Patents by Inventor Hartmut Neven

Hartmut Neven has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240411427
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining a triggering event of a user, selecting media relevant to the triggering event, and providing the selected media to the user. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for determining a past event of the user that is indicative of past interaction of the user with one or more past entities and the triggering event may be determined to be associated with the past event. The media selected to provide to the user may contain media that includes the one or more past entities associated with the past event and the media may be provided to the user in response to the triggering event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Kulick, Aparna Chennapragada, Albert Segars, Hartmut Neven, Arcot J. Preetham
  • Publication number: 20240412086
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for constructing and programming quantum hardware for machine learning processes. A Quantum Statistic Machine (QSM) is described, consisting of three distinct classes of strongly interacting degrees of freedom including visible, hidden and control quantum subspaces or subsystems. The QSM is defined with a programmable non-equilibrium ergodic open quantum Markov chain with a unique attracting steady state in the space of density operators. The solution of an information processing task, such as a statistical inference or optimization task, can be encoded into the quantum statistics of an attracting steady state, where quantum inference is performed by minimizing the energy of a real or fictitious quantum Hamiltonian. The couplings of the QSM between the visible and hidden nodes may be trained to solve hard optimization or inference tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Masoud Mohseni, Hartmut Neven
  • Patent number: 12165008
    Abstract: Among other things, an apparatus comprises quantum units; and couplers among the quantum units. Each coupler is configured to couple a pair of quantum units according to a quantum Hamiltonian characterizing the quantum units and the couplers. The quantum Hamiltonian includes quantum annealer Hamiltonian and a quantum governor Hamiltonian. The quantum annealer Hamiltonian includes information bearing degrees of freedom. The quantum governor Hamiltonian includes non-information bearing degrees of freedom that are engineered to steer the dissipative dynamics of information bearing degrees of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Masoud Mohseni, Hartmut Neven
  • Patent number: 12159206
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for totally corrective boosting with cardinality penalization are described. One of the methods includes obtaining initialization data identifying training examples, a dictionary of weak classifiers, and an active weak classifier matrix. Iterations of a totally corrective boosting with cardinality penalization process are performed, wherein each iteration performs operations comprising selecting a weak classifier from the dictionary of weak classifiers that most violates a constraint of a dual of the primal problem. The selected weak classifier is included in the active weak classifier matrix. The primal problem is optimized, and a discrete weight vector is determined. Weak classifiers are identified from the active weak classifier matrix with respective discrete weights greater than a threshold. The regularized risk is optimized, and a continuous weight vector is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vasil S. Denchev, Hartmut Neven
  • Publication number: 20240394530
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for designing a quantum control trajectory for implementing a quantum gate using quantum hardware. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of representing the quantum gate as a sequence of control actions and applying a reinforcement learning model to iteratively adjust each control action in the sequence of control actions to determine a quantum control trajectory that implements the quantum gate and reduces leakage, infidelity and total runtime of the quantum gate to improve its robustness of performance against control noise during the iterative adjustments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yuezhen Niu, Hartmut Neven, Vadim Smelyanskiy, Sergio Boixo Castrillo
  • Patent number: 12131226
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for implementing a unitary quantum gate on one or more qubits. In one aspect, a method includes the actions designing a control pulse for the unitary quantum gate, comprising: defining a universal quantum control cost function, wherein the control cost function comprises a qubit leakage penalty term representing i) coherent qubit leakage, and ii) incoherent qubit leakage across all frequency components during a time dependent Hamiltonian evolution that realizes the unitary quantum gate; adjusting parameters of the time dependent Hamiltonian evolution to vary a control cost according to the control cost function such that leakage errors are reduced; generating the control pulse using the adjusted parameters; and applying the control pulse to the one or more qubits to implement the unitary quantum gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yuezhen Niu, Hartmut Neven, Vadim Smelyanskiy, Sergio Boixo Castrillo
  • Publication number: 20240303502
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for learning a target quantum state. In one aspect, a method for training a quantum generative adversarial network (QGAN) to learn a target quantum state includes iteratively adjusting parameters of the QGAN until a value of a QGAN loss function converges, wherein each iteration comprises: performing an entangling operation on a discriminator network input of a discriminator network in the QGAN to measure a fidelity of the discriminator network input, wherein the discriminator network input comprises the target quantum state and a first quantum state output from a generator network in the QGAN, wherein the first quantum state approximates the target quantum state; and performing a minimax optimization of the QGAN loss function to update the QGAN parameters, wherein the QGAN loss function is dependent on the measured fidelity of the discriminator network input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Yuezhen Niu, Hartmut Neven, Vadim Smelyanskiy, Sergio Boixo Castrillo
  • Patent number: 12089509
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first group of superconducting cavities and a second group of superconducting cavities, each of which is configured to receive multiple photons. The apparatus includes couplers, where each coupler couples one superconducting cavity from the first group with one cavity from the second group such that the photons in the coupled superconducting cavities interact. A first superconducting cavity of the first group is connected to a second superconducting cavity of the second group, such that photons of the first and second superconducting cavities are shared by each of the first and second superconducting cavities. The first superconducting cavity is coupled to at least one other superconducting cavity of the first group to which the second superconducting cavities are coupled, and the second superconducting cavity is coupled to at least one other superconducting cavity of the second group to which the first superconducting cavities are coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Masoud Mohseni, Hartmut Neven
  • Patent number: 12086091
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a substrate, a classical computing processor formed on the substrate, a quantum computing processor formed on the substrate, and one or more coupling components between the classical computing processor and the quantum computing processor, the one or more coupling components being formed on the substrate and being configured to allow data exchange between the classical computing processor and the quantum computing processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Masoud Mohseni, Hartmut Neven
  • Publication number: 20240296359
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to classification methods that can be implemented on quantum computing systems. According to a first aspect, this specification describes a method for training a classifier implemented on a quantum computer, the method comprising: preparing a plurality of qubits in an input state with a known classification, said plurality of qubits comprising one or more readout qubits; applying one or more parameterised quantum gates to the plurality of qubits to transform the input state to an output state; determining, using a readout state of the one or more readout qubits in the output state, a predicted classification of the input state; comparing the predicted classification with the known classification; and updating one or more parameters of the parameterised quantum gates in dependence on the comparison of the predicted classification with the known classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Edward Henry Farhi, Hartmut Neven
  • Publication number: 20240289658
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for enhancing simulated annealing with quantum fluctuations. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining an input state; performing simulated annealing on the input state with a temperature reduction schedule until a decrease in energy is below a first minimum value; terminating the simulated annealing in response to determining that the decrease in energy is below the first minimum level; outputting a first evolved state and first temperature value; reducing the temperature to a minimum temperature value; performing quantum annealing on the first evolved state with a transversal field increase schedule until a completion of a second event occurs; terminating the quantum annealing in response to determining that a completion of the second event has occurred; outputting a second evolved state as a subsequent input state for the simulated annealing, and determining that the completion of the first event has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventor: Hartmut NEVEN
  • Patent number: 12067215
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining a triggering event of a user, selecting media relevant to the triggering event, and providing the selected media to the user. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for determining a past event of the user that is indicative of past interaction of the user with one or more past entities and the triggering event may be determined to be associated with the past event. The media selected to provide to the user may contain media that includes the one or more past entities associated with the past event and the media may be provided to the user in response to the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Kulick, Aparna Chennapragada, Albert Segars, Hartmut Neven, Arcot J. Preetham
  • Publication number: 20240193449
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for training quantum evolutions using sub-logical controls. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of accessing quantum hardware, wherein the quantum hardware includes a quantum system comprising one or more multi-level quantum subsystems; one or more control devices that operate on the one or more multi-level quantum subsystems according to one or more respective control parameters that relate to a parameter of a physical environment in which the multi-level quantum subsystems are located; initializing the quantum system in an initial quantum state, wherein an initial set of control parameters form a parameterization that defines the initial quantum state; obtaining one or more quantum system observables and one or more target quantum states; and iteratively training until an occurrence of a completion event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan BABBUSH, Hartmut NEVEN
  • Patent number: 12001918
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to classification methods that can be implemented on quantum computing systems. According to a first aspect, this specification describes a method for training a classifier implemented on a quantum computer, the method comprising: preparing a plurality of qubits in an input state with a known classification, said plurality of qubits comprising one or more readout qubits; applying one or more parameterised quantum gates to the plurality of qubits to transform the input state to an output state; determining, using a readout state of the one or more readout qubits in the output state, a predicted classification of the input state; comparing the predicted classification with the known classification; and updating one or more parameters of the parameterised quantum gates in dependence on the comparison of the predicted classification with the known classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Edward Henry Farhi, Hartmut Neven
  • Publication number: 20240104135
    Abstract: A system and method of identifying objects is provided. In one aspect, the system and method includes a hand-held device with a display, camera and processor. As the camera captures images and displays them on the display, the processor compares the information retrieved in connection with one image with information retrieved in connection with subsequent images. The processor uses the result of such comparison to determine the object that is likely to be of greatest interest to the user. The display simultaneously displays the images the images as they are captured, the location of the object in an image, and information retrieved for the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: David Petrou, Matthew Bridges, Shailesh Nalawadi, Hartwig Adam, Matthew R. Casey, Hartmut Neven, Andrew Harp
  • Patent number: 11928586
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for designing a quantum control trajectory for implementing a quantum gate using quantum hardware. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of representing the quantum gate as a sequence of control actions and applying a reinforcement learning model to iteratively adjust each control action in the sequence of control actions to determine a quantum control trajectory that implements the quantum gate and reduces leakage, infidelity and total runtime of the quantum gate to improve its robustness of performance against control noise during the iterative adjustments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yuezhen Niu, Hartmut Neven, Vadim Smelyanskiy, Sergio Boixo Castrillo
  • Publication number: 20240078456
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing quantum annealing using a quantum system. In one aspect, a method includes controlling the quantum system such that a total Hamiltonian characterizing the quantum system evolves from an initial quantum Hamiltonian to a problem quantum Hamiltonian, wherein controlling the quantum system comprises applying an inhomogeneous driving field to the quantum system to drive the quantum system across a quantum phase transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Masoud Mohseni, Hartmut Neven
  • Patent number: 11924334
    Abstract: A quantum neural network architecture. In one aspect, a quantum neural network trained to perform a machine learning task includes: an input quantum neural network layer comprising (i) multiple qubits prepared in an initial quantum state encoding a machine learning task data input, and (ii) a target qubit; a sequence of intermediate quantum neural network layers, each intermediate quantum neural network layer comprising multiple quantum logic gates that operate on the multiple qubits and target qubit; and an output quantum neural network layer comprising a measurement quantum gate that operates on the target qubit and provides as output data representing a solution to the machine learning task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hartmut Neven, Edward Henry Farhi
  • Patent number: 11900215
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for constructing and programming quantum hardware for machine learning processes. A Quantum Statistic Machine (QSM) is described, consisting of three distinct classes of strongly interacting degrees of freedom including visible, hidden and control quantum subspaces or subsystems. The QSM is defined with a programmable non-equilibrium ergodic open quantum Markov chain with a unique attracting steady state in the space of density operators. The solution of an information processing task, such as a statistical inference or optimization task, can be encoded into the quantum statistics of an attracting steady state, where quantum inference is performed by minimizing the energy of a real or fictitious quantum Hamiltonian. The couplings of the QSM between the visible and hidden nodes may be trained to solve hard optimization or inference tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Masoud Mohseni, Hartmut Neven
  • Patent number: 11900214
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for enhancing simulated annealing with quantum fluctuations. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining an input state; performing simulated annealing on the input state with a temperature reduction schedule until a decrease in energy is below a first minimum value; terminating the simulated annealing in response to determining that the decrease in energy is below the first minimum level; outputting a first evolved state and first temperature value; reducing the temperature to a minimum temperature value; performing quantum annealing on the first evolved state with a transversal field increase schedule until a completion of a second event occurs; terminating the quantum annealing in response to determining that a completion of the second event has occurred; outputting a second evolved state as a subsequent input state for the simulated annealing, and determining that the completion of the first event has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Hartmut Neven