A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Edward Farhi; Jeffrey Goldstone; Sam Gutmann

doi:10.48550/arxiv.1411.4028

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A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

arXiv

Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, Sam Gutmann

We introduce a quantum algorithm that produces approximate solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. The algorithm depends on a positive integer p and the quality of the approximation improves as p is increased. The quantum circuit that implements the algorithm consists of unitary gates whose locality is at most the locality of the objective function whose optimum is sought. The depth of the circuit grows linearly with p times (at worst) the number of constraints. If p is fixed, that is, independent of the input size, the algorithm makes use of efficient classical preprocessing. If p grows with the input size a different strategy is proposed. We study the algorithm as applied to MaxCut on regular graphs and analyze its performance on 2-regular and 3-regular graphs for fixed p. For p = 1, on 3-regular graphs the quantum algorithm always finds a cut that is at least 0.6924 times the size of the optimal cut.

10.48550/arxiv.1411.4028

Published 2014

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