Credit: Image by Ruslan Shaydulin, Ilya Safro and Jeffrey Larson. Multistart methods for quantum approximate optimization. To appear in: Proceedings of the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference. 2019. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08768.
A multimodal landscape arising in the quantum approximation optimization algorithm. Dots show points evaluated by a multistart optimizer, which is better suited for finding good optima for this problem than classical methods. Developing specialized methods for such problems will be a part of FAR-QC.