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most citedAvoiding Barren Plateaus with Classical Deep Neural Networks

47 citations · 94 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

A variational quantum algorithm for entanglement quantification

Lucas Friedrich, Marcos L. W. Basso, Alberto B. P. Junior +4

Quantum entanglement is a foundational resource in quantum information science, underpinning applications across physics. However, detecting and quantifying entanglement remains a…

quant-ph2025

A short review on qudit quantum machine learning

Tiago de Souza Farias, Lucas Friedrich, Jonas Maziero

As quantum devices scale toward practical machine learning applications, the binary qubit paradigm faces expressivity and resource efficiency limitations. Multi-level quantum syste…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

QuForge: A Library for Qudits Simulation

Tiago de Souza Farias, Lucas Friedrich, Jonas Maziero

Quantum computing with qudits, an extension of qubits to multiple levels, is a research field less mature than qubit-based quantum computing. However, qudits can offer some advanta…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Barren plateaus are amplified by the dimension of qudits

Lucas Friedrich, Tiago de Souza Farias, Jonas Maziero

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have emerged as pivotal strategies for attaining quantum advantage in diverse scientific and technological domains, notably within Quantum Neu…

quant-ph2024

Quantum neural network with ensemble learning to mitigate barren plateaus and cost function concentration

Lucas Friedrich, Jonas Maziero

The rapid development of quantum computers promises transformative impacts across diverse fields of science and technology. Quantum neural networks (QNNs), as a forefront applicati…

quant-ph2024

Preparing general mixed quantum states on quantum computers

Lucas Friedrich, Douglas F. Pinto, Diego S. Starke +1

The preparation of quantum states is a fundamental subroutine for a broad class of quantum information protocols and is critical for both quantum communication and quantum computat…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Learning to learn with an evolutionary strategy applied to variational quantum algorithms

Lucas Friedrich, Jonas Maziero

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) employ parameterized quantum circuits optimized using classical methods to minimize a cost function. While VQAs have found broad applications,…

quant-ph2023★ 17 cited

The quantum cost function concentration dependency on the parametrization expressivity

Lucas Friedrich, Jonas Maziero

Although we are currently in the era of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices, several studies are being conducted with the aim of bringing machine learning to the quantum domai…

quant-ph2022★ 4 cited

Restricting to the chip architecture maintains the quantum neural network accuracy

Lucas Friedrich, Jonas Maziero

In the era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) stand as a prominent strategy for constructing quantum machine learning models. These…

quant-ph2022★ 47 cited

Avoiding Barren Plateaus with Classical Deep Neural Networks

Lucas Friedrich, Jonas Maziero

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are among the most promising algorithms in the era of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum Devices. Such algorithms are constructed using a parame…

quant-ph2022★ 14 cited

Evolution strategies: Application in hybrid quantum-classical neural networks

Lucas Friedrich, Jonas Maziero

With the rapid development of quantum computers, several applications are being proposed for them. Quantum simulations, simulation of chemical reactions, solution of optimization p…

math.NA2019

Entropy Stable p-Nonconforming Discretizations with the Summation-by-Parts Property for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

David C. Del Rey Fernandez, Mark H. Carpenter, Lisandro Dalcin +4

The entropy conservative, curvilinear, nonconforming, p-refinement algorithm for hyperbolic conservation laws of Del Rey Fernandez et al. (2019), is extended from the compressible…

math.NA2018★ 2 cited

Entropy Stable Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes with Summation-by-Parts Property for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

Lucas Friedrich, Gero Schnücke, Andrew R. Winters +3

This work examines the development of an entropy conservative (for smooth solutions) or entropy stable (for discontinuous solutions) space-time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method f…

math.NA2017

An Entropy Stable h/p Non-Conforming Discontinuous Galerkin Method with the Summation-by-Parts Property

Lucas Friedrich, Andrew R. Winters, David C. Del Rey Fernández +3

This work presents an entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) spectral element approximation for systems of non-linear conservation laws with general geometric (h) and polynomia…

math.NA2016

Conservative and Stable Degree Preserving SBP Operators for Non-Conforming Meshes

Lucas Friedrich, David C. Del Rey Fernandez, Andrew R. Winters +3

Non-conforming numerical approximations offer increased flexibility for applications that require high resolution in a localized area of the computational domain or near complex ge…