiang, Weiwen Quantum Physics Barren plateaus (BP), characterized by exponentially vanishing gradients that hinder the training of variational quantum circuits (VQC), present a pervasive and critical challenge in applying variational quantum algorithms to real-world applications. It is widely recognized that the BP problem becomes more pronounced with an increase in the number of parameters. This work demonstrates that the BP problem manifests at different scales depending on the specific application, highlighting the absence of a universal VQC ansatz capable of resolving the BP issue across all applications. Consequently, there is an imminent need for an automated tool to design and optimize VQC architectures tailored to specific applications. To close the gap, this paper takes Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQEs) as a vehicle, and we propose a novel quantum circuit parameter and architecture co-exploration framework, namely AntiBP. Experimental results demonstrate that AntiBP effectively avoids the BP issue for circuits that are not under-parameterized in noise-free environments. Furthermore, AntiBP significantly outperforms baseline VQEs in noisy environments. |
| title | Escaping Barren Plateau: Co-Exploration of Quantum Circuit Parameters and Architectures |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13275 |