Source code for pennylane.devices.execution_config

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"""
Contains the :class:`ExecutionConfig` data class.
"""
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from typing import Optional, Union

from pennylane.workflow import SUPPORTED_INTERFACES


@dataclass
class MCMConfig:
    """A class to store mid-circuit measurement configurations."""

    mcm_method: Optional[str] = None
    """Which mid-circuit measurement strategy to use. Use ``deferred`` for the deferred
    measurements principle and "one-shot" if using finite shots to execute the circuit
    for each shot separately. If not specified, the device will decide which method to
    use."""

    postselect_mode: Optional[str] = None
    """Configuration for handling shots with mid-circuit measurement postselection. If
    ``"hw-like"``, invalid shots will be discarded and only results for valid shots will
    be returned. If ``"fill-shots"``, results corresponding to the original number of
    shots will be returned. If not specified, the device will decide which mode to use."""

    def __post_init__(self):
        """
        Validate the configured mid-circuit measurement options.

        Note that this hook is automatically called after init via the dataclass integration.
        """
        if self.mcm_method not in (
            "deferred",
            "one-shot",
            "single-branch-statistics",
            "tree-traversal",
            None,
        ):
            raise ValueError(f"Invalid mid-circuit measurements method '{self.mcm_method}'.")
        if self.postselect_mode not in ("hw-like", "fill-shots", "pad-invalid-samples", None):
            raise ValueError(f"Invalid postselection mode '{self.postselect_mode}'.")


# pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attributes
@dataclass
class ExecutionConfig:
    """
    A class to configure the execution of a quantum circuit on a device.

    See the Attributes section to learn more about the various configurable options.
    """

    grad_on_execution: Optional[bool] = None
    """Whether or not to compute the gradient at the same time as the execution.

    If ``None``, then the device or execution pipeline can decide which one is most efficient for the situation.
    """

    use_device_gradient: Optional[bool] = None
    """Whether or not to compute the gradient on the device.

    ``None`` indicates to use the device if possible, but to fall back to pennylane behaviour if it isn't.

    True indicates a request to either use the device gradient or fail.
    """

    use_device_jacobian_product: Optional[bool] = None
    """Whether or not to use the device provided vjp or jvp to compute gradients.

    ``None`` indicates to use the device if possible, but to fall back to the device Jacobian
    or PennyLane behaviour if it isn't.

    ``True`` indicates to either use the device Jacobian products or fail.
    """

    gradient_method: Optional[str] = None
    """The method used to compute the gradient of the quantum circuit being executed"""

    gradient_keyword_arguments: Optional[dict] = None
    """Arguments used to control a gradient transform"""

    device_options: Optional[dict] = None
    """Various options for the device executing a quantum circuit"""

    interface: Optional[str] = None
    """The machine learning framework to use"""

    derivative_order: int = 1
    """The derivative order to compute while evaluating a gradient"""

    mcm_config: Union[MCMConfig, dict] = field(default_factory=MCMConfig)
    """Configuration options for handling mid-circuit measurements"""

    def __post_init__(self):
        """
        Validate the configured execution options.

        Note that this hook is automatically called after init via the dataclass integration.
        """
        if self.interface not in SUPPORTED_INTERFACES:
            raise ValueError(
                f"Unknown interface. interface must be in {SUPPORTED_INTERFACES}, got {self.interface} instead."
            )

        if self.grad_on_execution not in {True, False, None}:
            raise ValueError(
                f"grad_on_execution must be True, False, or None. Got {self.grad_on_execution} instead."
            )

        if self.device_options is None:
            self.device_options = {}

        if self.gradient_keyword_arguments is None:
            self.gradient_keyword_arguments = {}

        if isinstance(self.mcm_config, dict):
            self.mcm_config = MCMConfig(**self.mcm_config)
        elif not isinstance(self.mcm_config, MCMConfig):
            raise ValueError(f"Got invalid type {type(self.mcm_config)} for 'mcm_config'")


DefaultExecutionConfig = ExecutionConfig()

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