[from qiskit] Add Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) optimizer for VQAs

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[from qiskit] Add Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) optimizer for VQAs #62

Open ElePT opened 1 year ago

ElePT commented 1 year ago

What should we add?

Qiskit terra interface for CMA-ES which is a stochastic derivative-free numerical optimization algorithm, observed in arXiv:2111.13454 to be on par with and sometimes outperforming SPSA with appropriate hyperparameter tuning [^1].

[^1]: I would be more than happy to work on this.

ElePT commented 1 year ago

Opened by @Unathi-Skosana Original issue & discussion: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/issues/10262