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In the Grover-type quantum search process a search operator is iteratively applied, say, k times, on the initial database state. We present an additive decomposition scheme such that the iteration process is expressed, in the computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 F. M. Toyama , W. van Dijk

We present a quantum algorithm for solving perfect mazes by casting the pathfinding task as a structured search problem. Building on Grover's amplitude amplification, the algorithm encodes all candidate paths in superposition and evaluates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Michelle L. Wu

In this work, we develop a convergence framework for iterative algorithms whose updates can be described by a one-parameter family of nonexpansive operators. Within the framework, each step involving one of the main algorithmic operators is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Felipe Atenas , Heinz H. Bauschke , Minh N. Dao , Matthew K. Tam

An attempt has been made in this paper to modify Grover's Algorithm to find the binary string solutions approximating a target cost value. In that direction, new Controlled Oracle and the Local Diffusion Operator are suggested, apart from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Sayantan Pramanik , M Girish Chandra , Shampa Sarkar , Manoj Nambiar

Grover's search algorithm is the cornerstone of many applications of quantum computing, providing a quadratic speed-up over classical methods. One limitation of the algorithm is that it requires knowledge of the number of solutions to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Samuel Cogan , Jonathan Raghoonanan , Tim Byrnes

Most algorithms for solving optimization problems or finding saddle points of convex-concave functions are fixed-point algorithms. In this work we consider the generic problem of finding a fixed point of an average of operators, or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Grigory Malinovsky , Dmitry Kovalev , Elnur Gasanov , Laurent Condat , Peter Richtárik

We consider the application of the type-I Anderson acceleration to solving general non-smooth fixed-point problems. By interleaving with safe-guarding steps, and employing a Powell-type regularization and a re-start checking for strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Junzi Zhang , Brendan O'Donoghue , Stephen Boyd

Grover's algorithm, a well-know quantum search algorithm, allows one to find the correct item in a database, with quadratic speedup. In this paper we adapt Grover's algorithm to the problem of finding a correct answer to a natural language…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 A. D. Correia , M. Moortgat , H. T. C. Stoof

The Grover algorithm is a crucial solution for addressing unstructured search problems and has emerged as an essential quantum subroutine in various complex algorithms. By using a different approach with previous studies, this research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Yifan Sun , Lian-Ao Wu

We prove that the fixed point iteration of arbitrary positive concave mappings with nonempty fixed point set converges geometrically for any starting point. We also show that positivity is crucial for this result to hold, and the concept of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Tomasz Piotrowski , Renato L. G. Cavalcante

In this article we develop convergence theory for a class of goal-oriented adaptive finite element algorithms for second order nonsymmetric linear elliptic equations. In particular, we establish contraction results for a method of this type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-09 Michael Holst , Sara Pollock

In this paper an attractor FCM is created, tested, and analyzed. This FCM is neither a hebbian based nor agentic, nor a hybrid; it rather is a gradient descent based, physics constrained, Jacobian version of an FCM. Moreover, this model has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Alexis Kafantaris

In the recent years, we have seen that Grover search algorithm (Proceedings, 28th annual ACM symposium on the theory of computing, pp. 212-219, 1996) by using quantum parallelism has revolutionized the field of solving huge class of NP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 Indranil Chakrabarty , Shahzor Khan , Vanshdeep Singh

In this article we develop a convergence theory for goal-oriented adaptive finite element algorithms designed for a class of second-order semilinear elliptic equations. We briefly discuss the target problem class, and introduce several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Michael Holst , Sara Pollock , Yunrong Zhu

It is known that adaptive optimization algorithms represent the key pillar behind the rise of the Machine Learning field. In the Optimization literature numerous studies have been devoted to accelerated gradient methods but only recently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Cristian Daniel Alecsa

Grover's search algorithm has attracted great attention due to its quadratic speedup over classical algorithms in unsorted database search problems. However, Grover's algorithm is inefficient in multi-target search problems, except in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Shijin Zhong , Wei Li , Guangzhen Dai , Daohua Wu

We introduce a novel algorithm for gradient-based optimization of stochastic objective functions. The method may be seen as a variant of SGD with momentum equipped with an adaptive learning rate automatically adjusted by an 'energy'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Hailiang Liu , Xuping Tian

This paper concerns models and convergence principles for dealing with stochasticity in a wide range of algorithms arising in nonlinear analysis and optimization in Hilbert spaces. It proposes a flexible geometric framework within which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Patrick L. Combettes , Javier I. Madariaga

It has been shown in recent years that quantum information has a topological nature (\cite{AC}, \cite{Co}, \cite{Co2}). In \cite{V}, Vicary undergoes the study of quantum algorithms using this new topological approach. The advantage of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Ali Nabi Duman

We consider an adaptive finite element method with arbitrary but fixed polynomial degree $p \ge 1$, where adaptivity is driven by an edge-based residual error estimator. Based on the modified maximum criterion from [Diening et al, Found.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Michael Innerberger , Dirk Praetorius