Qiskit

A set of interoperable components for Qiskit Aqua’s optimizer package are available in skquant.interop.qiskit. These classes derive from Qiskit’s Optimizer class and implement the same interface, such that the skquant optimmizers can be used as drop-in replacements in Qiskit-based codes.

Caution

The optimizer classes in Qiskit’s Optimizer package do not follow proper conventions themselves. In writing the interop component classes, an attempt was made to stick to the most prevalent conventions present as of Aqua version 0.7.1.

Example usage:

from skquant.interop.qiskit import SnobFit

x0 = np.array([0.5, 0.5])
bounds = np.array([[-1, 1], [-1, 1]], dtype=float)

optimizer = SnobFit(maxfun=40, maxmp=len(x0)+6)

ret = optimizer.optimize(num_vars=len(x0),
                         objective_function=your_objective,
                         variable_bounds=bounds,
                         initial_point=x0)

Available component classes are ImFil, SnobFit, Nomad, and PyBobyqa.