Hi, I have a hybrid quantum-classical machine learning program which I am running on IBMQ backends using the qiskit-pennylane plugin. For each classical data-point, I need to run the quantum circuit with classical post processing of the expectation values. When running on IBMQ backends, the execution of each circuit corresponding to each data-point is submitted as a separate job. I was wondering if it is possible to use Qiskit Runtime Session with Pennylane circuit so that the whole program is submitted to IBMQ backend as a single job, and I do not have to wait in queue.
I am initializing “dev” in the following way-
dev = qml.device("qiskit.ibmq.circuit_runner", wires=n_qubits, backend="ibmq_quito", ibmqx_token=token)
Before running the loop on data points, I add-
with Session(service = service, backend = "ibmq_quito"):
but this does not work as the jobs are still being submitted as separate jobs. Is there a way to submit it as a single job?
Great question. This sounds a little strange to me… I’m going to confirm a couple things with some of our development team and I will get back to you as soon as I can
Hi @isaacdevlugt this function does not seem to be useful. I have only one circuit which needs to run once for each data point. For example, a variational quantum circuit is trained for a model, and now I predict each data-point from the test set. I want that for the whole test dataset, the IBMQ device will be reserved for me (which you can achieve using Qiskit Runtime session), and I do not have to wait in queue for every data point.
I cannot use Qiskit runtime service because my network is a mixture of classical and quantum layers, where the quantum layer is defined as a pytorch nn.Module.
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