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most citedDiagnosing Barren Plateaus with Tools from Quantum Optimal Control

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quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Symmetric derivatives of parametrized quantum circuits

David Wierichs, Richard D. P. East, Martín Larocca +2

Symmetries are crucial for tailoring parametrized quantum circuits to applications, due to their capability to capture the essence of physical systems. In this work, we shift the f…

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★ 5 cited

Showcasing a Barren Plateau Theory Beyond the Dynamical Lie Algebra

N. L. Diaz, Diego García-Martín, Sujay Kazi +2

Barren plateaus have emerged as a pivotal challenge for variational quantum computing. Our understanding of this phenomenon underwent a transformative shift with the recent introdu…

quant-ph2023★ 149 cited

A Lie Algebraic Theory of Barren Plateaus for Deep Parameterized Quantum Circuits

Michael Ragone, Bojko N. Bakalov, Frédéric Sauvage +4

Variational quantum computing schemes train a loss function by sending an initial state through a parametrized quantum circuit, and measuring the expectation value of some operator…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Parallel-in-time quantum simulation via Page and Wootters quantum time

N. L. Diaz, Paolo Braccia, Martin Larocca +3

In the past few decades, researchers have created a veritable zoo of quantum algorithms by drawing inspiration from classical computing, information theory, and even from physical…

quant-ph2023★ 20 cited

Lie-algebraic classical simulations for quantum computing

Matthew L. Goh, Martin Larocca, Lukasz Cincio +2

The classical simulation of quantum dynamics plays an important role in our understanding of quantum complexity, and in the development of quantum technologies. Efficient technique…

quant-ph2023★ 18 cited

Quantum neural networks form Gaussian processes

Diego García-Martín, Martin Larocca, M. Cerezo

It is well known that artificial neural networks initialized from independent and identically distributed priors converge to Gaussian processes in the limit of a large number of ne…

quant-ph2023★ 15 cited

On the universality of -equivariant -body gates

Sujay Kazi, Martin Larocca, M. Cerezo

The importance of symmetries has recently been recognized in quantum machine learning from the simple motto: if a task exhibits a symmetry (given by a group ), the le…

quant-ph2023★ 24 cited

Effects of noise on the overparametrization of quantum neural networks

Diego García-Martín, Martin Larocca, M. Cerezo

Overparametrization is one of the most surprising and notorious phenomena in machine learning. Recently, there have been several efforts to study if, and how, Quantum Neural Networ…