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most citedPerformance comparison of optimization methods on variational quantum algorithms

109 citations · 328 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

quant-ph2026

Experimental demonstration of the absence of noise-induced barren plateaus using information content landscape analysis

Sebastian Schmitt, Linus Ekstrøm, Alberto Bottarelli +1

Variational quantum algorithms are promising candidates for near-term quantum computing but can be hindered by barren plateaus, where gradients vanish exponentially and optimizatio…

quant-ph2026

Improving Quantum Multi-Objective Optimization with Archiving and Substitution

Linus Ekstrøm, Takafumi Hosogi, Xavier Bonet-Monroig +3

Finding optimal solutions of conflicting objectives is a daily matter in many industrial applications, with multi-objective optimization trying to find the best solutions to them.…

quant-ph2024

The role of data-induced randomness in quantum machine learning classification tasks

Berta Casas, Xavier Bonet-Monroig, Adrián Pérez-Salinas

Quantum machine learning (QML) has surged as a prominent area of research with the objective to go beyond the capabilities of classical machine learning models. A critical aspect o…

cs.NE2024

An Adaptive Re-evaluation Method for Evolution Strategy under Additive Noise

Catalin-Viorel Dinu, Yash J. Patel, Xavier Bonet-Monroig +1

The Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Strategy (CMA-ES) is one of the most advanced algorithms in numerical black-box optimization. For noisy objective functions, several a…

quant-ph2024

Hierarchically discriminating Haar-randomness in quantum states from a black-box device

Xavier Bonet-Monroig, Hao Wang, Adrián Pérez-Salinas

The concept of randomness in quantum computing has been central to constructing benchmarking tools, cryptographic protocols, as well as a proof of beyond-classical computation. Dis…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Curriculum reinforcement learning for quantum architecture search under hardware errors

Yash J. Patel, Akash Kundu, Mateusz Ostaszewski +3

The key challenge in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era is finding useful circuits compatible with current device limitations. Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) offer a p…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Simulating quantum error mitigation in fermionic encodings

Riley W. Chien, Kanav Setia, Xavier Bonet-Monroig +2

The most scalable proposed methods of simulating lattice fermions on noisy quantum computers employ encodings that eliminate nonlocal operators using a constant factor more qubits…

quant-ph2023★ 13 cited

Analyzing variational quantum landscapes with information content

Adrián Pérez-Salinas, Hao Wang, Xavier Bonet-Monroig

The parameters of the quantum circuit in a variational quantum algorithm induce a landscape that contains the relevant information regarding its optimization hardness. In this work…

quant-ph2021★ 109 cited

Performance comparison of optimization methods on variational quantum algorithms

Xavier Bonet-Monroig, Hao Wang, Diederick Vermetten +5

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) offer a promising path toward using near-term quantum hardware for applications in academic and industrial research. These algorithms aim to f…

quant-ph2019★ 94 cited

Nearly Optimal Measurement Scheduling for Partial Tomography of Quantum States

Xavier Bonet-Monroig, Ryan Babbush, Thomas E. O'Brien

Many applications of quantum simulation require to prepare and then characterize quantum states by performing an efficient partial tomography to estimate observables corresponding…

quant-ph2019★ 99 cited

Calculating energy derivatives for quantum chemistry on a quantum computer

T. E. O'Brien, B. Senjean, R. Sagastizabal +5

Modeling chemical reactions and complicated molecular systems has been proposed as the `killer application' of a future quantum computer. Accurate calculations of derivatives of mo…