4 papers
Prior-Informed Adaptive Shifts for Sequential Minimal Optimization in Variational Quantum Eigensolvers
Frederik Stalschus, Samuele Pedrielli, Stefan Kühn +3
Sequential minimal optimization methods, such as the Rotosolve and the Nakanishi-Fujii-Todo algorithm (NFT), are widely used for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQEs). These meth…
Bias Analysis and Regularization of Sequential Minimal Optimization in Variational Quantum Eigensolvers
Samuele Pedrielli, Frederik Stalschus, Stefan Kühn +3
The Nakanishi Fujii Todo (NFT) algorithm, also known as Rotosolve, implements Sequential Minimal Optimization for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (SMO-VQE) by exploiting the trigo…
Bayesian Parameter Shift Rule in Variational Quantum Eigensolvers
Samuele Pedrielli, Christopher J. Anders, Lena Funcke +3
Parameter shift rules (PSRs) are key techniques for efficient gradient estimation in variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs). In this paper, we propose its Bayesian variant, where…
Adaptive Observation Cost Control for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers
Christopher J. Anders, Kim A. Nicoli, Bingting Wu +6
The objective to be minimized in the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) has a restricted form, which allows a specialized sequential minimal optimization (SMO) that requires onl…