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PAC global optimization for VQE in low-curvature geometric regimes

arXiv
Authors: Benjamin Asch

Year

2025

Paper ID

16969

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Preprint

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We give noise-robust, Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) guarantees of global varepsilon-optimality for the Variational Quantum Eigensolver under explicit geometric conditions. For periodic ansatzes with bounded generators - yielding a globally Lipschitz cost landscape on a toroidal parameter space - we assume that the low-energy region containing the global minimum is a Morse--Bott submanifold whose normal Hessian has rank r = O\(log p\) for p parameters, and which satisfies polynomial fiber regularity with respect to coordinate-aligned, embedded flats. This low-curvature-dimensional structure serves as a model for regimes in which only a small number of directions control energy variation, and is consistent with mechanisms such as strong parameter tying together with locality in specific multiscale and tied shallow architectures. Under this assumption, the sample complexity required to find an varepsilon-optimal region with confidence 1-δ scales with the curvature dimension r rather than the ambient dimension p. With probability at least 1-δ, the algorithm outputs a region in which all points are varepsilon-optimal, and at least one lies within a bounded neighborhood of the global minimum. The resulting complexity is quasi-polynomial in p and varepsilon-1 and logarithmic in δ-1. This identifies a geometric regime in which high-probability global optimization remains feasible despite shot noise.

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