2 papers
quant-ph2025
Clifford Accelerated Adaptive QAOA
Théo Lisart-Liebermann, Arcesio Castañeda Medina
Clifford Circuit Initializaton improves on initial guess of parameters on Parametric Quantum Circuits (PQCs) by leveraging efficient simulation of circuits made out of gates from t…
cs.CE2025
Preconditioning Natural and Second Order Gradient Descent in Quantum Optimization: A Performance Benchmark
Théo Lisart-Liebermann, Arcesio Castañeda Medina
The optimization of parametric quantum circuits is technically hindered by three major obstacles: the non-convex nature of the objective function, noisy gradient evaluations, and t…