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QFactor: A Domain-Specific Optimizer for Quantum Circuit Instantiation

13 Jun 2023arXiv:2306.08152links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Alon Kukliansky, Ed Younis, Lukasz Cincio, Costin Iancu

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We introduce a domain-specific algorithm for numerical optimization operations used by quantum circuit instantiation, synthesis, and compilation methods. QFactor uses a tensor network formulation together with analytic methods and an iterative local optimization algorithm to reduce the number of problem parameters. Besides tailoring the optimization process, the formulation is amenable to portable parallelization across CPU and GPU architectures, which is usually challenging in general purpose optimizers (GPO). Compared with several GPOs, our algorithm achieves exponential memory and performance savings with similar optimization success rates. While GPOs can handle directly circuits of up to six qubits, QFactor can process circuits with more than 12 qubits. Within the BQSKit optimization framework, we enable optimizations of 100+ qubit circuits using gate deletion algorithms to scale out linearly with the hardware resources allocated for compilation in GPU environments.

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