arXiv:2602.16233cs.DCcs.LG2026-02被引 1

通过电路切割实现量子神经网络分布式训练,提升可扩展性。

DistributedEstimator: Distributed Training of Quantum Neural Networks via Circuit Cutting

  • 将电路切割视为分阶段分布式任务,分四步执行:划分、生成子实验、并行运行、经典重构。
  • 重构耗时占主导(中位数53%,95%分位数58%),限制加速效果。
  • 精度与鲁棒性在切割后保持不变,适合小规模量子系统学习任务。

电路切割将大量子电路分解为独立执行的小子电路;通过经典组合子电路结果恢复期望值。以往工作以子电路数量和采样复杂度衡量切割开销,但缺乏对迭代式估计驱动训练流程的端到端系统评估。本文提出DistributedEstimator,一个感知切割的估计器执行管道,将电路切割视为分阶段分布式任务,对每个查询进行四阶段处理:划分、子实验生成、并行执行、经典重构。基于两个二分类任务(Iris和MNIST)的运行时日志与学习结果,我们量化了切割开销、扩展极限及对延迟拖尾者的敏感性,并评估在相同训练预算下精度与鲁棒性的保持情况。重构阶段主导单次查询时间——在三处切割时中位数为53%,95%分位数达58%,限制了并行下的可实现加速。尽管如此,Iris测试精度完全保留,MNIST在所有切割配置下未出现系统性下降。在高斯噪声和FGSM扰动下,鲁棒性同样得以保持,部分配置甚至优于未切割基线。基于CNOT的分解导致子实验数量呈指数增长($O(9^c)$),是限制实际实验仅限于小比特数的根本障碍。结果表明,实用扩展需减少并重叠重构、优化阻塞主导关键路径的调度策略,以及开发更高效的重构算法以应对更大比特数。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Circuit cutting decomposes a large quantum circuit into smaller subcircuits executed independently; expectation values are recovered by classically combining subcircuit outcomes. Prior work characterises cutting overhead via subcircuit counts and sampling complexity, but its end-to-end impact on iterative, estimator-driven training pipelines remains under-measured from a systems perspective. We propose DistributedEstimator, a cut-aware estimator execution pipeline that treats circuit cutting as a staged distributed workload, instrumenting each query across four phases: partitioning, subexperiment generation, parallel execution, and classical reconstruction. Using logged runtime traces and learning outcomes on two binary classification workloads (Iris and MNIST), we quantify cutting overheads, scaling limits, and sensitivity to injected stragglers, and assess whether accuracy and robustness are preserved under matched training budgets. Reconstruction dominates per-query time -- a median of 53% and 95th percentile of 58% at three cuts -- bounding achievable speed-up under parallelism. Despite this, test accuracy is fully preserved on Iris and maintained without systematic degradation on MNIST across all cut configurations. Robustness under Gaussian noise and FGSM perturbations is similarly preserved, with several configurations matching or improving on the uncut baseline. Exponential growth of subexperiment counts (${O}(9^c)$ for CNOT-based decomposition) is a fundamental barrier limiting practical experimentation to small qubit counts. These results establish that practical scaling for learning workloads requires reducing and overlapping reconstruction, scheduling policies for barrier-dominated critical paths, and computationally efficient reconstruction strategies for larger qubit counts.

量子机器学习电路切割分布式训练量子计算

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