Go to ICLR 2025 Conference homepageQuaDiM: A Conditional Diffusion Model For Quantum State Property Estimation
Quantum state property estimation (QPE) is a fundamental challenge in quantum many-body problems in physics and chemistry, involving the prediction of characteristics such as correlation and entanglement entropy through statistical analysis of quantum measurement data. Recent advances in deep learning have provided powerful solutions, predominantly using auto-regressive models. These models generally assume an intrinsic ordering among qubits, aiming to approximate the classical probability distribution through sequential training. However, unlike natural language, the entanglement structure of qubits lacks an inherent ordering, hurting the motivation of such models. In this paper, we introduce a novel, non-autoregressive generative model called \textbf{\model}, designed for \underline{\textbf{Qua}}ntum state property estimation using \underline{\textbf{Di}}ffusion \underline{\textbf{M}}odels. \model progressively denoises Gaussian noise into the distribution corresponding to the quantum state, encouraging equal, unbiased treatment of all qubits. \model learns to map physical variables to properties of the ground state of the parameterized Hamiltonian during offline training. Afterwards one can sample from the learned distribution conditioned on previously unseen physical variables to collect measurement records and employ post-processing to predict properties of unknown quantum states. We evaluate \model on large-scale QPE tasks using classically simulated data on the 1D anti-ferromagnetic Heisenberg model with the system size up to 100 qubits. Numerical results demonstrate that \model outperforms baseline models, particularly auto-regressive approaches, under conditions of limited measurement data during training and reduced sample complexity during inference.