Measurement-Efficient Differentiable Quantum Architecture Search for Combinatorial Optimization

arXiv:2610.10351 · quant-ph, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures. Accepted at the 2026 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI). Code and data: https://github.com/Newida/ME-DQAS

Code: https://github.com/Newida/ME-DQAS

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Combinatorial Optimization — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Differentiable Quantum Architecture Search — 8× in this paper
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Circuits — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptive Algorithm — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Objective Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• QUBO Formulation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm
• How to really measure operator gradients in ADAPT-VQE

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