Alternating Layered Variational Quantum Circuits Can Be Classically Optimized Efficiently Using Classical Shadows. - Afrad Basheer; Yuan Feng 001; Christopher Ferrie; Sanjiang Li (AAAI, 2023)

Ansatz-Agnostic Exponential Resource Saving in Variational Quantum Algorithms Using Shallow Shadows. - Afrad Basheer; Yuan Feng 001; Christopher Ferrie; Sanjiang Li (IJCAI, 2024)

On the Trainability and Classical Simulability of Learning Matrix Product States Variationally. - Afrad Basheer; Yuan Feng 001; Christopher Ferrie; Sanjiang Li; Hakop Pashayan (AAAI, 2025)