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most citedBarren Plateaus in Variational Quantum Computing

221 citations · 602 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

quant-ph2026

The cost of simulating classically tractable quantum circuits and dynamics

Su Yeon Chang, Supanut Thanasilp, Zoë Holmes +1

Determining whether a quantum evolution can be efficiently simulated classically is central to understanding the boundary between classical and quantum computation. However, polyno…

quant-ph2026

Double-bracket quantum algorithms for thermal state preparation

Andrew Wright, Reyhaneh Aghaei Saem, Supanut Thanasilp +2

We propose quantum algorithms for preparing thermal states via the simulation of the thermofield double states. The key idea is to leverage double-bracket quantum algorithms to imp…

quant-ph2026★ 1 cited

IQP Born Machines under Data-dependent and Agnostic Initialization Strategies

Sacha Lerch, Joseph Bowles, Ricard Puig +3

Quantum circuit Born machines based on instantaneous quantum polynomial-time (IQP) circuits are natural candidates for quantum generative modeling, both because of their probabilis…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Pitfalls when tackling the exponential concentration of parameterized quantum models

Reyhaneh Aghaei Saem, Behrang Tafreshi, Zoë Holmes +1

Identifying scalable circuit architectures remains a central challenge in variational quantum computing and quantum machine learning. Many approaches have been proposed to mitigate…

quant-ph2025

Connecting phases of matter to the flatness of the loss landscape in analog variational quantum algorithms

Kasidit Srimahajariyapong, Supanut Thanasilp, Thiparat Chotibut

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) promise near-term quantum advantage, yet parametrized quantum states commonly built from the digital gate-based approach often suffer from sca…

quant-ph2025

Role of scrambling and noise in temporal information processing with quantum systems

Weijie Xiong, Zoë Holmes, Armando Angrisani +3

Scrambling quantum systems have attracted attention as effective substrates for temporal information processing. Here we consider a quantum reservoir processing framework that capt…

quant-ph2025

A unifying account of warm start guarantees for patches of quantum landscapes

Hela Mhiri, Ricard Puig, Sacha Lerch +4

Barren plateaus are fundamentally a statement about quantum loss landscapes on average but there can, and generally will, exist patches of barren plateau landscapes with substantia…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Efficient quantum-enhanced classical simulation for patches of quantum landscapes

Sacha Lerch, Ricard Puig, Manuel S. Rudolph +5

Understanding the capabilities of classical simulation methods is key to identifying where quantum computers are advantageous. Not only does this ensure that quantum computers are…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Latent Style-based Quantum GAN for high-quality Image Generation

Su Yeon Chang, Supanut Thanasilp, Bertrand Le Saux +2

Quantum generative modeling is among the promising candidates for achieving a practical advantage in data analysis. Nevertheless, one key challenge is to generate large-size images…

quant-ph2024★ 221 cited

Barren Plateaus in Variational Quantum Computing

Martin Larocca, Supanut Thanasilp, Samson Wang +7

Variational quantum computing offers a flexible computational paradigm with applications in diverse areas. However, a key obstacle to realizing their potential is the Barren Platea…

quant-ph2024★ 27 cited

Variational quantum simulation: a case study for understanding warm starts

Ricard Puig, Marc Drudis, Supanut Thanasilp +1

The barren plateau phenomenon, characterized by loss gradients that vanish exponentially with system size, poses a challenge to scaling variational quantum algorithms. Here we expl…

quant-ph2023★ 29 cited

On fundamental aspects of quantum extreme learning machines

Weijie Xiong, Giorgio Facelli, Mehrad Sahebi +4

Quantum Extreme Learning Machines (QELMs) have emerged as a promising framework for quantum machine learning. Their appeal lies in the rich feature map induced by the dynamics of a…

quant-ph2023★ 78 cited

Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability?

M. Cerezo, Martin Larocca, Diego García-Martín +9

A large amount of effort has recently been put into understanding the barren plateau phenomenon. In this perspective article, we face the increasingly loud elephant in the room and…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

A Unified Framework for Trace-induced Quantum Kernels

Beng Yee Gan, Daniel Leykam, Supanut Thanasilp

Quantum kernel methods are promising candidates for achieving a practical quantum advantage for certain machine learning tasks. Similar to classical machine learning, an exact form…

quant-ph2023★ 41 cited

Trainability barriers and opportunities in quantum generative modeling

Manuel S. Rudolph, Sacha Lerch, Supanut Thanasilp +5

Quantum generative models provide inherently efficient sampling strategies and thus show promise for achieving an advantage using quantum hardware. In this work, we investigate the…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 9 cited

Quantifying Quantum Computational Advantage on a Processor of Ultracold Atoms

Yong-Guang Zheng, Ying-Chao Shen, Wei-Yong Zhang +15

Nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems is challenging for classical computing, providing opportunities for demonstrating practical quantum computational advantage wit…

quant-ph2022★ 7 cited

Exponential concentration in quantum kernel methods

Supanut Thanasilp, Samson Wang, M. Cerezo +1

Kernel methods in Quantum Machine Learning (QML) have recently gained significant attention as a potential candidate for achieving a quantum advantage in data analysis. Among other…

quant-ph2021★ 69 cited

Subtleties in the trainability of quantum machine learning models

Supanut Thanasilp, Samson Wang, Nhat A. Nghiem +2

A new paradigm for data science has emerged, with quantum data, quantum models, and quantum computational devices. This field, called Quantum Machine Learning (QML), aims to achiev…

quant-ph2020★ 10 cited

Quantum supremacy and quantum phase transitions

Supanut Thanasilp, Jirawat Tangpanitanon, Marc-Antoine Lemonde +2

Demonstrating the ability of existing quantum platforms to perform certain computational tasks intractable to classical computers represents a cornerstone in quantum computing. Des…

quant-ph2020★ 43 cited

Qubit-efficient encoding schemes for binary optimisation problems

Benjamin Tan, Marc-Antoine Lemonde, Supanut Thanasilp +2

We propose and analyze a set of variational quantum algorithms for solving quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems where a problem consisting of classical variab…

quant-ph2020★ 42 cited

Expressibility and trainability of parameterized analog quantum systems for machine learning applications

Jirawat Tangpanitanon, Supanut Thanasilp, Ninnat Dangniam +2

Parameterized quantum evolution is the main ingredient in variational quantum algorithms for near-term quantum devices. In digital quantum computing, it has been shown that random…

quant-ph2020★ 7 cited

Quantum supremacy in driven quantum many-body systems

Jirawat Tangpanitanon, Supanut Thanasilp, Marc-Antoine Lemonde +2

A crucial milestone in the field of quantum simulation and computation is to demonstrate that a quantum device can compute certain tasks that are impossible to reproduce by a class…

quant-ph2019★ 4 cited

Quantum supremacy with analog quantum processors for material science and machine learning

Jirawat Tangpanitanon, Supanut Thanasilp, Marc-Antoine Lemonde +1

Quantum supremacy is the ability of quantum processors to outperform classical computers at certain tasks. In digital random quantum circuit approaches for supremacy, the output di…