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Quantum subspace diagonalization methods are an exciting new class of algorithms for solving large\rev{-}scale eigenvalue problems using quantum computers. Unfortunately, these methods require the solution of an ill-conditioned generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Ethan N. Epperly , Lin Lin , Yuji Nakatsukasa

Quantum computers promise to efficiently solve important problems that are intractable on a conventional computer. For quantum systems, where the dimension of the problem space grows exponentially, finding the eigenvalues of certain…

Using the notion of conservative gradient, we provide a simple model to estimate the computational costs of the backward and forward modes of algorithmic differentiation for a wide class of nonsmooth programs. The overhead complexity of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Jérôme Bolte , Ryan Boustany , Edouard Pauwels , Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu

Automatic Differentiation (AD) is a powerful tool that allows calculating derivatives of implemented algorithms with respect to all of their parameters up to machine precision, without the need to explicitly add any additional functions.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Teresa Tamayo-Mendoza , Christoph Kreisbeck , Roland Lindh , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Differentiable programming, enabled by automatic differentiation (AD), provides a robust framework for gradient-based optimization in computational plasma physics. While optimization is often only used towards design, we demonstrate that it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 A. S. Joglekar , A. G. R. Thomas , A. L. Milder , K. G. Miller , J. P. Palastro , D. H. Froula

In this article, we propose two kinds of neural networks inspired by power method and inverse power method to solve linear eigenvalue problems. These neural networks share similar ideas with traditional methods, in which the differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Qihong Yang , Yangtao Deng , Yu Yang , Qiaolin He , Shiquan Zhang

Eigendecomposition of symmetric matrices is at the heart of many computer vision algorithms. However, the derivatives of the eigenvectors tend to be numerically unstable, whether using the SVD to compute them analytically or using the Power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Wei Wang , Zheng Dang , Yinlin Hu , Pascal Fua , Mathieu Salzmann

The maturation of analytical derivative theory over the past few decades has enabled classical electronic structure theory to provide accurate and efficient predictions of a wide variety of observable properties. However, classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Robert M. Parrish , Edward G. Hohenstein , Peter L. McMahon , Todd J. Martinez

Derivatives, mostly in the form of gradients and Hessians, are ubiquitous in machine learning. Automatic differentiation (AD), also called algorithmic differentiation or simply "autodiff", is a family of techniques similar to but more…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Atilim Gunes Baydin , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Alexey Andreyevich Radul , Jeffrey Mark Siskind

Backpropagation is a classic automatic differentiation algorithm computing the gradient of functions specified by a certain class of simple, first-order programs, called computational graphs. It is a fundamental tool in several fields, most…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Alois Brunel , Damiano Mazza , Michele Pagani

Variational algorithms for strongly correlated chemical and materials systems are one of the most promising applications of near-term quantum computers. We present an extension to the variational quantum eigensolver that approximates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 William J. Huggins , Joonho Lee , Unpil Baek , Bryan O'Gorman , K. Birgitta Whaley

Variational quantum eigensolvers have recently received increased attention, as they enable the use of quantum computing devices to find solutions to complex problems, such as the ground energy and ground state of strongly-correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Jiahao Yao , Paul Köttering , Hans Gundlach , Lin Lin , Marin Bukov

By analyzing a paradigmatic example of the theory of dissipative systems -- the classical and quantum dissipative standard map -- we are able to explain the main features of the decay to the quantum equilibrium state. The classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Gabriel G. Carlo , Leonardo Ermann , Alejandro M. F. Rivas , María E. Spina

A common challenge faced in quantum physics is finding the extremal eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a Hamiltonian matrix in a vector space so large that linear algebra operations on general vectors are not possible. There are numerous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Dillon Frame , Rongzheng He , Ilse Ipsen , Daniel Lee , Dean Lee , Ermal Rrapaj

Several quantities important in condensed matter physics, quantum information, and quantum chemistry, as well as quantities required in meta-optimization of machine learning algorithms, can be expressed as gradients of implicitly defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Shahnawaz Ahmed , Nathan Killoran , Juan Felipe Carrasquilla Álvarez

Quasi-degenerate eigenvalue problems are central to quantum chemistry and condensed-matter physics, where low-energy spectra often form manifolds of nearly degenerate states that determine physical properties. Standard quantum algorithms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Chun-Tse Li , Tzen Ong , Chih-Yun Lin , Yu-Cheng Chen , Hsin Lin , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Solving linear systems and computing eigenvalues are two fundamental problems in linear algebra. For solving linear systems, many efficient quantum algorithms have been discovered. For computing eigenvalues, currently, we have efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Changpeng Shao

Determining physical properties inside an object without access to direct measurements of target regions can be formulated as a specific type of \textit{inverse problem}. One of such problems is applied in \textit{Electrical Impedance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Ivan Pombo , Luis Sarmento

Bilevel optimization offers a methodology to learn hyperparameters in imaging inverse problems, yet its integration with automatic differentiation techniques remains challenging. On the one hand, inverse problems are typically solved by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Leo Davy , Luis M. Briceno-Arias , N. Pustelnik

Approximating ground and a fixed number of excited state energies, or equivalently low order Hamiltonian eigenvalues, is an important but computationally hard problem. Typically, the cost of classical deterministic algorithms grows…

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