# This code is part of a Qiskit project. # # (C) Copyright IBM 2022, 2023. # # This code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. You may # obtain a copy of this license in the LICENSE.txt file in the root directory # of this source tree or at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. # # Any modifications or derivative works of this code must retain this # copyright notice, and modified files need to carry a notice indicating # that they have been altered from the originals. """Validate an initial point.""" from __future__ import annotations import numpy as np from qiskit.circuit import QuantumCircuit from qiskit_algorithms.utils.algorithm_globals import algorithm_globals def validate_initial_point(point: np.ndarray | None | None, circuit: QuantumCircuit) -> np.ndarray: r""" Validate a choice of initial point against a choice of circuit. If no point is provided, a random point will be generated within certain parameter bounds. It will first look to the circuit for these bounds. If the circuit does not specify bounds, bounds of :math:`-2\pi`, :math:`2\pi` will be used. Args: point: An initial point. circuit: A parameterized quantum circuit. Returns: A validated initial point. Raises: ValueError: If the dimension of the initial point does not match the number of circuit parameters. """ expected_size = circuit.num_parameters if point is None: # get bounds if circuit has them set, otherwise use [-2pi, 2pi] for each parameter bounds = getattr(circuit, "parameter_bounds", None) if bounds is None: bounds = [(-2 * np.pi, 2 * np.pi)] * expected_size # replace all Nones by [-2pi, 2pi] lower_bounds = [] upper_bounds = [] for lower, upper in bounds: lower_bounds.append(lower if lower is not None else -2 * np.pi) upper_bounds.append(upper if upper is not None else 2 * np.pi) # sample from within bounds point = algorithm_globals.random.uniform(lower_bounds, upper_bounds) elif len(point) != expected_size: raise ValueError( f"The dimension of the initial point ({len(point)}) does not match the " f"number of parameters in the circuit ({expected_size})." ) return point