arXiv:2604.21863quant-phcs.AI2026-04

改进经验回放缓冲区,让量子电路优化更省样本、抗噪声、提速。

Replay-buffer engineering for noise-robust quantum circuit optimization

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  • 用动态优先级策略,早期按误差选样,后期看可靠性采样。
  • 在多个任务上样本效率提升4-32倍,电路更紧凑,噪声下表现稳定。
  • 可复用无噪轨迹快速启动训练,减少85%-90%迭代步数,适合硬件受限场景。

深度强化学习用于量子电路优化面临三大瓶颈:回放缓冲区忽略时序差分目标的可靠性,基于课程的架构搜索在每步环境交互中触发完整量子-经典评估,以及重训时常规丢弃无噪轨迹。本文将回放缓冲区作为核心优化杠杆,提出ReaPER+:一种退火式回放规则,训练初期依据TD误差优先采样,价值估计成熟后转向可靠性感知采样,在量子编译与QAS基准测试中实现4-32倍样本效率提升,持续发现更紧凑电路;在LunarLander-v3上的验证表明该原则具备领域无关性。此外,提出OptCRLQAS,通过多架构修改共享昂贵的量子-经典评估,使12量子比特问题每回合耗时减少最高67.5%,且不降低解质量。最后引入轻量级回放转移方案,无需权重迁移或ε贪心预训练即可复用无噪轨迹,使6、8、12量子比特分子任务达到化学精度所需步数减少85%-90%,最终能量误差降低高达90%。三项成果共同表明,经验存储、采样与迁移是实现可扩展、抗噪声量子电路优化的关键杠杆。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) for quantum circuit optimization faces three fundamental bottlenecks: replay buffers that ignore the reliability of temporal-difference (TD) targets, curriculum-based architecture search that triggers a full quantum-classical evaluation at every environment step, and the routine discard of noiseless trajectories when retraining under hardware noise. We address all three by treating the replay buffer as a primary algorithmic lever for quantum optimization. We introduce ReaPER$+$, an annealed replay rule that transitions from TD error-driven prioritization early in training to reliability-aware sampling as value estimates mature, achieving $4-32\times$ gains in sample efficiency over fixed PER, ReaPER, and uniform replay while consistently discovering more compact circuits across quantum compilation and QAS benchmarks; validation on LunarLander-v3 confirms the principle is domain-agnostic. Furthermore we eliminate the quantum-classical evaluation bottleneck in curriculum RL by introducing OptCRLQAS which amortizes expensive evaluations over multiple architectural edits, cutting wall-clock time per episode by up to $67.5\%$ on a 12-qubit optimization problem without degrading solution quality. Finally we introduce a lightweight replay-buffer transfer scheme that warm-starts noisy-setting learning by reusing noiseless trajectories, without network-weight transfer or $ε$-greedy pretraining. This reduces steps to chemical accuracy by up to $85-90\%$ and final energy error by up to $90\%$ over from-scratch baselines on 6-, 8-, and 12-qubit molecular tasks. Together, these results establish that experience storage, sampling, and transfer are decisive levers for scalable, noise-robust quantum circuit optimization.

量子优化强化学习回放缓冲抗噪声

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