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QAOA Parameter Transferability for Maximum Independent Set using Graph Attention Networks

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arxiv 2504.21135 v1 pith:JGTLFRP2 submitted 2025-04-29 quant-ph cs.LG

QAOA Parameter Transferability for Maximum Independent Set using Graph Attention Networks

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keywords qaoagraphsoptimizationparameterparametersproblemsquantumtransfer
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The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is one of the promising variational approaches of quantum computing to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In QAOA, variational parameters need to be optimized by solving a series of nonlinear, nonconvex optimization programs. In this work, we propose a QAOA parameter transfer scheme using Graph Attention Networks (GAT) to solve Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problems. We prepare optimized parameters for graphs of 12 and 14 vertices and use GATs to transfer their parameters to larger graphs. Additionally, we design a hybrid distributed resource-aware algorithm for MIS (HyDRA-MIS), which decomposes large problems into smaller ones that can fit onto noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. We integrate our GAT-based parameter transfer approach to HyDRA-MIS and demonstrate competitive results compared to KaMIS, a state-of-the-art classical MIS solver, on graphs with several thousands vertices.

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