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barren plateau: a standalone construct

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Quantum computing

the vanishing of gradients, exponentially in qubit number, across the training landscape of randomly initialized parameterized quantum circuits.

In quantum computing, barren plateau refers to the vanishing of gradients, exponentially in qubit number, across the training landscape of randomly initialized parameterized quantum circuits. This meaning comes from McClean (2018) in Nature Communications.[1]

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References

McClean, J. R., Boixo, S., Smelyanskiy, V. N., Babbush, R., & Neven, H. (2018). Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes. Nature Communications, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07090-4

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