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most citedConnecting ansatz expressibility to gradient magnitudes and barren plateaus

627 citations · 1.6k across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

quant-ph2026

Exponentially many initializations to avoid barren plateaus

Ankit Kulshrestha, Ricard Puig, Diego García-Martín +4

Barren plateaus are stated as an average-case phenomenon: pick an ansatz, initialize it naively, and concentration follows. This has led to the common view that a potential cure fo…

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-ph2023★ 4 cited

High-fidelity dimer excitations using quantum hardware

Norhan M. Eassa, Joe Gibbs, Zoe Holmes +7

Many-body entangled quantum spin systems exhibit emergent phenomena such as topological quantum spin liquids with distinct excitation spectra accessed in inelastic neutron scatteri…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

The power and limitations of learning quantum dynamics incoherently

Sofiene Jerbi, Joe Gibbs, Manuel S. Rudolph +4

Quantum process learning is emerging as an important tool to study quantum systems. While studied extensively in coherent frameworks, where the target and model system can share qu…

quant-ph2023★ 11 cited

Large-scale simulations of Floquet physics on near-term quantum computers

Timo Eckstein, Refik Mansuroglu, Piotr Czarnik +5

Periodically driven quantum systems exhibit a diverse set of phenomena but are more challenging to simulate than their equilibrium counterparts. Here, we introduce the Quantum High…

quant-ph2022★ 30 cited

Quantum Mixed State Compiling

Nic Ezzell, Elliott M. Ball, Aliza U. Siddiqui +4

The task of learning a quantum circuit to prepare a given mixed state is a fundamental quantum subroutine. We present a variational quantum algorithm (VQA) to learn mixed states wh…

quant-ph2022★ 34 cited

Dynamical simulation via quantum machine learning with provable generalization

Joe Gibbs, Zoë Holmes, Matthias C. Caro +5

Much attention has been paid to dynamical simulation and quantum machine learning (QML) independently as applications for quantum advantage, while the possibility of using QML to e…

quant-ph2022★ 73 cited

Out-of-distribution generalization for learning quantum dynamics

Matthias C. Caro, Hsin-Yuan Huang, Nicholas Ezzell +5

Generalization bounds are a critical tool to assess the training data requirements of Quantum Machine Learning (QML). Recent work has established guarantees for in-distribution gen…

quant-ph2022★ 4 cited

The quantum low-rank approximation problem

Nic Ezzell, Zoë Holmes, Patrick J. Coles

We consider a quantum version of the famous low-rank approximation problem. Specifically, we consider the distance between two normalized quantum states, and , wher…

quant-ph2021★ 14 cited

Quantum simulation of operator spreading in the chaotic Ising model

Michael R. Geller, Andrew Arrasmith, Zoë Holmes +3

There is great interest in using near-term quantum computers to simulate and study foundational problems in quantum mechanics and quantum information science, such as the scramblin…

quant-ph2021★ 12 cited

Experimental Quantum Learning of a Spectral Decomposition

Michael R. Geller, Zoë Holmes, Patrick J. Coles +1

Currently available quantum hardware allows for small scale implementations of quantum machine learning algorithms. Such experiments aid the search for applications of quantum comp…

quant-ph2021★ 150 cited

Equivalence of quantum barren plateaus to cost concentration and narrow gorges

Andrew Arrasmith, Zoë Holmes, M. Cerezo +1

Optimizing parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) is the leading approach to make use of near-term quantum computers. However, very little is known about the cost function landscape…

quant-ph2021★ 36 cited

Long-time simulations with high fidelity on quantum hardware

Joe Gibbs, Kaitlin Gili, Zoë Holmes +5

Moderate-size quantum computers are now publicly accessible over the cloud, opening the exciting possibility of performing dynamical simulations of quantum systems. However, while…

quant-ph2021★ 627 cited

Connecting ansatz expressibility to gradient magnitudes and barren plateaus

Zoë Holmes, Kunal Sharma, M. Cerezo +1

Parameterized quantum circuits serve as ansätze for solving variational problems and provide a flexible paradigm for programming near-term quantum computers. Ideally, such ansätze…

quant-ph2020★ 53 cited

Variational Hamiltonian Diagonalization for Dynamical Quantum Simulation

Benjamin Commeau, M. Cerezo, Zoë Holmes +3

Dynamical quantum simulation may be one of the first applications to see quantum advantage. However, the circuit depth of standard Trotterization methods can rapidly exceed the coh…

quant-ph2020★ 68 cited

Reformulation of the No-Free-Lunch Theorem for Entangled Data Sets

Kunal Sharma, M. Cerezo, Zoë Holmes +3

The no-free-lunch (NFL) theorem is a celebrated result in learning theory that limits one's ability to learn a function with a training data set. With the recent rise of quantum ma…

quant-ph2019★ 238 cited

Variational Fast Forwarding for Quantum Simulation Beyond the Coherence Time

Cristina Cirstoiu, Zoe Holmes, Joseph Iosue +3

Trotterization-based, iterative approaches to quantum simulation are restricted to simulation times less than the coherence time of the quantum computer, which limits their utility…