2 papers
quant-ph2020
Absence of Barren Plateaus in Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks
Arthur Pesah, M. Cerezo, Samson Wang +3
Quantum neural networks (QNNs) have generated excitement around the possibility of efficiently analyzing quantum data. But this excitement has been tempered by the existence of exp…
quant-ph2020
Cost Function Dependent Barren Plateaus in Shallow Parametrized Quantum Circuits
M. Cerezo, Akira Sone, Tyler Volkoff +2
Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) optimize the parameters of a parametrized quantum circuit to minimize a cost function . While VQAs may enable practical…