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Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are a leading approach to exploiting near-term quantum hardware, leveraging parameterized quantum circuits and classical optimization to achieve advantage. Despite their promise, the practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Tung Dao , Son Tran , Huynh Thi Thanh Binh

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become an important approach to automatically find effective architectures. To cover all possible good architectures, we need to search in an extremely large search space with billions of candidate…

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We introduce CL-QAS, a continual quantum architecture search framework that mitigates the challenges of costly amplitude encoding and catastrophic forgetting in variational quantum circuits. The method uses Tensor-Train encoding to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Jun Qi , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Javier Tejedor , Ling Li , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

The search for quantum algorithms to tackle classical combinatorial optimization problems has long been one of the most attractive yet challenging research topics in quantum computing. In this context, variational quantum algorithms (VQA)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Andoni Agirre , Evert Van Nieuwenburg , Matteo M. Wauters

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) has received intensive scientific and industrial interest due to its capability of finding a neural architecture with high accuracy for various artificial intelligence tasks such as image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Martin Ferianc , Hongxiang Fan , Miguel Rodrigues

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate architecture design processes and improve the performance of deep neural networks. Platform-aware NAS methods consider both performance and complexity and can find well-performing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yuhei Noda , Shota Saito , Shinichi Shirakawa

The design of quantum circuits is currently driven by the specific objectives of the quantum algorithm in question. This approach thus relies on a significant manual effort by the quantum algorithm designer to design an appropriate circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Ankit Kulshrestha , Xiaoyuan Liu , Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa , Ilya Safro

In the recent past, the success of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has enabled researchers to broadly explore the design space using learning-based methods. Apart from finding better neural network architectures, the idea of automation has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Qing Lu , Weiwen Jiang , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to produce the optimal sparse solution from a high-dimensional space spanned by all candidate connections. Current gradient-based NAS methods commonly ignore the constraint of sparsity in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yibo Yang , Hongyang Li , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Zhouchen Lin

Quantum Architecture Search (QAS) is a promising approach to designing quantum circuits for variational quantum algorithms (VQAs). However, existing QAS algorithms require to evaluate a large number of quantum circuits during the search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Zhimin He , Maijie Deng , Shenggen Zheng , Lvzhou Li , Haozhen Situ

Deploying quantum machine learning algorithms on near-term quantum hardware requires circuits that respect device-specific gate sets, connectivity constraints, and noise characteristics. We present a hardware-aware Neural Architecture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Adil Mubashir Chaudhry , Ali Raza Haider , Hanzla Khan , Muhammad Faryad

There is a constant need for high-performing and computationally efficient neural network models for image super-resolution: computationally efficient models can be used via low-capacity devices and reduce carbon footprints. One way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Egor Shvetsov , Dmitry Osin , Alexey Zaytsev , Ivan Koryakovskiy , Valentin Buchnev , Ilya Trofimov , Evgeny Burnaev

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a standard method for combinatorial optimization with a gate-based quantum computer. The QAOA consists of a particular ansatz for the quantum circuit architecture, together with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Li Li , Minjie Fan , Marc Coram , Patrick Riley , Stefan Leichenauer

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown promise towards automating neural network design for a given task, but it is computationally demanding due to training costs associated with evaluating a large number of architectures to find the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Shahid Siddiqui , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to facilitate the design of deep networks for new tasks. Existing techniques rely on two stages: searching over the architecture space and validating the best architecture. NAS algorithms are currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Kaicheng Yu , Christian Sciuto , Martin Jaggi , Claudiu Musat , Mathieu Salzmann

Recent one-shot Neural Architecture Search algorithms rely on training a hardware-agnostic super-network tailored to a specific task and then extracting efficient sub-networks for different hardware platforms. Popular approaches separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Maciej Szankin , Fang Chen , Sairam Sundaresan , Anthony Sarah

Differentiable quantum architecture search (DQAS) is a gradient-based framework to design quantum circuits automatically in the NISQ era. It was motivated by such as low fidelity of quantum hardware, low flexibility of circuit architecture,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 Yize Sun , Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp

Despite remarkable progress achieved, most neural architecture search (NAS) methods focus on searching for one single accurate and robust architecture. To further build models with better generalization capability and performance, model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Minghao Chen , Houwen Peng , Jianlong Fu , Haibin Ling

This article explores search strategies for the design of parameterized quantum circuits. We propose several optimization approaches including random search plus survival of the fittest, reinforcement learning both with classical and hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Mohammad Pirhooshyaran , Tamas Terlaky

In the field of quantum computing, variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) represent a pivotal category of quantum solutions across a broad spectrum of applications. These algorithms demonstrate significant potential for realising quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Abhishek Sadhu , Aritra Sarkar , Akash Kundu