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A framework for quantum computing
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Specialized minimizers for variational circuits #235

Open DiegoGM91 opened 3 years ago

DiegoGM91 commented 3 years ago

As discussed today, it may be a good idea to incorporate some specialized/customized minimizers for variational circuits.

Here I leave some references where they are introduced or benchmarked.

Quantum Natural Gradient

Avoiding local minima in variational quantum eigensolvers with the natural gradient optimizer

Quantum Analytic Descent

scarrazza commented 1 year ago

cc @MatteoRobbiati in view of annealers and psr.