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BRIDG-Q: Barren-Plateau-Resilient Initialisation with Data-Aware LLM-Generated Quantum Circuits

Emerging Technologies 2026-03-26 v1

Abstract

Quantum circuit initialisation is a key bottleneck in variational quantum algorithms (VQAs), strongly impacting optimisation stability and convergence. Recent work shows that large language models (LLMs) can synthesise high-quality variational circuit architectures, but their continuous parameter predictions are unreliable. Conversely, data-driven initialisation methods such as BEINIT improve trainability via problem-adaptive priors, yet assume fixed ansatz templates and ignore generative circuit structure. We propose BRIDG-Q (Barren-Plateau-Resilient Initialisation with Data-Aware LLM-Generated Quantum Circuits), a neuro-symbolic pipeline that bridges this gap by coupling LLM-generated circuit architectures with empirical-Bayes parameter initialisation. BRIDG-Q uses AgentQ to generate problem-conditioned circuit topologies, removes generated parameters, and injects data-informed parameter initialisations to mitigate barren plateau effects. Evaluations on graph optimisation benchmarks using residual energy gap and convergence metrics show improved optimisation robustness, indicating that data-driven initialisation remains effective even for LLM-generated circuits, with oracle per-instance selection achieving approximately a 10% reduction in final residual energy.

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@article{arxiv.2603.23979,
  title  = {BRIDG-Q: Barren-Plateau-Resilient Initialisation with Data-Aware LLM-Generated Quantum Circuits},
  author = {Ngoc Nhi Nguyen and Thai T Vu and John Le and Hoa Khanh Dam and Dung Hoang Duong and Dinh Thai Hoang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.23979},
  year   = {2026}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures

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