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Aug 2026
On Representation Smoothness for Robust Architecture Discovery of Variational Quantum Circuits
This work analyzes the effect of encoding discontinuities on diversity-driven discovery and introduces two representation refinements: a smooth, continuous mechanism for gate selection and a factorized representation that separates structural discovery from continuous parameter optimization.
Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Stein, Philipp Altmann et al.
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