In Qiskit, there are explicit transpile (where a circuit is transpiled to primitive gates) and backend.run (where the circuit is executed in either statevector simulation or real hardware) steps. What would be the equivalent in Cirq? In Cirq, you only have 1 API of simulator.simulate().
Note: I am executing my circuit multiple times under various parameters in a hybrid quantum-classical feedback loop algorithm. And so, using sweep is not possible.
transpile
andbackend.run
do in order to make the question self-contained. At minimum it should provide links, though these are discouraged since they can become dead reducing the future value of the post. As it stands, the post shifts the burden of figuring out what it is you're trying to do in cirq on the readers which further reduces its future value and your current chances of getting an answer. $\endgroup$