Journal
QUANTUM
Volume 3, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
VEREIN FORDERUNG OPEN ACCESS PUBLIZIERENS QUANTENWISSENSCHAF
DOI: 10.22331/q-2019-12-09-214
Keywords
Quantum Neural Networks; Variational Quantum Eigensolvers; Quantum Machine Learning
Funding
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/P510270/1]
- Royal Society
- Polish National Science Center [2018/28/T/ST6/00429]
- EPSRC
- Cambridge Quantum Computing Limited (CQC)
- NVIDIA Corporation
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Parametrized quantum circuits initialized with random initial parameter values are characterized by barren plateaus where the gradient becomes exponentially small in the number of qubits. In this technical note we theoretically motivate and empirically validate an initialization strategy which can resolve the barren plateau problem for practical applications. The technique involves randomly selecting some of the initial parameter values, then choosing the remaining values so that the circuit is a sequence of shallow blocks that each evaluates to the identity. This initialization limits the effective depth of the circuits used to calculate the first parameter update so that they cannot be stuck in a barren plateau at the start of training. In turn, this makes some of the most compact ansatze usable in practice, which was not possible before even for rather basic problems. We show empirically that variational quantum eigensolvers and quantum neural networks initialized using this strategy can be trained using a gradient based method.
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