Quantum-Based Self-Attention Mechanism for Hardware-Aware Differentiable Quantum Architecture Search
Yuxiang Liu, Sixuan Li, Fanxu Meng, Zaichen Zhang, Xutao Yu

TL;DR
This paper introduces QBSA-DQAS, a quantum-based self-attention framework for hardware-aware quantum architecture search, improving variational quantum algorithms' performance and circuit efficiency under noisy quantum hardware conditions.
Contribution
It presents a novel quantum self-attention mechanism integrated into differentiable architecture search, optimized for noisy quantum hardware and validated on VQE and wireless sensor network tasks.
Findings
Achieves higher accuracy on VQE tasks compared to classical methods.
Reduces quantum circuit complexity significantly without loss of performance.
Demonstrates effective quantum-native architecture search for NISQ applications.
Abstract
The automated design of parameterized quantum circuits for variational algorithms in the NISQ era faces a fundamental limitation, as conventional differentiable architecture search relies on classical models that fail to adequately represent quantum gate interactions under hardware noise. We introduce the Quantum-Based Self-Attention for Differentiable Quantum Architecture Search (QBSA-DQAS), a meta-learning framework featuring quantum-based self-attention and hardware-aware multi-objective search. The framework employs a two-stage quantum self-attention module that computes contextual dependencies by mapping architectural parameters through parameterized quantum circuits, replacing classical similarity metrics with quantum-derived attention scores, then applies position-wise quantum transformations for feature enrichment. Architecture search is guided by a task-agnostic multi-objective…
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TopicsQuantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture · Machine Learning in Materials Science · Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
