Scientific Challenge
- Work exists on using ML and search-based techniques to evolve quantum circuits and algorithms from scratch.
- Work exists on quantum error correction schemes.
- What about evolving an algorithm from scratch that includes error correction?
Evolving Robus Circuits
- Previous search-based approaches to evolving algorithms evaluates the quality of a candidate solution using an ideal simulator.
- What about evaluating solutions using a noisy simulator?
- With a specific error model in mind, robustness becomes “baked in” to the fitness function.
Embracing Ensembles
- Repeated runs of a single quantum circuit can be combined to produce a final result for some problem.
- What about combining the results of an ensemble of diverse circuits with contrasting strengths and weaknesses?
- This approach is also a means of adapting to limited resources.
The Team
John A Clark
Rob Hierons
Phil McMinn
