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Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm is one of few approaches where the hope for near-term quantum advantage concentrates. However, they face challenges connected with measurement stochastic noise, barren plateaus, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Ijaz Ahamed Mohammad , Yury Chernyak , Martin Plesch

Variational quantum algorithms have been one of the most intensively studied applications for near-term quantum computing applications. The noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) regime, where small enough algorithms can be run…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 Sebastian Brandhofer , Simon Devitt , Ilia Polian

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), a type of variational quantum algorithm, is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to find the lowest-energy eigenstate of a particular Hamiltonian. We investigate ways to optimize the VQE solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Adam Hutchings , Eric Yarnot , Xinpeng Li , Qiang Guan , Ning Xie , Shuai Xu , Vipin Chaudhary

We propose an optimization method for the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) that combines adaptive and physics-inspired ansatz design. Instead of optimizing multiple layers simultaneously, the ansatz is built incrementally from its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Cedric Gaberle , Manpreet Singh Jattana

This paper aims at improving the classification accuracy of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier with Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO) training algorithm in order to properly classify failure and normal instances from oil and gas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhiyuan Chen , Isa Dino , Nik Ahmad Akram

In this work, we demonstrate a practical application of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) algorithms to enhance subroutines in the Black-Litterman (BL) portfolio optimization model. As a proof of concept, we implement a 12-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Chi-Chun Chen , San-Lin Chung , Hsi-Sheng Goan

Learning complex multi-agent system dynamics from data is crucial across many domains, such as in physical simulations and material modeling. Extended from purely data-driven approaches, existing physics-informed approaches such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Zijie Huang , Wanjia Zhao , Jingdong Gao , Ziniu Hu , Xiao Luo , Yadi Cao , Yuanzhou Chen , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

We experimentally demonstrate a qubit-efficient variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm using a superconducting quantum processor, employing minimal quantum resources with only a transmon qubit coupled to a high-coherence photonic…

We propose a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm that uses a fault-tolerant gate-set, and is hence suitable for implementation on a future error-corrected quantum computer. VQE quantum circuits are typically designed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Hasan Sayginel , Francois Jamet , Abhishek Agarwal , Dan E. Browne , Ivan Rungger

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a promising algorithm for demonstrating quantum advantage in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. However, optimizing VQE from random initial starting parameters is challenging due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Abid Khan , Bryan K. Clark , Norm M. Tubman

We present a shadow-tomography-enhanced Non-Orthogonal Quantum Eigensolver (NOQE) for more efficient and accurate electronic structure calculations on near-term quantum devices. By integrating shadow tomography into the NOQE, the…

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), aiming at determining the ground state energy of a quantum system described by a Hamiltonian on noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices, is among the most significant applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Ze-Tong Li , Fan-Xu Meng , Han Zeng , Zai-Chen Zhang , Xu-Tao Yu

Autoencoders and their variations provide unsupervised models for learning low-dimensional representations for downstream tasks. Without proper regularization, autoencoder models are susceptible to the overfitting problem and the so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Hanwei Wu , Markus Flierl

We derive a Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO) algorithm for the quadratic dual problem arising from $\varepsilon$-SVR~\cite{Vapnik1995, Drucker1997, Smola2004} modified to minimize the Mean Absolute Percentage Error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Pablo Benavides-Herrera , Riemann Ruiz-Cruz , Juan Diego Sánchez-Torres

Quantum optimization algorithms offer a promising route to finding the ground states of target Hamiltonians on near-term quantum devices. None the less, it remains necessary to limit the evolution time and circuit depth as much as possible,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Chenfeng Cao , Yunlong Yu , Zipeng Wu , Nic Shannon , Bei Zeng , Robert Joynt

We present a collection of optimizers tuned for usage on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. Optimizers have a range of applications in quantum computing, including the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) and Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Wim Lavrijsen , Ana Tudor , Juliane Müller , Costin Iancu , Wibe de Jong

The Adaptive Variational Quantum Eigensolver (ADAPT-VQE) is a promising approach for quantum algorithms in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era, offering advantages over traditional VQE methods by reducing circuit depth and…

A regularization algorithm using inexact function values and inexact derivatives is proposed and its evaluation complexity analyzed. This algorithm is applicable to unconstrained problems and to problems with inexpensive constraints (that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-22 S. Bellavia , G. Gurioli , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

We introduce a general framework for analyzing learning algorithms based on the notion of self-regularization, which captures implicit complexity control without requiring explicit regularization. This is motivated by previous observations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Max Schölpple , Liu Fanghui , Ingo Steinwart

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is generally regarded as a promising quantum algorithm for near-term noisy quantum computers. However, when implemented with the deep circuits that are in principle required for achieving a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Simone Cantori , Andrea Mari , David Vitali , Sebastiano Pilati