Cutting and Quantum ML

Run circuits wider than the device with cutting, then meet variational circuits, data encoding and QAOA.

4 lessons12 exercises48 min180 XP

1. 01Circuit cuttingCut a gate, run the halves, recombine: the sampling overhead and when it pays off.14 min · 45 XP
2. 02Variational circuitsParameterised gates, a cost function and a classical optimiser: the loop behind VQE and QAOA.12 min · 45 XP
3. 03Data encodingBasis, angle and amplitude encoding: how classical data enters a circuit and what each choice costs.10 min · 45 XP
4. 04QAOA on a small graphCost and mixer layers for MaxCut, read off the cut from the histogram, and understand the depth p.12 min · 45 XP