no code implementations • 24 Apr 2024 • Maniraman Periyasamy, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler, Daniel D. Scherer, Wolfgang Mauerer
The computational complexity, in terms of the number of circuit evaluations required for gradient estimation by the parameter-shift rule, scales linearly with the number of parameters in VQCs.
1 code implementation • 9 Apr 2024 • Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler, Daniel D. Scherer, Andreas Maier
Quantum computer simulation software is an integral tool for the research efforts in the quantum computing community.
no code implementations • 27 Apr 2023 • Maniraman Periyasamy, Marc Hölle, Marco Wiedmann, Daniel D. Scherer, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) often requires a large number of data and environment interactions, making the training process time-consuming.
no code implementations • 27 Apr 2023 • Marco Wiedmann, Marc Hölle, Maniraman Periyasamy, Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Daniel D. Scherer, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler
We introduce a novel approach that uses the approximated gradient from SPSA in combination with state-of-the-art gradient-based classical optimizers.
no code implementations • 7 Nov 2022 • Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy, Daniel D. Scherer, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler
Quantum reinforcement learning is an emerging field at the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning.
no code implementations • 6 May 2022 • Maniraman Periyasamy, Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Daniel D. Scherer, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler
Encoding high dimensional data into a quantum circuit for a NISQ device without any loss of information is not trivial and brings a lot of challenges.
1 code implementation • 10 Feb 2022 • Maja Franz, Lucas Wolf, Maniraman Periyasamy, Christian Ufrecht, Daniel D. Scherer, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler, Wolfgang Mauerer
In this work, we examine a class of hybrid quantum-classical RL algorithms that we collectively refer to as variational quantum deep Q-networks (VQ-DQN).