Merge pull request #263 from manoelmarques/stable-0.4.0

New Release 0.4.0

Author: manoelmarques

.gitignore

@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ docs/*.rst
 !docs/aqua_tutorials.rst
 !docs/aqua_finance.rst
 !docs/qiskit_aqua_chemistry.rst
+!docs/random_distributions.rst
+!docs/uncertainty_problems.rst
+!docs/multiclass_extensions.rst
+!docs/release_history.rst
 
 # PyBuilder
 target/

.travis.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Copyright 2018, IBM.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 found in
+# the LICENSE.txt file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+notifications:
+    on_success: change
+    on_failure: always
+
+cache: pip
+os: linux
+dist: trusty
+
+language: python
+python:
+  - "3.6"
+
+stage_dependencies: &stage_dependencies
+  # Install Dependencies
+  # The env. variable MASTER_BRANCH_DEPENDENCIES forces dependencies used from master
+  env:
+    - >
+      MASTER_BRANCH_DEPENDENCIES=true
+      CMAKE_FLAGS="-D CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-5 -D ENABLE_TARGETS_QA=False -D WHEEL_TAG=-pmanylinux1_x86_64 -D STATIC_LINKING=True"
+  addons:
+    apt:
+        sources:
+            - ubuntu-toolchain-r-test
+        packages:
+            - liblapack-dev
+            - libblas-dev
+            - g++-5
+  before_install:
+    # download Qiskit Terra master and unzip it only if forced from master or not stable branch, otherwise use the pypi version
+    - |
+      if [ ${MASTER_BRANCH_DEPENDENCIES} = "true" ] || [ ${TRAVIS_BRANCH} != "stable" ]; then
+        wget https://codeload.github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-terra/zip/master -O /tmp/qiskit-terra.zip
+        unzip /tmp/qiskit-terra.zip -d /tmp/
+        # Install Qiskit Terra requirements.
+        pip install -U -r /tmp/qiskit-terra-master/requirements.txt
+        pip install -U -r /tmp/qiskit-terra-master/requirements-dev.txt
+        # Create the basic cmake structure, setting out/ as the default dir.
+        cd /tmp/qiskit-terra-master
+        mkdir out && cd out && cmake $CMAKE_FLAGS ..
+        # Compile the executables
+        make
+        # Install local Qiskit Terra
+        pip install -e /tmp/qiskit-terra-master
+        # back to current repo directory
+        cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR
+      fi
+  install:
+    # install Aqua and dev requirements
+    - pip install -e $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR
+    - pip install -U -r requirements-dev.txt
+
+# Define the order of the stages.
+stages:
+  - test first half
+  - test second half
+
+jobs:
+  include:
+    - stage: test first half
+      <<: *stage_dependencies
+      script:
+        - python test/customtests.py 0 -end 21
+
+    - stage: test second half
+      <<: *stage_dependencies
+      script:
+        - python test/customtests.py 21

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -18,6 +18,43 @@ The format is based on `Keep a Changelog`_.
 `UNRELEASED`_
 =============
 
+`0.4.0`_ - 2018-12-19
+=====================
+
+Added
+-----
+
+- Compatibility with Terra 0.7
+- Compatibility with Aer 0.1
+- Programmatic APIs for algorithms and components -- each component can now be instantiated and initialized via a single (non-emptY) constructot call
+- ``QuantumInstance`` API for algorithm/backend decoupling -- ``QuantumInstance`` encapsulates a backend and its settings
+- Updated documentation and Jupyter Notebooks illustrating the new programmatic APIs
+- Transparent parallelization for gradient-based optimizers
+- Multiple-Controlled-NOT (cnx) operation
+- Pluggable algorithmic component ``RandomDistribution``
+- Concrete implementations of ``RandomDistribution``: ``BernoulliDistribution``, ``LogNormalDistribution``, 
+  ``MultivariateDistribution``, ``MultivariateNormalDistribution``, ``MultivariateUniformDistribution``, ``NormalDistribution``,
+  ``UniformDistribution``, and ``UnivariateDistribution``
+- Pluggable algorithmic component:
+- Concrete implementations of ``UncertaintyProblem``: ``FixedIncomeExpectedValue``, ``EuropeanCallExpectedValue``, and 
+  ``EuropeanCallDelta``
+- Amplitude Estimation algorithm
+- Qiskit Optimization: New Ising models for optimization problems exact cover, set packing, vertex cover, clique, and graph partition
+- Qiskit AI:
+   - New feature maps extending the ``FeatureMap`` pluggable interface: ``PauliExpansion`` and ``PauliZExpansion``
+   - Training model serialization/deserialization mechanism
+- Qiskit Finance:
+   - Amplitude estimation for Bernoulli random variable: illustration of amplitude estimation on a single qubit problem
+   - Loading of multiple univariate and multivariate random distributions
+   - European call option: expected value and delta (using univariate distributions)
+   - Fixed income asset pricing: expected value (using multivariate distributions)
+   
+Removed
+-------
+
+- ``HartreeFock`` component of pluggable type ``InitialState` moved to Qiskit Chemistry
+- ``UCCSD`` component of pluggable type ``VariationalForm`` moved to Qiskit Chemistry
+
 `0.3.1`_ - 2018-11-29
 =====================
 
@@ -41,7 +78,7 @@ Added
 - Pluggable Feature Maps for QSVM algos
 - Pluggable Variation Forms for QSVM.Variational
 - SPSA calibration and control variables all configurable
-- Step size configurable for optimizers with numerical approximation of the jacobian 
+- Step size configurable for optimizers with numerical approximation of the jacobian
 - Z2 Symmetry tapering
    - Operator
    - HartreeFock InitialState
@@ -133,11 +170,12 @@ Changed
 - Updated qiskit minimum version in setup.py.
 - Fixed links in readme.me.
 
-.. _UNRELEASED: https://github.com/Qiskit/aqua/compare/0.3.1...HEAD
-.. _0.3.1: https://github.com/Qiskit/aqua/compare/0.3.0...0.3.1
-.. _0.3.0: https://github.com/Qiskit/aqua/compare/0.2.0...0.3.0
-.. _0.2.0: https://github.com/Qiskit/aqua/compare/0.1.2...0.2.0
-.. _0.1.2: https://github.com/Qiskit/aqua/compare/0.1.1...0.1.2
-.. _0.1.1: https://github.com/Qiskit/aqua/compare/0.1.0...0.1.1
+.. _UNRELEASED: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aqua/compare/0.4.0...HEAD
+.. _0.4.0: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aqua/compare/0.3.1...0.4.0
+.. _0.3.1: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aqua/compare/0.3.0...0.3.1
+.. _0.3.0: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aqua/compare/0.2.0...0.3.0
+.. _0.2.0: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aqua/compare/0.1.2...0.2.0
+.. _0.1.2: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aqua/compare/0.1.1...0.1.2
+.. _0.1.1: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aqua/compare/0.1.0...0.1.1
 
 .. _Keep a Changelog: http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/

CONTRIBUTORS.rst

@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ Aqua continues now to grow with the help and work of many
 people, listed here in alphabetical order, who contribute to the project at different
 levels:
 
-- Panagiotis Barkoutsos
+- `Panagiotis Barkoutsos <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=zurich-BPA>`__
 - Sergey Bravyi
 - Chun-Fu (Richard) Chen
 - `Antonio Córcoles-Gonzalez <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-adcorcol>`__
+- Albert Frisch
 - `Jay Gambetta <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-jay.gambetta>`__
 - Jennifer Glick
 - `Donny Greenberg <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=ibm-donny>`__
@@ -25,10 +26,11 @@ levels:
 - `Nikolaj Moll <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=zurich-NIM>`__
 - `Giacomo Nannicini <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-nannicini>`__
 - Pauline Ollitrault
+- `Anna Phan <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=au1-anna.phan>`__
 - `Marco Pistoia <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-pistoia>`__
 - `Julia Rice <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-jrice>`__
 - `Raymond Harry Putra Rudy <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=jp-RUDYHAR>`__
 - `Kanav Setia <https://physics.dartmouth.edu/people/kanav-setia>`__
 - `Ivano Tavernelli <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=zurich-ITA>`__
 - `Stephen Wood <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-woodsp>`__
-- `Stefan Wörner <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=zurich-wor>`__
+- `Stefan Woerner <https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=zurich-wor>`__

MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 recursive-include qiskit_aqua *.json
-include qiskit_aqua/Qconfig_template.txt
+recursive-include qiskit_aqua_ui *.json

Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Copyright 2018, IBM.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 found in
+# the LICENSE.txt file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+.PHONY: env doc
+
+# Dependencies need to be installed on the Anaconda virtual environment.
+env:
+	if test $(findstring QISKitenv, $(shell conda info --envs)); then \
+		bash -c "source activate QISKitenv;pip install -r requirements.txt"; \
+	else \
+		conda create -y -n QISKitenv python=3; \
+		bash -c "source activate QISKitenv;pip install -r requirements.txt"; \
+	fi;
+
+doc:
+	# create Qiskit Chemistry docs
+	make -C ../qiskit-chemistry/docs clean
+	sphinx-apidoc -f -o ../qiskit-chemistry/docs ../qiskit-chemistry
+	make -C ../qiskit-chemistry/docs html
+	# create Aqua docs
+	make -C docs clean
+	sphinx-apidoc -f -o docs .
+	make -C docs html
+
+clean: 
+	# clean Qiskit Chemistry docs
+	make -C ../qiskit-chemistry/docs clean
+	# clean Qiskit Aqua docs
+	make -C docs clean

README.md

@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ Qiskit Algorithms for Quantum Applications (Qiskit Aqua) is a library of algorit
 that uses [Qiskit Terra](https://qiskit.org/terra) to build out, compile and run quantum circuits.
 
 Aqua provides a library of cross-domain algorithms upon which domain-specific applications can be
-built. At the time of writing, [Aqua Chemistry](https://github.com/Qiskit/aqua-chemistry) has
+built. At the time of writing, [Aqua Chemistry](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-chemistry) has
 been created to utilize Aqua for quantum chemistry computations. Aqua is also showcased for other
 domains with both code and notebook examples, such as
-[Aqua Optimization](https://github.com/Qiskit/aqua-tutorials/tree/master/optimization) and
-[Aqua Artificial Intelligence](https://github.com/Qiskit/aqua-tutorials/tree/master/artificial_intelligence).
+[Aqua Optimization](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-tutorials/tree/master/community/aqua/optimization) and
+[Aqua Artificial Intelligence](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-tutorials/tree/master/community/aqua/artificial_intelligence).
 
 Aqua was designed to be extensible, and uses a pluggable framework where algorithms and support objects used
 by algorithms, such as optimizers, variational forms, and oracles, are derived from a defined base class for the type and
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ python qiskit_aqua/ui/browser
 ### Programming
 
 Any algorithm in Aqua can be run programmatically too. The aqua folder in the
-[aqua-tutorials GitHub repository](https://github.com/Qiskit/aqua-tutorials/tree/master/aqua) contains numerous
+[qiskit-tutorial GitHub repository](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-tutorials/tree/master/community/aqua) contains numerous
 examples that demonstrate how to do this. As you can see, Aqua exposes a `run_algorithm` method, which takes either
 the JSON algorithm input or an equivalent Python dictionary and optional `AlgorithmInput` object for the algorithm.
 There is also a `run_algorithm_to_json` method that simply takes the input and saves it to JSON in a self-contained form,

docs/Makefile

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # You can set these variables from the command line.
 SPHINXOPTS    =
 SPHINXBUILD   = python -msphinx
-SPHINXPROJ    = QLib
+SPHINXPROJ    = Aqua
 SOURCEDIR     = .
 BUILDDIR      = _build