Prior-Informed Adaptive Shifts for Sequential Minimal Optimization in Variational Quantum Eigensolvers

arXiv:2608.21616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential minimal optimization methods, such as the Rotosolve and the Nakanishi-Fujii-Todo algorithm (NFT), are widely used for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQEs). These methods optimize one parameter direction at a time, requiring measurements