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A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) feature request.

Open dlasecki opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

As confirmed with @cgranade, Microsoft Quantum Libraries lack the implementation of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.4028.pdf). There is a problem-specific implementation in Q# available here.

A general implementation within Quantum Libraries would be useful. For a fixed value of a parameter p (see the paper), the contribution should include the use of a classical optimizer to choose optimal starting angles.

dlasecki avatar Jan 18 '20 17:01 dlasecki