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Random Natural Gradient
Ioannis Kolotouros, Petros Wallden
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Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms appear to be the most promising approach for near-term quantum applications. An important bottleneck is the classical optimization loop, where the multiple local minima and the emergence of barren plateaux make these approaches less appealing. To improve the optimization the Quantum Natural Gradient (QNG) method [Quantum 4, 269 (2020)] was introduced - a method that uses information about the local geometry of the quantum state-space. While the QNG-based optimization is promising, in each step it requires more quantum resources, since to compute the QNG one requires O(m²) quantum state preparations, where m is the number of parameters in the parameterized circuit. In this work we propose two methods that reduce the resources/state preparations required for QNG, while keeping the advantages and performance of the QNG-based optimization. Specifically, we first introduce the Random Natural Gradient (RNG) that uses random measurements and the classical Fisher information matrix (as opposed to the quantum Fisher information used in QNG). The essential quantum resources reduce to linear O(m) and thus offer a quadratic "speed-up", while in our numerical simulations it matches QNG in terms of accuracy. We give some theoretical arguments for RNG and then benchmark the method with the QNG on both classical and quantum problems. Secondly, inspired by stochastic-coordinate methods, we propose a novel approximation to the QNG which we call Stochastic-Coordinate Quantum Natural Gradient that optimizes only a small (randomly sampled) fraction of the total parameters at each iteration. This method also performs equally well in our benchmarks, while it uses fewer resources than the QNG.
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