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Recent advancements in quantum computing and quantum-inspired algorithms have sparked renewed interest in binary optimization. These hardware and software innovations promise to revolutionize solution times for complex problems. In this…

We discuss a model for quantum computing with initially mixed states. Although such a computer is known to be less powerful than a quantum computer operating with pure (entangled) states, it may efficiently solve some problems for which no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Michael Siomau , Stephan Fritzsche

This paper introduces in detail a non-variational quantum algorithm designed to solve a wide range of combinatorial optimisation problems, including constrained problems and problems with non-binary variables. The algorithm returns optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Tavis Bennett , Lyle Noakes , Jingbo B. Wang

In some optimal control problems, complex relationships between states and inputs cannot be easily represented using continuous constraints, necessitating the use of discrete logic instead. This paper presents a method for incorporating…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 J. Wehbeh , E. C. Kerrigan

Mixed-integer convex programming (MICP) has seen significant algorithmic and hardware improvements with several orders of magnitude solve time speedups compared to 25 years ago. Despite these advances, MICP has been rarely applied to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-12 A. Cauligi , P. Culbertson , B. Stellato , D. Bertsimas , M. Schwager , M. Pavone

Quantum Optimal Control is an established field of research which is necessary for the development of Quantum Technologies. In recent years, Machine Learning techniques have been proved usefull to tackle a variety of quantum problems. In…

We propose a quantum machine learning algorithm for efficiently solving a class of problems encoded in quantum controlled unitary operations. The central physical mechanism of the protocol is the iteration of a quantum time-delayed equation…

This paper studies accelerations in Q-learning algorithms. We propose an accelerated target update scheme by incorporating the historical iterates of Q functions. The idea is conceptually inspired by the momentum-based accelerated methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Bowen Weng , Huaqing Xiong , Wei Zhang

In this paper we design a novel class of online distributed optimization algorithms leveraging control theoretical techniques. We start by focusing on quadratic costs, and assuming to know an internal model of their variation. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Wouter J. A. van Weerelt , Nicola Bastianello

The Markov Chain Monte Carlo method is at the heart of efficient approximation schemes for a wide range of problems in combinatorial enumeration and statistical physics. It is therefore very natural and important to determine whether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pawel Wocjan , Anura Abeyesinghe

Optimal control theory is a powerful tool for solving control problems in quantum mechanics, ranging from the control of chemical reactions to the implementation of gates in a quantum computer. Gradient-based optimization methods are able…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Michael H. Goerz , K. Birgitta Whaley , Christiane P. Koch

We present a time-parallelization method that enables to accelerate the computation of quantum optimal control algorithms. We show that this approach is approximately fully efficient when based on a gradient method as optimization solver:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Mohamed-Kamel Riahi , Julien Salomon , S. J. Glaser , D Sugny

Quantum annealing is a heuristic algorithm for searching the ground state of an Ising model. Heuristic algorithms aim to obtain near-optimal solutions with a reasonable computation time. Accordingly, many algorithms have so far been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Shuntaro Okada , Masayuki Ohzeki

We present the first accelerated randomized algorithm for solving linear systems in Euclidean spaces. One essential problem of this type is the matrix inversion problem. In particular, our algorithm can be specialized to invert positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Robert M. Gower , Filip Hanzely , Peter Richtárik , Sebastian Stich

Despite the broad use of fixed-point iterations throughout applied mathematics, the optimal convergence rate of general fixed-point problems with nonexpansive nonlinear operators has not been established. This work presents an acceleration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Jisun Park , Ernest K. Ryu

Optimally-shaped electromagnetic fields have the capacity to coherently control the dynamics of quantum systems and thus offer a promising means for controlling molecular transformations relevant to chemical, biological, and materials…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Alicia B. Magann , Matthew D. Grace , Herschel A. Rabitz , Mohan Sarovar

We present an accelerated algorithm for the solution of static Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations related to optimal control problems. Our scheme is based on a classic policy iteration procedure, which is known to have superlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Alessandro Alla , Maurizio Falcone , Dante Kalise

Combinatorial optimization is considered a promising class of problems in which quantum computers can show significant advantages. However, problems of practical relevance typically have more variables than current or foreseeable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Mathias Schmid , Naeimeh Mohseni , Michael J. Hartmann

This paper proposes an iterative method to solve Mixed-Integer Optimal Control Problems arising from systems with switched dynamics. The so-called relaxed problem plays a central role within this context. Through a numerical example, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Ramin Abbasi-Esfeden , Wim Van Roy , Jan Swevers

Clustering is one of the most crucial problems in unsupervised learning, and the well-known $k$-means clustering algorithm has been shown to be implementable on a quantum computer with a significant speedup. However, many clustering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Qingyu Li , Yuhan Huang , Shan Jin , Xiaokai Hou , Xiaoting Wang