Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes

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Summary

It is shown that for a wide class of reasonable parameterized quantum circuits, the probability that the gradient along any reasonable direction is non-zero to some fixed precision is exponentially small as a function of the number of qubits.

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2018-03-29
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Keywords

Computer science, Qubit, Parameterized complexity, Quantum circuit, Quantum algorithm

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