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We study algorithms inspired by quantum annealing that are suited for the NISQ era. First, we analyze approximate quantum annealing (AQA), which employs a discretized annealing ansatz in which the time step and the number of layers are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Rijul Sachdeva , Vrinda Mehta , Manpreet Singh Jattana , Kristel Michielsen , Fengping Jin

Quantum algorithms offer a compelling new avenue for addressing difficult NP-complete optimization problems, such as the Generalized Assignment Problem (GAP). Given the operational constraints of contemporary Noisy Intermediate-Scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Carlo Mastroianni , Francesco Plastina , Jacopo Settino , Andrea Vinci

In this review we consider the performance of the quantum adiabatic algorithm for the solution of decision problems. We divide the possible failure mechanisms into two sets: small gaps due to quantum phase transitions and small gaps due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 C. R. Laumann , R. Moessner , A. Scardicchio , S. L. Sondhi

This Ph.D. thesis provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in the field of Variational Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Machine Learning, including numerous original contributions. The first chapters are devoted to a brief…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Stefano Mangini

Recent advances bring within reach the viability of solving combinatorial problems using a quantum annealing algorithm implemented on a purpose-built platform that exploits quantum properties. However, the question of how to tune the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Andrew D. King , Catherine C. McGeoch

A central goal in quantum computing is the development of quantum hardware and quantum algorithms in order to analyse challenging scientific and engineering problems. Research in quantum computation involves contributions from both physics…

The recent availability of quantum annealers as cloud-based services has enabled new ways to handle machine learning problems, and several relevant algorithms have been adapted to run on these devices. In a recent work, linear regression…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Costantino Carugno , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

Topic models are one of the most popular methods for learning representations of text, but a major challenge is that any change to the topic model requires mathematically deriving a new inference algorithm. A promising approach to address…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-07 Akash Srivastava , Charles Sutton

Quantum annealing is a continuous-time heuristic quantum algorithm for solving or approximately solving classical optimization problems. The algorithm uses a schedule to interpolate between a driver Hamiltonian with an easy-to-prepare…

We present a novel methodology for automated feature subset selection from a pool of physiological signals using Quantum Annealing (QA). As a case study, we will investigate the effectiveness of QA-based feature selection techniques in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-10 Rajdeep Kumar Nath , Himanshu Thapliyal , Travis S. Humble

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are expected to be a path to quantum advantages on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. However, both empirical and theoretical results exhibit that the deployed ansatz heavily affects the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Yuxuan Du , Tao Huang , Shan You , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Dacheng Tao

In this paper, we introduce stochastic simulated quantum annealing (SSQA) for large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. SSQA is designed based on stochastic computing and quantum Monte Carlo, which can simulate quantum annealing (QA)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Naoya Onizawa , Ryoma Sasaki , Duckgyu Shin , Warren J. Gross , Takahiro Hanyu

A promising area of applications for quantum computing is in linear algebra problems. In this work, we introduce two new quantum t-SVD (tensor-SVD) algorithms. The first algorithm is largely based on previous work that proposed a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Jezer Jojo , Ankit Khandelwal , M Girish Chandra

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) hold great promise as a flexible and principled solution to deal with uncertainty when learning from finite data. Among approaches to realize probabilistic inference in deep neural networks, variational Bayes…

Transcription factors regulate gene expression, but how these proteins recognize and specifically bind to their DNA targets is still debated. Machine learning models are effective means to reveal interaction mechanisms. Here we studied the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Richard Y. Li , Rosa Di Felice , Remo Rohs , Daniel A. Lidar

The demand for classical-quantum hybrid algorithms to solve large-scale combinatorial optimization problems using quantum annealing (QA) has increased. One approach involves obtaining an approximate solution using classical algorithms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Taisei Takabayashi , Masayuki Ohzeki

Given their potential to demonstrate near-term quantum advantage, variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have been extensively studied. Although numerous techniques have been developed for VQA parameter optimization, it remains a significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Zichang He , Bo Peng , Yuri Alexeev , Zheng Zhang

Quantum annealing is a computing paradigm that has the ambitious goal of efficiently solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems of practical importance. However, many challenges have yet to be overcome before this goal can be…

Quantum optimization algorithms offer a promising route to finding the ground states of target Hamiltonians on near-term quantum devices. None the less, it remains necessary to limit the evolution time and circuit depth as much as possible,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Chenfeng Cao , Yunlong Yu , Zipeng Wu , Nic Shannon , Bei Zeng , Robert Joynt

Quantum annealing leverages the properties of interacting quantum spin systems to solve computational problems, typically optimisation problems. Current hardware now has capabilities that can be used to solve condensed matter physics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Viv Kendon , Nicholas Chancellor