An initialization strategy for addressing barren plateaus in parametrized quantum circuits

Parametrized quantum circuits initialized with random initial parameter values are characterized by barren plateaus where the gradient becomes exponentially small in the number of qubits. In this technical note we theoretically motivate and empirically validate an initialization strategy which can r...

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Main Authors: Edward Grant, Leonard Wossnig, Mateusz Ostaszewski, Marcello Benedetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Verein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 2019-12-01
Series:Quantum
Online Access:https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2019-12-09-214/pdf/