QHyper: an integration library for hybrid quantum-classical optimization

Abstract

We propose the QHyper library, which is aimed at researchers working on computational experiments with a variety of quantum combinatorial optimization solvers. The library offers a simple and extensible interface for formulating combinatorial optimization problems, selecting and running solvers, and optimizing hyperparameters. The supported solver set includes variational gate-based algorithms, quantum annealers, and classical solutions. The solvers can be combined with provided local and global (hyper)optimizers. The main features of the library are its extensibility on different levels of use as well as a straightforward and flexible experiment configuration format presented in the paper.