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This article introduces qkabrine-automl, a Python framework designed to automate the joint optimization of circuit architecture, data encoding, and hyperparameters specifically within quantum machine learning workflows. By integrating trainability diagnostics like barren plateau monitoring directly into its search loop, it addresses critical NISQ deployment challenges that existing classical AutoML tools or primitive QML libraries fail to handle holistically. The work represents a significant step toward making competitive QML models more accessible by unifying the fragmented configuration space required for quantum-specific model development.
Qkabrine: A Joint Architecture, Encoding, and Hyperparameter Search Framework for Quantum Machine Learning
arXiv:2608.18152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building a quantum machine learning (QML) model competitive with a classical baseline currently requires a practitioner to separately choose a circuit architecture, a data-encoding scheme, a model paradigm (kernel versus variational), and a set of training hyperparameters, then verify after the fact that the chosen circuit is even trainable. Existing QML libraries provide the primitives for this but not the search, and existing classical AutoML libraries provide the search but not the quantum-specific search space or diagnostics. We present qkabrine-automl, a Python package that treats architecture, encoding, model type, and hyperparameters as a single, jointly searchable configuration space, evaluated through one consistent harness regardless of which of five search strategies proposed the candidate. The package integrates trainability diagnostics, a Data Quantum Fisher Information Metric (DQFIM) estimate and a gradientmagnitude barren-plateau monitor, directly into the evaluation loop as an optional prescreening step, alongside expressibility and entangling-capability characterization, a post-search circuitsurgery pass for NISQ deployment, and OpenQASM export. We position this contribution against recent AutoQML frameworks that already automate parts of the QML pipeline, and report a small, fully reproducible illustrative run rather than a benchmark claim.
Abstract:Building a quantum machine learning (QML) model competitive with a classical baseline currently requires a practitioner to separately choose a circuit architecture, a data-encoding scheme, a model paradigm (kernel versus variational), and a set of training hyperparameters, then verify after the fact that the chosen circuit is even trainable. Existing QML libraries provide the primitives for this but not the search, and existing classical AutoML libraries provide the search but not the quantum-specific search space or diagnostics. We present qkabrine-automl, a Python package that treats architecture, encoding, model type, and hyperparameters as a single, jointly searchable configuration space, evaluated through one consistent harness regardless of which of five search strategies proposed the candidate. The package integrates trainability diagnostics, a Data Quantum Fisher Information Metric (DQFIM) estimate and a gradientmagnitude barren-plateau monitor, directly into the evaluation loop as an optional prescreening step, alongside expressibility and entangling-capability characterization, a post-search circuitsurgery pass for NISQ deployment, and OpenQASM export. We position this contribution against recent AutoQML frameworks that already automate parts of the QML pipeline, and report a small, fully reproducible illustrative run rather than a benchmark claim.
arXiv:2608.18152 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2608.18152v1 [quant-ph] for this version)
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