arXiv:2607.01329quant-phcs.LG2026-07

发现量子算法优化中的低代价路径,提升预测精度与效率

Ravines in quantum cost landscapes: opportunities for improved VQA predictions

  • 用化学中的弹性带法识别量子成本景观中的低代价通道
  • 基于路径平均的集成预测框架显著优于传统方法
  • 新指标可预判算法性能,适合量子算法优化研究者

量子成本景观(QCL)的几何结构决定变分量子算法(VQA)的优化能力与预测性能。本文采用改进的弹道弹性带(NEB)算法,系统分析连接局部极小值的低代价路径(即峡谷)。通过训练量子神经网络(QNN)分类量子态纠缠度,数值识别出硬件高效线路中存在峡谷结构。除可视化外,还沿低代价路径参数化多个QNN并平均其预测结果,构建集成预测框架。提出一种轻量级预训练指标,量化局部预测波动性,可有效预测VQA性能。当基分类器来自高局部预测波动性的电路与权重初始化时,该量子增强的NEB集成方法优于经典及朴素量子方案。复杂度分析表明,该方法相比朴素集成显著降低计算开销;深度与量子比特扩展测试显示峡谷结构持续存在,且在增加资源需求背景下仍加速收敛。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The geometric and topological structure of quantum cost landscapes (QCLs) governs the optimization and thus the predictive power of variational quantum algorithms (VQAs). We systematically analyze ravines - low-cost paths connecting local minima - using an adapted version of the nudged elastic band (NEB) algorithm, a method originating from theoretical chemistry. By training quantum neural networks (QNNs) to classify the concentratable entanglement of quantum states, we apply the NEB algorithm and numerically identify ravine structures in QCLs of hardware-efficient ansatzes. Beyond visualizing these ravines, we construct an ensemble prediction framework by averaging predictions from QNNs parameterized along the low-cost NEB path. We introduce a resource-light pre-training metric which quantifies local-prediction variability and serves as a strong performance indicator for VQAs, even beyond the scope of this study. When base classifiers are drawn from circuit and weight initializations exhibiting high local-prediction variability, the quantum-based NEB ensembles outperform both classical and naive quantum alternatives. Moreover, a complexity analysis shows that leveraging the ravine-like structure of QCLs with the QNN NEB approach substantially reduces computational costs compared to naive QNN ensembling. A depth and qubit scaling analysis indicates that ravines persist across both scalings, and that, despite the expected growth in resource requirements with the qubit scaling, the NEB approach also accelerates convergence over the naive alternative.

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