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Quantum architecture search (QAS) is the process of automating architecture engineering of quantum circuits. It has been desired to construct a powerful and general QAS platform which can significantly accelerate current efforts to identify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Hong Yao

Quantum computing leverages quantum mechanics to address computational problems in ways that differ fundamentally from classical approaches. While current quantum hardware remains error-prone and limited in scale, Variational Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Michael Kölle , Simon Salfer , Tobias Rohe , Philipp Altmann , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are hybrid quantum-classical approaches used for tackling a wide range of problems on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Testing these algorithms on relevant hardware is crucial to…

This work explores the zero-shot capabilities of foundation models in Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks. We propose an adaptive multi-agent system, named Multi-Agent VQA, to overcome the limitations of foundation models in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Bowen Jiang , Zhijun Zhuang , Shreyas S. Shivakumar , Dan Roth , Camillo J. Taylor

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) effectively discovers new Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, particularly for accuracy optimization. However, prior approaches often require resource-intensive training on super networks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ye Qiao , Haocheng Xu , Yifan Zhang , Sitao Huang

Variational quantum algorithms, inspired by neural networks, have become a novel approach in quantum computing. However, designing efficient parameterized quantum circuits remains a challenge. Quantum architecture search tackles this by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Haozhen Situ , Zhimin He , Shenggen Zheng , Lvzhou Li

The limitations of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices have motivated the development of Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs), which are designed to potentially achieve quantum advantage for specific tasks. Quantum Architecture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Junjian Su , Jiacheng Fan , Shengyao Wu , Guanghui Li , Sujuan Qin , Fei Gao

Quantum architecture search (QAS) is desired to construct a powerful and general QAS platform which can significantly accelerate quantum advantages in error-prone and depth limited quantum circuits in today Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Anqi Zhang , Shengmei Zhao

Recently, zero-shot (or training-free) Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approaches have been proposed to liberate NAS from the expensive training process. The key idea behind zero-shot NAS approaches is to design proxies that can predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Guihong Li , Duc Hoang , Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Ming Lin , Zhangyang Wang , Radu Marculescu

Quantum architecture search (QAS) involves optimizing both the quantum parametric circuit configuration but also its parameters for a variational quantum algorithm. Thus, the problem is known to be multi-level as the performance of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Vicente P. Soloviev , Vedran Dunjko , Concha Bielza , Pedro Larrañaga , Hao Wang

Unsupervised representation learning presents new opportunities for advancing Quantum Architecture Search (QAS) on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. QAS is designed to optimize quantum circuits for Variational Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Yize Sun , Zixin Wu , Volker Tresp , Yunpu Ma

Quantum annealing is a practical approach to approximately implement the adiabatic quantum computational model under a real-world setting. The goal of an adiabatic algorithm is to prepare the ground state of a problem-encoded Hamiltonian at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Yu-Qin Chen , Yu Chen , Chee-Kong Lee , Shengyu Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are promising for near- and intermediate-term quantum computing, but their execution cost is substantial. Each task requires many iterations and numerous circuits per iteration, and real-world…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Yuewen Hou , Dhanvi Bharadwaj , Gokul Subramanian Ravi

We present a new optimization method for small-to-intermediate scale variational algorithms on noisy near-term quantum processors which uses a Gaussian process surrogate model equipped with a classically-evaluated quantum kernel.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Alistair W. R. Smith , A. J. Paige , M. S. Kim

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) provide a promising approach to achieve quantum advantage in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era. In this era, quantum computers experience high error rates and quantum error detection and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Salonik Resch , Anthony Gutierrez , Joon Suk Huh , Srikant Bharadwaj , Yasuko Eckert , Gabriel Loh , Mark Oskin , Swamit Tannu

In Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era, quantum processing units (QPUs) suffer from, among others, highly limited connectivity between physical qubits. To make a quantum circuit effectively executable, a circuit transformation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Xiangzhen Zhou , Yuan Feng , Sanjiang Li

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is widely used to automatically obtain the neural network with the best performance among a large number of candidate architectures. To reduce the search time, zero-shot NAS aims at designing training-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Guihong Li , Yuedong Yang , Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Radu Marculescu

Model quantization is a promising approach to compress deep neural networks and accelerate inference, making it possible to be deployed on mobile and edge devices. To retain the high performance of full-precision models, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are promising hybrid quantum-classical methods designed to leverage the computational advantages of quantum computing while mitigating the limitations of current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ)…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Saibal De , Oliver Knitter , Rohan Kodati , Paramsothy Jayakumar , James Stokes , Shravan Veerapaneni

The emergence of quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) is propelled by advancements in quantum computing (QC) and machine learning (ML), particularly through quantum neural networks (QNN) built on variational quantum circuits (VQC). These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen