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Analyzing The Quantum Annealing Approach For Solving Linear Least Squares Problems
1. arXiv:1809.07649v3
[quant-ph]
1
Nov
2018
Analyzing the Quantum Annealing Approach for
Solving Linear Least Squares Problems
Ajinkya Borle( )
and Samuel J. Lomonaco
CSEE Department,University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore MD 21250
{aborle1,lomonaco}@umbc.edu
Abstract. With the advent of quantum computers, researchers are ex-
ploring if quantum mechanics can be leveraged to solve important prob-
lems in ways that may provide advantages not possible with conventional
or classical methods. A previous work by O'Malley and Vesselinov in
2016 briefly explored using a quantum annealing machine for solving lin-
ear least squares problems for real numbers. They suggested that it is
best suited for binary and sparse versions of the problem. In our work, we
propose a more compact way to represent variables using two’s and one’s
complement on a quantum annealer. We then do an in-depth theoretical
analysis of this approach, showing the conditions for which this method
may be able to outperform the traditional classical methods for solving
general linear least squares problems. Finally, based on our analysis and
observations, we discuss potentially promising areas of further research
where quantum annealing can be especially beneficial.
Keywords: Quantum Annealing · Simulated Annealing · Quantum Com-
puting · Combinatorial Optimization · Linear Least Squares · Numerical
Methods.
1 Introduction
Quantum computing opens up a new paradigm of approaching computational
problems that may be able to provide advantages that classical (i.e. conven-
tional) computation cannot match. A specific subset of quantum computing is
the quantum annealing meta-heuristic, which is aimed at optimization problems.
Quantum annealing is a hardware implementation of exploiting the effects of
quantum mechanics in hopes to get as close to a global minimum of the objec-
tive function [4]. One popular model of an optimization problem that quantum
annealers are based upon is the Ising Model [13]. It can be written as:
F(h, J) =
X
a
haσa +
X
a<b
Jabσaσb (1)
where σa ∈ {−1, 1} represents the qubit (quantum bit) spin and ha and Jab are
the coefficients for the qubit spins and couplers respectively [7]. The quantum
annealer’s job is to return the set of values for σas that would correspond to the
smallest value of F(h, J).
2. 2 Borle and Lomonaco
There have been various efforts by different organizations to make non Von
Neumann architecture computers based on the Ising model such as D-wave Sys-
tems [14] and IARPA’s QEO effort [1] that are attempting to make quantum
annealers. Other similar efforts are focussed towards making ‘quantum like’ opti-
mizers for the Ising model, such as Fujistu’s Digital Annealer chip [3] and NTT’s
photonic quantum neural network [12]. The former is a quantum inspired clas-
sical annealer and the latter uses photonic qubits for doing its optimization. At
the time of writing this document, D-wave computers are the most prominent
Ising model based quantum annealers.
In order to solve a problem on a quantum annealer, the programmers first
have to convert their problem for the Ising model. A lot of work has been done
showing various types of problems running on D-wave machines [2,16,17].
In 2016, O’Malley and Vesselinov [15] briefly explored using the D-wave
Quantum Annealer for the linear least squares problem for binary and real num-
bers. In this paper, we shall study their approach in more detail. Section 2 is
devoted to the necessary background and related work for our results. Section 3 is
a review of the quantum annealing approach where we introduce one’s and two’s
complement encoding for a quantum annealer. Section 4 deals with the runtime
cost analysis and comparison where we define necessary conditions for expect-
ing a speedup. Section 5 is dedicated to theoretical accuracy analysis. Based on
our results, Section 6 is a discussion which lays out potentially promising future
work. We finally conclude our paper with Section 7. The D-wave 2000Q and the
experiments performed on them are elaborated upon in Appendices A and B
respectively.
2 Background and Related Work
2.1 Background
Before we get started, we shall first lay out the terms and concepts we will use
in the rest of the paper.
Quantum Annealing: The Quantum Annealing approach aims to employ
quantum mechanical phenomena to traverse through the energy landscape of the
Ising model to find the ground state configuration of σa variables from Eqn(1).
The σa variables are called as qubits spins in quantum annealing, essentially
being quantum bits.
The process begins with all qubits in equal quantum superposition: where
all qubits are equally weighted to be either -1 or +1. After going through a
quantum-mechanical evolution of the system, given enough time, the resultant
state would be the ground state or the global minimum of the Ising objective
function. During this process, the entanglement between qubits (in the form of
couplings) along with quantum tunneling effects (to escape being stuck in con-
figurations of local minima) plays a part in the search for the global minimum. A
more detailed description can be found in the book by Tanaka et al. [19]. For our
3. Analyzing QA for lin least squares 3
purposes however, we will focus on the computational aspects related to quan-
tum annealing: cost of preparing the problem for the annealer, cost of annealing
and the accuracy of the answers. From an accuracy perspective, a quantum an-
nealer is essentially trying to take samples of a Boltzmann distribution whose
energy is the Ising objective function [2]
P(σ) =
1
Z
e−F (h,J)
(2)
where Z = exp
X
{σa}
X
a
haσa +
X
ab
Jabσaσb
(3)
Eqn(2) tells us that the qubit configuration of the global minimum would have
the highest probability to be sampled. The D-wave 2000Q is one such quantum
annealer made by D-wave Systems. Its description is in Appendix A.
Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO): These are min-
imization problems of the type
F′
(v, w) =
X
a
vaqa +
X
ab
wabqaqb (4)
where qa ∈ {0, 1} are the qubit variables returned by the machine after the
minimization and va and wab are the coefficients for the qubits and the cou-
plers respectively [7]. The QUBO model is equivalent to the Ising model by the
following relationship between σa and qa
σa = 2qa − 1 (5)
and F(h, J) = F′
(v, w) + offset (6)
Since the offset value is a constant, the actual minimization is only done upon
F or F′
. We use this model for the rest of the paper.
Linear Least Squares: Given a matrix A ∈ Rm×n
, a column vector of variables
x ∈ Rn
and a column vector b ∈ Rm
(Where m n). The linear least squares
problem is to find the x that would minimize kAx−bk the most. In other words,
it can be described as:
arg min
x
kAx − bk (7)
Various classical algorithms have been developed over the time in order to solve
this problem. Some of the most prominent ones are (1)Normal Equations by
Cholesky Factorization, (2) QR Factorization and the (3) SVD Method [6].
2.2 Related Work
The technique of using quantum annealing for solving linear least squares prob-
lems for real numbers was created by O’Malley and Vesselinov [15]. In that work,
4. 4 Borle and Lomonaco
they discovered that because the time complexity is in the order of O(mn2
),
which is the same time complexity class as the methods mentioned above, the
approach might be best suited for binary and sparse least squares problem. In
a later work, O’Malley et al. applied binary linear least squares using quantum
annealing for the purposes of nonnegative/binary matrix factorization [16].
The problem of solving linear least squares has been well studied classically.
Like mentioned above, the most prominent methods of solving the problems
are Normal Equations (using Cholesky Factorization), QR Factorization and by
Singular Value Decomposition [6]. But other works in recent years have tried to
get a better time complexity for certain types of matrices, such as the work by
Drineas et. al that presents a randomized algorithm in O(mn log n) for (m n)
[10]. The iterative approximation techniques such as Picani and Wainwright’s
work [18] of using sketch Hessian matrices to solve constrained and unconstrained
least squares problems. But since the approach by O’Malley and Vesselinov is a
direct approach to solve least squares, we shall focus on comparisons with the
big 3 direct methods mentioned above.
Finally, it is important to note that algorithms exists in the gate-based quan-
tum computation model like the one by Wang [22] that runs in poly(log(N), d, κ, 1/ǫ)
where N is the size of data, d is the number of adjustable parameters,κ repre-
sents the condition number of A and ǫ is the desired precision. However, the gate
based quantum machines are at a more nascent stage of development compared
to quantum annealing.
3 Quantum Annealing for Linear Least Squares
In order to solve Eqn(7), let us begin by writing out Ax − b
Ax − b =
A11 A12 ... A1n
A21 A22 ... A2n
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Am1 Am2 ... Amn
x1
x2
.
.
.
xn
−
b1
b2
.
.
.
bm
(8)
Ax − b =
A11x1 + A12x2 + ... + A1nxn − b1
A21x1 + A22x2 + ... + A2nxn − b2
.
.
.
Am1x1 + Am2x2 + ... + Amnxn − bm
(9)
Taking the 2 norm square of the resultant vector of Eqn(9), we get
kAx − bk2
2 =
m
X
i=1
(|Ai1x1 + Ai2x2 + ... + Ainxn − bi|)2
(10)
Because we are dealing with real numbers here, (|.|)2
= (.)2
kAx − bk2
2 =
m
X
i=1
(Ai1x1 + Ai2x2 + ... + Ainxn − bi)2
(11)
5. Analyzing QA for lin least squares 5
Now if we were solving binary least squares [15,16] then each xj would be rep-
resented by the qubit qj. The coefficients in Eqn(4) are found by expanding
Eqn(11) to be
vj =
X
i
Aij(Aij − 2bi) (12)
wjk = 2
X
i
AijAik (13)
But for solving the general version of the least squares problem we need to
represent xj, which is a real number, in its equivalent radix 2 approximation by
using multiple qubits. Let Θ be the set of powers of 2 we use to represent every
xj, defined as
Θ = {2l
: l ∈ [o, p] ∧ l, o, p ∈ Z} (14)
Here, it is assumed that l represents contiguous values from the interval of [o, p].
The values of o and p are the user defined lower and upper limits of the interval.
In the work by O’Malley and Vesselinov [15], the radix 2 representation of xj is
given by
xj ≈
X
θ∈Θ
θqjθ (15)
But this would mean that only approximations of positive real numbers can be
done, so we need to introduce another set of qubits q∗
j , to represent negative real
numbers
xj ≈
X
θ∈Θ
θqjθ +
X
θ∈Θ
−(θq∗
jθ) (16)
Which means that representing a (fixed point approximation of) real number
that can be either positive or negative would require 2|Θ| number of qubits.
However, we can greatly reduce the amount of qubits to be used in Eqn(16)
by introducing a sign bit qj∅
xj ≈ ϑqj∅ +
X
θ∈Θ
θqjθ (17)
where ϑ =
(
−2p+1
, for two’s complement
−2p+1
+ 2o
, for one’s complement
(18)
Where p and o are the upper and lower limits of the exponents used for powers
of 2 present in Θ. In other words, Eqn(17) represents an approximation of a real
number in one’s or two’s complement binary. Combining Eqn(11) and Eqn(17),
we get
kAx − bk2
2 =
m
X
i=1
(Ai1(ϑq1∅ +
X
θ∈Θ
θq1θ)
+Ai2(ϑq2∅ +
X
θ∈Θ
θq2θ) + ... + Ain(ϑqn∅ +
X
θ∈Θ
θqnθ) − bi)2
(19)
6. 6 Borle and Lomonaco
Which means that the v and w coefficients of the qubits for the general version
of the least squares problem would be
vjs =
X
i
sAij(sAij − 2bi) (20)
wjskt = 2st
X
i
AijAik (21)
where s, t ∈ ϑ ∪ Θ
4 Cost analysis and comparison
In order to analyze the cost incurred using a quantum annealer to solve a prob-
lem, one good way is by combining together the (1) time required to prepare
the problem (so that it is in the QUBO/Ising model that the machine would
understand) and (2) the runtime of the problem on the machine.
We can calculate the first part of the cost concretely. But the second part of
the cost depends heavily upon user parameters and heuristics to gauge how long
should the machine run and/or how many runs of the problem should be done.
Nonetheless, we can set some conditions that must hold true if any speedup is
to be observed using a quantum annealer for this problem.
4.1 Cost of preparing the problem
As mentioned in O’Malley and Vesselinov [15] the complexity class of preparing
a QUBO problem from A,x and b is O(mn2
), which is the same as all the
other prominent classical methods to solve linear least squares [6]. However, for
numerical methods, it is also important to analyze the floating point operation
cost as they grow with the data. This is because methods in the same time
complexity class may be comparatively faster or slower.
So starting with Eqn(20), we assume that the values of the set ϑ ∪ Θ are
preprocessed. Matrix A has m rows and n columns, the variable vector x is of
the length n. Let c = |Θ| + 1. To calculate the expression sAij(sAij − 2bi), we
can compute 2bi for m rows first and use the results to help in all the future
computations. After that, we see that it takes 3 flops to process the expression for
1 qubit of the radix 2 representation of a variable, per row. This expression has to
be calculated for n variables each requiring c qubits for the radix 2 representation,
over m rows. That is: it would take 3cmn operations. On top of that, we need to
sum up the resulting elements over all the m rows, which requires an additional
cmn operations. Hence we have
Total cost of computing vjs = 4cmn + m (22)
Now for the operation costs associated with terms processed in Eqn(21). Let us
consider a particular subset of those terms:
wj1k1 = 2
X
i
AijAik (23)
7. Analyzing QA for lin least squares 7
By computing Eqn(23) first, we create a template for all the other wjskt variables
and also reduce the computation cost.Each AijAik operation is 1 flop. There are
n
2
pairs of (j, k) for j k, But we also need to consider pair interactions for
qubits when j = k. Hence we have n
2
+ n operations, which comes out to
0.5(n2
+ n). Furthermore, these w coefficients are computed for m rows with m
summations, which brings the total up to: m(n2
+ n). After this, we need to
multiply 2 to all the resultant 0.5(n2
+ n) variables. Making the total cost:
Cost of all wj1k1 = m(n2
+ n) + 0.5(n2
+ n) (24)
Now we can use wj1k1 for the next step. Without loss in generality, we assume
that ∀s, t ∈ ϑ ∪ Θ, s × t is preprocessed. This would mean that we would have
c
2
+ c qubit to qubit interactions for each pair of variables in x. From the
previous step, we know that we’ll have to do this for n
2
+ n variables. Which
means that the final part of the cost for wjskt is 0.25(c2
+ c)(n2
+ n). Summing
up all the costs, we get the total cost to prepare the entire QUBO problem:
Cost of tot. prep = mn2
+ mn(4c + 1) + 0.25(n2
+ n)(c2
+ c + 2) + m (25)
4.2 Cost of executing the problem
Let τ be the cost of executing the QUBO form of a given problem. It can be
expressed as
τ = atr (26)
Where at is the anneal time per run and r is the number of runs or samples.
However, for ease of analysis, we need to interpret τ in a way where we can study
the runtime in terms of the data itself. The nature of the Ising/Qubo problem
is such that we need O(exp(γNα
)) time classically to get the ground state with
a probability of 1. As stated in Boxio et al. [4], we don’t yet know what’s going
to be the actual time complexity class under quantum annealing for the Ising
problem, but a safe bet is that it won’t reduce the complexity of the Ising to
a polynomial one, only the values of α and γ would be reduced. But because
quantum annealing is a metaheuristic for finding the ground state, we needn’t
necessarily run it for O(exp(γNα
)). We make the following assumption:
τ∗
= poly(cn) (27)
and deg(poly(cn)) = β (28)
Here, τ∗
represents the combined operations required for annealing as well as
post-processing on the returned samples. The assumption is that τ∗
is a poly-
nomial in cn with β as its degree. From Eqn(19), we know that m (number of
rows of the matrix A) doesn’t play a role in deciding the size of the problem
embedded inside the quantum annealer.
The reason for this assumption is the fact that linear least squares is a convex
optimization problem. Thus, even if we don’t get the global minimum solution,
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the hope is to get samples on the convex energy landscape that are close to
the global minimum (Based on the observations in [9]). Using those samples,
and exploiting the convex nature of the energy landscape, the conjecture is that
there exists a polynomial time post-processing technique with β 3 by which
we can converge to the global minimum very quickly. We shall see in section
4.3 why it is important for β 3 for any speed improvement over the standard
classical methods. Just as in Dorband’s MQC technique [9] for generalized Ising
landscapes, we hope that such a technique would be able to intelligently use the
resultant samples. The difference being that we have the added advantage of
convexity in our specific problem.
4.3 Cost comparison with classical methods
In the following table, we compare the costs of the most popular classical meth-
ods for finding linear least squares [6] and the quantum annealing approach.
Table 1. Comparison of the classical methods and QA
Method for Least Squares Operational Cost
Normal Equations mn2
+ n3
/3
QR Factorization 2mn2
− 2n3
/3
SVD 2mn2
+ 11n3
Quantum Annealing
mn2
+ mn(4c + 1) + poly(cn)
+ 0.25(n2
+ n)(c2
+ c + 2) + m
When it comes to theoretical runtime analysis, because c doesn’t necessarily
grow in direct proportion to the number of rows m or columns n, we shall
consider c to be a constant for our analysis.
From Table 1, Let us define CostNE, CostQR, CostSV D and CostQA as
the costs for the methods of finding least squares solution by Normal Equations,
QR Factorization, Singular Value Decomposition and Quantum Annealing (QA)
respectively.
CostNE = mn2
+ n3
/3 (29)
CostQR = 2mn2
− 2n3
/3 (30)
CostSV D = 2mn2
+ 11n3
(31)
CostQA = mn2
+ mn(4c + 1) + poly(cn) + 0.25(n2
+ n)(c2
+ c + 2) + m
(32)
The degree of Eqn(29),Eqn(30),Eqn(31) and Eqn(32) is 3. Since m n, we can
assess that mn2
n3
The next thing we need to do is to define a range for β (degree of pol(cn))
in such a way that Eqn(32) will be competitive with the other methods. This is
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another assumption upon which a speedup is conditional.
0 β 3 (33)
This is done so that we do not have another term of degree 3. Now, we turn our
attention to the terms of the type kmn2
where k is the coefficient, we can see
that the cost of the QA method is lesser than QR Factorization and SVD by a
factor of 2. However, we still have to deal with the cost of the Normal Equations
Method. Let us define ∆CostNE and ∆CostQA as
∆CostNE = CostNE − mn2
= n3
/3 (34)
∆CostQA = CostQA − mn2
= mn(4c + 1) + poly(cn)
+ 0.25(n2
+ n)(c2
+ c + 2) + m
(35)
The degree of ∆CostNE is 3 while that of ∆CostQA is 3. For simplicity (and
without loss of generality) we consider mn(4c + 1) and can ignore all the other
similar and lower degree terms. The reason we can do this is because those
terms grow comparatively slower than n3
/3, but the relationship between n3
/3
and mn(4c + 1) has to be clearly defined. Thus our simplified cost difference for
the QA method is ∆Cost∗
QA
∆Cost∗
QA = (4c + 1)mn (36)
We need to analyze the case where the quantum annealing method is more cost
effective, i.e
∆Cost∗
QA ∆CostNE (37)
or, mn(4c + 1) n3
/3 (38)
For this comparison, we need to define m in terms of n
m = λn (39)
Using Eqn(39) in Eqn(38), we get
λn2
(4c + 1)
n3
3
(40)
or, λ(4c + 1)
n
3
(41)
or, λ
n
3(4c + 1)
(42)
Combining Eqn(42) with the fact that m n, we get :
1 λ
n
3(4c + 1)
(43)
given
n
3(4c + 1)
1 (44)
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Thus, the Quantum Annealing method being faster than the Normal Equations
method is for when Eqn(33,43,44) holds true and is conditional on the conjectures
described in Eqn(27,28,33).
The above condition makes our speed advantage very limited to a small num-
ber of cases. However, it is important to note that the Normal Equations method
is known to be numerically unstable due to the AT
A operation involved [6]. The
quantum annealing approach does not seem to have such types of calculations
that would make it numerically unstable to the extent of Normal Equations
method (because of the condition number of A), assuming the precision of qubit
and coupler coefficients is not an issue. Thus for most practical cases, it competes
with the QR Factorization method rather than the Normal Equations method.
5 Accuracy analysis
Because quantum annealing is a physical metaheuristic, it is important to ana-
lyze the quality of the results obtained from it. The results from our experiments
are in Appendix B. We can define the probability of getting the global minimum
configuration of qubits in the QUBO form by using Eqn(2,3)
P(q) =
1
Z′
e−F ′
(v,w)
(45)
where Z′
= exp
X
{qa}
X
a
vaqa +
X
ab
wabqaqb
(46)
Which means that the set of solutions corresponding to the global minimum Q̂
have the highest probability of all the possible solution states. A problem arises
when we need to use more qubits for better precision. This would mean that the
set of approximate solutions Q′
, would also increase as a result. The net result
would be that
P
q̂∈Q̂ P(q̂)
P
q′∈Q′ P(q′
), which means that as the number of
qubits used for precision increases, it would be harder to get the best solution
directly from the machine. But like discussed in Section 4.2, if the conjecture
for a polynomial time post-processing technique with degree 3 holds true, we
should be able to get the best possible answer, in a competitive amount of time,
by using the results of a quantum annealer.
Another area of potential problems is the fact that quantum annealing hap-
pens on the actual physical qubits and its connectivity graph (see Appendix A
for more information). This means that the energy landscape for the physical
qubit graph is bigger than the one for the logical qubit graph. This problem
should be alleviated to a degree when and if the next generation of quantum
annealers have a more dense connectivity between their physical qubits.
6 Discussion and Future Work
Based on our theoretical and experimental results (see Appendix B), we can
see that there are potential advantages as well as drawbacks to this approach.
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Our work outlines the need of a polynomial time post-processing technique for
convex problems (with degree 3),only then will this approach have any runtime
advantage. Whether such a post-processing technique exists is an interesting
open research problem. But based on our work, we can comment on few areas
where quantum annealing may have a potential advantage. We have affirmed
the conjecture that machines like the D-wave find good solutions (that may not
be optimal) in a small amount of time [16] (Appendix B).
It may be useful to use quantum annealing for least squares-like problems,
i.e. problems that require us to minimize kAx − bk, but are time constrained in
nature. Two such problems are: (i) The Sparse Approximate Inverse [11] (SPAI)
type preconditioners used in solving linear equations and (ii) the Anderson ac-
celeration method for iterative fixed point methods [21]. Both of these methods
require approximate least squares solutions, but under time constraints. It would
be interesting to see if quantum annealing can be potentially useful there.
Another area of work could be to use quantum annealing within the latest
iterative techniques for least squares approximation itself. Sketch based tech-
niques like the Hessian sketch by Pilanci and Wainwright [18] may be able to
use quantum annealing as a subroutine.
Finally, just like O’Malley and Vesselinov mentioned in their papers [15,16],
quantum annealing also has potential in specific areas like the Binary [20] and
box-constrained integer least squares [5] where classical methods struggle.
7 Concluding Remarks
In this paper, we did an in-depth theoretical analysis of the quantum annealing
approach to solve linear least squares problems. We proposed a one’s complement
and two’s complement representation of the variables in qubits. We then showed
that the actual annealing time does not depend on the number of rows of the
matrix, just the number of columns/variables and number of qubits required to
represent them. We outlined conditions for which quantum annealing will have
a speed advantage over the prominent classical methods to find least squares.
An accuracy analysis shows how as precision bits are added, it is harder to get
the ’best’ least square answer, unless any post-processing is applied. Finally, we
outline possible areas of interesting research work that may hold promise.
Acknowledgement The authors would like to thank Daniel O’Malley from
LANL for his feedback. A special thanks to John Dorband, whose suggestions
inspired the development the one’s/two’s complement encoding. Finally, the au-
thors would like to thank Milton Halem of UMBC and D-wave Systems for
providing access to their machines.
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Appendix A The D-wave 2000Q
The D-wave 2000Q is a quantum annealer by D-wave Systems. At the time of
writing, it is the only commercially available quantum annealer in the market.
The 2048 qubits of its chip are connected in what is called a chimera graph. As
represented in Figure 1, a group of 8 qubits are grouped together in a cell in
a bipartite manner. Each cell is connected to the cell below and the cell across
as described in the figure. The chimera graph of this machine has 16 by 16
arrangement of cells, making it 2048 qubits.
We can see that the qubit connectivity is rather sparse. Here, we introduce
the concept of logical qubits and physical qubits. Physical qubits are the ones on
the machine connected in the chimera graph and the logical qubits are the qubits
that describe the nature of our application problem, which may have a different
connectivity graph. Thus, in order to run a problem on the D-wave, the logical
qubit graph (in the ising model) is mapped or embedded on to the chimera graph
by employing more than one physical qubit to represent one logical qubit. This
is called qubit chaining.This is done by using particular penalties and rewards on
top of the coefficients so that qubits of a chain that behave well (if one of them is
+1 then all should be +1 and vice versa) are rewarded and are penalized if they
don’t. After a problem has been embedded onto the physical qubits, the actual
Fig. 1. Subsection of the Chimera Graph of the D-wave 2000Q
annealing process happens. Each run of the machine (called an anneal cycle)
takes a fixed amount of time to execute that can be set between 1µs to 2000µs
for the D-wave 2000Q. Because a quantum annealer is a probabilistic machine,
we need to have a number of runs and tally up the results. We then take the
result that is able to minimize the objective function the most, unembed it back
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to the logical qubit graph. The final configuration of the logical qubits is our
answer.
For the D-wave 2000Q, the value that can be given to the coefficients is actu-
ally bounded as ha ∈ [−2, 2] and Jab ∈ [−1, 1]. The precision of the coefficient is
also low, the community usually works in the range of 4 to 5 bits, but the actual
precision is somewhere about 9 bits[8]. From a programmer’s perspective, the
API subroutines takes care of any arbitary floating point number by normaliz-
ing it down to the ha and Jab bounds, within the above mentioned precision of
course.
Appendix B Experiments on the D-wave 2000Q
Here we shall test the D-wave 2000Q for some Linear Least squares problems
and compare the results with the classical solution in terms of accuracy. Due
to the limited size of the current machine, our experiments use small datasets
and therefore, are not able to provide a runtime advantage. The main aim is
to assess the quality of the solutions that are returned by the D-wave without
post-processing. Our language of choice is MATLABTM
.
Experiment 1 Our first experiment compares the effectiveness of the solution
obtained classically against the solution obtained by a D-wave machine. For
the D-wave implementation, we use both types of encoding discussed in this
paper: the basic encoding given in Eqn(16) and the ones’ complement encoding
given in Eqn(17,18). The reason we use one’s complement over two’s complement
is because of the limited precision for the coefficients available on the current
generation of D-wave hardware. As a standard practice[15], when it comes to the
D-wave machine, we are limiting the radix-2 approximation of each variable in
x to just 4 bits. Which means that we are limited to a vector x with a length of
8 due to the basic encoding technique (which would require 64 fully connected
logical qubits). We use the following code to generate the matrix A,b and x.
rng(i)
A = rand(100,8)
A = round(A,3)
b = rand(100,1)
b = round(b,3)
x = Ab
We do this for the range {i ∈ Z|4 ≤ i ≤ 7} to generate 4 sets of A,b and their least
squares solution x. Because our primary aim is to see how well can the D-wave do
given the current limitations, we first analyze the classical solutions obtained to
see what contiguous powers of two can best capture the actual classical solution.
We find that the absolute value of most variables in the classical solution lies
between 2−2
and 2−5
. Thus we use Θ = {2−2
, 2−3
, 2−4
, 2−5
}.
For testing purposes, we use an anneal time of 50µs and 10000 samples for
each problem. We can probably use a lower anneal time, but our choice of anneal
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time is aimed at providing a conclusive look at the quality of solutions returned
by the D-wave while being still relatively low (the anneal time can go all the
way up to 2ms on the D-wave 2000Q). The Minimize energy technique is used
to resolve broken chains. We run the find embedding subroutine of the D-wave
API 30 times and select the smallest embedding.
– Basic encoding: physical qubits=1597,max qubit chain length=32
– One’s complement: physical qubits=612,max qubit chain length=20
Table 2. Experiment 1 (x has 8 variables)
Table No. Rng Seed
Value of kAx − bk2
Classical Solution D-wave (basic) D-wave (1’s comp)
1 4 2.9873 2.9938 3.0014
2 5 2.9707 2.9751 2.9931
3 6 2.8 2.8054 2.8558
4 7 2.8528 2.8595 2.8887
In the results, we can see that the D-wave 2000Q can’t arrive at the least square
answer of the classical method’s solution. Part of that can be explained by the
limited amount of numbers that can be represented using 4 bits. We also see
that using the basic encoding format, we can get a more effective answer than
when the one’s complement encoding is used. This can be attributed to the fact
that in the basic encoding, a lot of the numbers within the 4 bit range can be
represented in more than one way (because we have separate qubits for positive
and negative bits). Which essentially means that the energy landscape of the
basic encoding contains a lot of local and potentially global minimum states, all
because of the redundancy in representation.The one’s complement encoding is
more compact and we can see that its energy landscape would have far fewer local
minimas (and only one global minimum in most cases of linear least squares).
But it does affirm the conjecture that the D-wave is able to find fast solutions
that are good, but may not be optimal[16].
Experiment 2 For our second experiment, we generate A ∈ R100×12
, x ∈ R12×1
and b ∈ R100×1
to compare classical solutions with one’s complement encoded
results (the basic encoding can’t do an x vector of length above 8). The data is
created in the same way as the previous experiment with the x vector of length
12 instead of 8. All the other parameters are kept the same. The best embedding
we got (after 30 runs of find embedding subroutine) has a total number of 1357
physical qubits with a 30 qubit max chain length.
We see similar results for this experiment like the one before it. But fur-
ther experimental research needs to be done. Like mentioned in O’Malley and
Vesselinov’s work, we are limited by a lot of factors, some of them being
1. Low precision for the coefficient values of vj and wjk
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Table 3. Experiment 2 (x has 12 variables)
Table No. Rng Seed
Value of kAx − bk2
Classical Solution D-wave (1’s comp)
1 4 2.5366 2.5719
2 5 2.6307 2.6773
3 6 2.7942 2.8096
4 7 2.9325 2.945
2. Sparseness of the physical qubit graph
3. Noise in the system
We hope as the technology matures and other companies come into the market,
some of these issues would get alleviated. The good news is that we can use post-
processing techniques like the ones by Dorband[9,8] to improve the solution and
increase the precision.