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I am using qiskit's VQC to build a classifier. Dimensionality of the data is 2 and number of classes are 4. The feature map I used is ZZFeatureMap and ansatz is the RealAplitudes. Then entanglement and reps are "full" and 2 respectively for both feature map and ansatz. Optimizer used is 'COBYLA'. Please find below the respective code.

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When I try to fit the classifier, it is not optimising the weights and the loss is always "nan". It is stopping after 7 iterations.

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What am I doing wrong and how can I train a classifier using qiskit's VQC ? Thank you!

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  • $\begingroup$ Try to change your optimizer and see if that changes anything, $\endgroup$
    – KAJ226
    Oct 19, 2021 at 19:49
  • $\begingroup$ I did, I tried with ADAM and AMSGRAD too. I can't be help but think I am missing something basic somewhere. $\endgroup$
    – Harsha Pamidipalli
    Oct 21, 2021 at 1:24
  • $\begingroup$ I strongly believe it is to do with the number of classes the dataset has. Upon trying a tutorial of qiskit on this topic, everything worked well until I changed the dataset to include more classes. I have elaborated on this here: quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/21661/… $\endgroup$
    – Harsha Pamidipalli
    Oct 24, 2021 at 18:45

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The issue was with 0.3.0 version of qiskit_machine_learning library. Fix is to install 0.4.0 version. More details about the issue and how to install 0.4.0 is in this answer.

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