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In recent years, parameterized quantum circuits have become a major tool to design quantum algorithms for optimization problems. The challenge in fully taking advantage of a given family of parameterized circuits lies in finding a good set of parameters in a non-convex landscape that can grow exponentially to the number of parameters. We introduce a new framework for optimizing parameterized quantum circuits: round SDP solutions to circuit parameters. Within this framework, we propose an algorithm that produces approximate solutions for a quantum optimization problem called Quantum Max Cut. The rounding algorithm runs in polynomial time to the number of parameters regardless of the underlying interaction graph. The resulting 0.562-approximation algorithm for generic instances of Quantum Max Cut improves on the previously known best algorithms by Anshu, Gosset, and Morenz with a ratio 0.531 and by Parekh and Thompson with a ratio 0.533.
@InProceedings{lee:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.48,
author = {Lee, Eunou},
title = {{Optimizing Quantum Circuit Parameters via SDP}},
booktitle = {33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022)},
pages = {48:1--48:16},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-258-7},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2022},
volume = {248},
editor = {Bae, Sang Won and Park, Heejin},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.48},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-173330},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.48},
annote = {Keywords: Quantum algorithm, Optimization, Rounding algorithm, Quantum Circuit, Approximation}
}