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Learning shallow quantum circuits with many-qubit gates

Quantum Physics 2025-06-11 v2

Abstract

We present the first computationally-efficient algorithm for average-case learning of shallow quantum circuits with many-qubit gates. Specifically, we provide a quasi-polynomial time and sample complexity algorithm for learning unknown QAC0^0 circuits -- constant-depth circuits with arbitrary single-qubit gates and polynomially many CZCZ gates of unbounded width -- with at most logarithmic ancilla, up to inverse-polynomially small error. Furthermore, we show that the learned unitary can be efficiently synthesized in poly-logarithmic depth. This work expands the family of efficiently learnable quantum circuits, notably since in finite-dimensional circuit geometries, QAC0^0 circuits require polynomial depth to implement.

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@article{arxiv.2410.16693,
  title  = {Learning shallow quantum circuits with many-qubit gates},
  author = {Francisca Vasconcelos and Hsin-Yuan Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.16693},
  year   = {2025}
}
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