通过身份对称结构提升量子算法训练稳定性,实现深度增加下的持续优化能力。
Identity-Paired Progressive Depth Training: When Trainability Persists Beyond Expressibility

- 采用正反块对设计,使新增层初始时等效于无纠缠,避免能量突增
- 训练中表达能力饱和后仍能持续优化,突破传统训练瓶颈
- 适合追求高效训练的量子机器学习研究者与硬件受限场景
变分量子算法(VQAs)是近期量子计算的核心范式,但其训练易受电路深度、初始化及梯度消失等问题影响。本文研究逐层递增训练(PDT),发现硬件高效参数化中的固定纠缠门(如CNOT)会导致‘初始化冲击’——新层接入引发能量骤升。为此提出身份配对渐进深度训练(IP-PDT):在每层添加标准旋转+CNOT块及其逆操作,初始时整体作用为恒等变换。由于相邻CNOT相互抵消,有效电路仅保留单一纠缠层与过参数化局部旋转。我们证明了‘可到达集饱和定理’:变分流形仅在首次引入纠缠后膨胀一次并趋于饱和;后续深度增加仅为单量子比特酉的过参数化。尽管表达能力已达极限,旋转参数继续增加仍可改善优化结果,即‘训练性超越表达性’。我们将IP-PDT形式化为嵌套流形上的延续方法,证明在特定接受规则下能量单调下降,并通过谱隙不等式将能量误差与基态保真度关联。资源分析显示,相比基线方法,IP-PDT显著降低总门成本,因大幅减少CNOT门使用。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are a leading paradigm for near-term quantum computing, yet their training suffers from sensitivity to circuit depth, initialization, and landscape pathologies such as barren plateaus. We study \emph{progressive depth training} (PDT) -- a layerwise curriculum that trains a shallow circuit before appending new layers -- and identify a fundamental obstacle: fixed entangling gates (CNOTs) in hardware-efficient ansätze cause \emph{initialization shock}, an energy spike when new layers are added. We propose \emph{identity-paired progressive depth training} (IP-PDT), which appends forward/inverse block pairs -- each consisting of a standard rotation$+$CNOT block followed by its reverse -- that compose to the identity at initialization. Because the adjacent CNOT rings cancel, the effective circuit retains only \textit{a single entangling layer} surrounded by \textit{overparameterized local rotations}. We prove a simple \textit{Reachable Set Saturation Theorem}: under this construction the variational manifold expands exactly once (when post-entangler rotations are first introduced) and then \emph{saturates}; all subsequent depth increases provide pure overparameterization of single-qubit unitaries. Despite this saturation, progressive addition of rotation parameters can continue to improve optimization outcomes -- a phenomenon we term \emph{trainability beyond expressibility}. We formalize IP-PDT as a continuation method on nested manifolds, prove monotone energy guarantees under an acceptance rule, and connect energy error to ground-state fidelity through spectral-gap inequalities. A detailed resource analysis shows that IP-PDT achieves lower total gate cost than both baselines by eliminating most CNOT gates.
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