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In real-world applications of reinforcement learning (RL), noise from inherent stochasticity of environments is inevitable. However, current policy evaluation algorithms, which plays a key role in many RL algorithms, are either prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Tadashi Kozuno , Dongqi Han , Kenji Doya

We study the impact of static disorder on a globally-controlled superconducting quantum computing architecture based on a quasi-two-dimensional ladder geometry [R. Menta et al., Phys. Rev. Research 7, L012065 (2025)]. Specifically, we…

Quantum control aims to manipulate quantum systems toward specific quantum states or desired operations. Designing highly accurate and effective control steps is vitally important to various quantum applications, including energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

This paper considers the fundamental power allocation problem in cell-free massive mutiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems which aims at maximizing the total energy efficiency (EE) under a sum power constraint at each access point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Trang C. Mai , Hien Quoc Ngo , Le-Nam Tran

This article is aimed at extending the framework of optimal control techniques to the situation where the control field values are restricted to a finite set. We propose a generalization of the standard GRAPE algorithm suited to this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-28 G. Dridi , M. Lapert , Julien Salomon , D Sugny , S. J. Glaser

Differential privacy (DP) protects sensitive data during neural network training, but standard methods like DP-Adam suffer from high memory overhead due to per-sample gradient clipping, limiting scalability. We introduce DP-GRAPE (Gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alex Mulrooney , Devansh Gupta , James Flemings , Huanyu Zhang , Murali Annavaram , Meisam Razaviyayn , Xinwei Zhang

We consider subspace transfer within the time-dependent one-dimensional quantum transverse Ising model, with random nearest-neighbor interactions and a transverse field. We run numerical simulations using a variational approach and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 C. Whitty , E. Ya. Sherman , Xi Chen , Yue Ban

Automatic differentiation (AD) is a set of techniques that systematically applies the chain rule to compute the gradients of functions without requiring human intervention. Although the fundamentals of this technology were established…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Afif Boudaoud , Alexandru Calotoiu , Marcin Copik , Torsten Hoefler

We implement a quantum optimal control algorithm based on automatic differentiation and harness the acceleration afforded by graphics processing units (GPUs). Automatic differentiation allows us to specify advanced optimization criteria and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Nelson Leung , Mohamed Abdelhafez , Jens Koch , David I. Schuster

Large-scale distributed graph-parallel computing is challenging. On one hand, due to the irregular computation pattern and lack of locality, it is hard to express parallelism efficiently. On the other hand, due to the scale-free nature,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Jie Yan , Guangming Tan , Ninghui Sun

The successes of deep learning, variational inference, and many other fields have been aided by specialized implementations of reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) to compute gradients of mega-dimensional objectives. The AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Deniz Oktay , Nick McGreivy , Joshua Aduol , Alex Beatson , Ryan P. Adams

In this work, we consider the problem of ultrafast controlled generation of single-qubit phase shift quantum gates. Globally optimal control is a control which realizes the gate with maximal possible fidelity. Trap is a control which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Boris O. Volkov , Oleg V. Morzhin , Alexander N. Pechen

We present a gradient-based optimal-control technique for open quantum systems that utilizes quantum trajectories to simulate the quantum dynamics during optimization. Using trajectories allows for optimizing open systems with less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Mohamed Abdelhafez , David I. Schuster , Jens Koch

Distributed quantum computation is the key to high volume computation in the NISQ era. This investigation explores the key aspects necessary for the construction of a quantum network by numerically simulating the execution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Juan Carlos Boschero

Work within this thesis advances optimal control algorithms for application to magnetic resonance systems. Specifically, presenting a quadratically convergent version of the gradient ascent pulse engineering method. The work is formulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 David L. Goodwin

Robust and high-precision quantum control is extremely important but challenging for the functionization of scalable quantum computation. In this paper, we show that this hard problem can be translated to a supervised machine learning task…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Re-Bing Wu , Haijin Ding , Daoyi Dong , Xiaoting Wang

Adaptive gradient methods, such as Adam and LAMB, have demonstrated excellent performance in the training of large language models. Nevertheless, the need for adaptivity requires maintaining second-moment estimates of the per-parameter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yang Luo , Xiaozhe Ren , Zangwei Zheng , Zhuo Jiang , Xin Jiang , Yang You

Numerical optimal control (GRAPE) can in principle discover pulse shapes that suppress all coherent gate error to machine precision. But when does that capability actually matter? We present a systematic comparison of Gaussian, DRAG, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Rylan Malarchick

High-fidelity control of quantum systems is essential for scalable quantum technologies. We introduce a shooting-based method which yields smooth control pulses designed to implement gates on discrete quantum systems, and demonstrate its…

Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) require huge GPU memory when training on modern image/video databases. Unfortunately, the GPU memory is physically finite, which limits the image resolutions and batch sizes that could be used in training for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Jianwei Feng , Dong Huang