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Afrad Basheer

3 accepted papers

2025

On the Trainability and Classical Simulability of Learning Matrix Product States Variationally

AAAI 2025technical

We prove that using global observables to train the matrix product state ansatz results in the vanishing of all partial derivatives, also known as barren plateaus, while using local observables avoids this. This ansatz is widely used in quantum machine learning for learning weakly entangled state ap…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Ansatz-Agnostic Exponential Resource Saving in Variational Quantum Algorithms Using Shallow Shadows

IJCAI 2024poster

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQA) have been identified as a promising candidate for the demonstration of near-term quantum advantage in solving optimization tasks in chemical simulation, quantum information, and machine learning. The standard model of training requires a significant amount of qua…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

Alternating Layered Variational Quantum Circuits Can Be Classically Optimized Efficiently Using Classical Shadows

AAAI 2023technical

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are the quantum analog of classical neural networks (NNs). A VQA consists of a parameterized quantum circuit (PQC) which is composed of multiple layers of ansatzes (simpler PQCs, which are an analogy of NN layers) that differ only in selections of parameters. Pr…