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PennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations

12 November 2018
V. Bergholm
J. Izaac
Maria Schuld
C. Gogolin
Shahnawaz Ahmed
Vishnu Ajith
M. S. Alam
Guillermo Alonso-Linaje
B. AkashNarayanan
A. Asadi
J. M. Arrazola
Utkarsh Azad
S. Banning
Carsten Blank
T. Bromley
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Abstract

PennyLane is a Python 3 software framework for optimization and machine learning of quantum and hybrid quantum-classical computations. The library provides a unified architecture for near-term quantum computing devices, supporting both qubit and continuous-variable paradigms. PennyLane's core feature is the ability to compute gradients of variational quantum circuits in a way that is compatible with classical techniques such as backpropagation. PennyLane thus extends the automatic differentiation algorithms common in optimization and machine learning to include quantum and hybrid computations. A plugin system makes the framework compatible with any gate-based quantum simulator or hardware. We provide plugins for Strawberry Fields, Rigetti Forest, Qiskit, Cirq, and ProjectQ, allowing PennyLane optimizations to be run on publicly accessible quantum devices provided by Rigetti and IBM Q. On the classical front, PennyLane interfaces with accelerated machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and autograd. PennyLane can be used for the optimization of variational quantum eigensolvers, quantum approximate optimization, quantum machine learning models, and many other applications.

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