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most citedParameter Concentration in Quantum Approximate Optimization

114 citations · 267 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Quantum State Certification via Effective Parent Hamiltonians from Local Measurement Data

Guy-Philippe Nadon, Guanyi Heng, Pacôme Gasnier +8

The preparation and certification of quantum states is a fundamental challenge across quantum information technology. We introduce a tomography-free state certification method that…

cs.CL2026

Quantum-Inspired Self-Attention in a Large Language Model

Nikita Kuznetsov, Niyaz Ismagilov, Ernesto Campos

Recent advances in Natural Language Processing have been predominantly driven by transformer-based architectures, which rely heavily on self-attention mechanisms to model relations…

quant-ph2025

Problem specific ion native ansatz for combinatorial optimization

Georgii Paradezhenko, Daniil Rabinovich, Ernesto Campos +1

Variational quantum algorithms have become a standard approach for solving a wide range of problems on near-term quantum computers. Identifying an appropriate ansatz configuration…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Depth scaling of unstructured search via quantum approximate optimization

Ernesto Campos, Daniil Rabinovich, Alexey Uvarov

Variational quantum algorithms have become the de facto model for current quantum computations. A prominent example of such algorithms -- the quantum approximate optimization algor…

quant-ph2023★ 11 cited

Robustness of Variational Quantum Algorithms against stochastic parameter perturbation

Daniil Rabinovich, Ernesto Campos, Soumik Adhikary +3

Variational quantum algorithms are tailored to perform within the constraints of current quantum devices, yet they are limited by performance-degrading errors. In this study, we co…

quant-ph2022★ 8 cited

Ion native variational ansatz for quantum approximate optimization

Daniil Rabinovich, Soumik Adhikary, Ernesto Campos +6

Variational quantum algorithms involve training parameterized quantum circuits using a classical co-processor. An important variational algorithm, designed for combinatorial optimi…

quant-ph2022★ 24 cited

On Circuit Depth Scaling For Quantum Approximate Optimization

V. Akshay, H. Philathong, E. Campos +4

Variational quantum algorithms are the centerpiece of modern quantum programming. These algorithms involve training parameterized quantum circuits using a classical co-processor, a…

quant-ph2021★ 10 cited

Progress towards analytically optimal angles in quantum approximate optimisation

D. Rabinovich, R. Sengupta, E. Campos +2

The Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm is a layer, time-variable split operator method executed on a quantum processor and driven to convergence by classical outer loop…

quant-ph2021★ 49 cited

Training Saturation in Layerwise Quantum Approximate Optimisation

E. Campos, D. Rabinovich, V. Akshay +1

Quantum Approximate Optimisation (QAOA) is the most studied gate based variational quantum algorithm today. We train QAOA one layer at a time to maximize overlap with an qubit…

quant-ph2021★ 114 cited

Parameter Concentration in Quantum Approximate Optimization

V. Akshay, D. Rabinovich, E. Campos +1

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) has become a cornerstone of contemporary quantum applications development. In QAOA, a quantum circuit is trained -- by repeate…

quant-ph2020★ 48 cited

Abrupt Transitions in Variational Quantum Circuit Training

Ernesto Campos, Aly Nasrallah, Jacob Biamonte

Variational quantum algorithms dominate gate-based applications of modern quantum processors. The so called, {\it layer-wise trainability conjecture} appears in various works throu…