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---
title: QFIBase
description: API reference for qiskit.opflow.gradients.QFIBase
in_page_toc_min_heading_level: 1
python_api_type: class
python_api_name: qiskit.opflow.gradients.QFIBase
---
# QFIBase
<Class id="qiskit.opflow.gradients.QFIBase" isDedicatedPage={true} github="https://github.com/qiskit/qiskit/tree/stable/0.20/qiskit/opflow/gradients/qfi_base.py" signature="QFIBase(qfi_method='lin_comb_full')" modifiers="class">
Bases: `qiskit.opflow.gradients.derivative_base.DerivativeBase`
Base class for Quantum Fisher Information (QFI).
Compute the Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) given a pure, parameterized quantum state.
The QFI is:
> \[QFI]kl= Re\[〈∂kψ|∂lψ〉〈∂kψ|ψ〉〈ψ|∂lψ〉] \* 4.
**Parameters**
**qfi\_method** (`Union`\[`str`, `CircuitQFI`]) The method used to compute the state/probability gradient. Can be either a [`CircuitQFI`](qiskit.opflow.gradients.CircuitQFI "qiskit.opflow.gradients.CircuitQFI") instance or one of the following pre-defined strings `'lin_comb_full'`, `` 'overlap_diag'` `` or `` 'overlap_block_diag'` ``.
**Raises**
**ValueError** if `qfi_method` is neither a `CircuitQFI` object nor one of the predefined strings.
## Attributes
### qfi\_method
<Attribute id="qiskit.opflow.gradients.QFIBase.qfi_method">
Returns `CircuitQFI`.
**Return type**
`CircuitQFI`
**Returns**
`CircuitQFI`.
</Attribute>
</Class>