arXiv:2504.13376quant-phcs.AI2025-04中稿 · publication in Fut…被引 12

优化量子退火的嵌入质量,可显著提升求解精度

Addressing the Minor-Embedding Problem in Quantum Annealing and Evaluating State-of-the-Art Algorithm Performance

  • 通过分析嵌入链长与解误差的关系,揭示嵌入质量的关键作用
  • 发现主流工具Minorminer的嵌入效果仍有明显提升空间
  • 适合关注量子退火性能优化的研究者和应用开发者

本研究针对量子退火中的小规模嵌入问题,即如何将伊辛模型变量映射到量子退火处理器上。其动机源于量子退火器在解决适配硬件拓扑的问题与非原生拓扑问题时表现差异显著。研究旨在:1)分析嵌入质量对D-Wave量子退火器性能的影响;2)评估由D-Wave提供的标准嵌入算法Minorminer的嵌入质量、鲁棒性及执行效率。实验表明,嵌入平均链长与采样解的相对误差呈明显正相关,凸显嵌入质量的重要性。在埃拉托斯特尼-雷尼随机图(Erdös-Rényi graphs)上的对比测试显示,与确定性全连接嵌入算法Clique Embedding相比,Minorminer存在较大改进空间,暗示更优嵌入策略有望带来实质性性能提升。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This study addresses the minor-embedding problem, which involves mapping the variables of an Ising model onto a quantum annealing processor. The primary motivation stems from the observed performance disparity of quantum annealers when solving problems suited to the processor's architecture versus those with non-hardware-native topologies. Our research has two main objectives: i) to analyze the impact of embedding quality on the performance of D-Wave Systems quantum annealers, and ii) to evaluate the quality of the embeddings generated by Minorminer, the standard minor-embedding technique in the quantum annealing literature, provided by D-Wave. Regarding the first objective, our experiments reveal a clear correlation between the average chain length of embeddings and the relative errors of the solutions sampled. This underscores the critical influence of embedding quality on quantum annealing performance. For the second objective, we evaluate Minorminer's embedding capabilities, the quality and robustness of its embeddings, and its execution-time performance on Erdös-Rényi graphs. We also compare its performance with Clique Embedding, another algorithm developed by D-Wave, which is deterministic and designed to embed fully connected Ising models into quantum annealing processors, serving as a worst-case scenario. The results demonstrate that there is significant room for improvement for Minorminer, suggesting that more effective embedding strategies could lead to meaningful gains in quantum annealing performance.

量子退火嵌入优化D-Wave伊辛模型

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