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Quantum annealers offer an efficient way to compute high quality solutions of NP-hard problems when expressed in a QUBO (quadratic unconstrained binary optimization) or an Ising form. This is done by mapping a problem onto the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo N. Djidjev

Constrained optimization underlies crucial societal problems (for instance, stock trading and bandwidth allocation), but is often computationally hard (complexity grows exponentially with problem size). The big-data era urgently demands…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jinzhan Li , Suhas Kumar , Su-in Yi

An important and difficult problem in optimization is the high-order unconstrained binary optimization, which can represent many optimization problems more efficient than quadratic unconstrained binary optimization, but how to quickly solve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Bi-Ying Wang , Xiaopeng Cui , Qingguo Zeng , Yemin Zhan , Man-Hong Yung , Yu Shi

Quantum annealing has emerged as a powerful tool for solving combinatorial optimization problems efficiently, making use of the principles of quantum mechanics. Companies are increasingly investing in the market of quantum computers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Lorenzo Mazzei , Giada Beccari , Mirko Laruina , Marco Cococcioni

Current quantum annealing (QA) hardware suffers from practical limitations such as finite temperature, sparse connectivity, small qubit numbers, and control error. We propose new algorithms for mapping boolean constraint satisfaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Zhengbing Bian , Fabian Chudak , Robert Israel , Brad Lackey , William G. Macready , Aidan Roy

Variational quantum circuits for image classification suffer from barren plateaus, while quantum kernel methods scale quadratically with dataset size. We propose an iterative framework based on Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Mostafa Atallah , Rebekah Herrman

The application of quantum annealing to the optimization of continuous-variable functions is a relatively unexplored area of research. We test the performance of quantum annealing applied to a one-dimensional continuous-variable function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Shunta Arai , Hiroki Oshiyama , Hidetoshi Nishimori

We explore the applicability of quantum annealing to the approximation task of curve fitting. To this end, we consider a function that shall approximate a given set of data points and is written as a finite linear combination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Philipp Isserstedt , Daniel Jaroszewski , Wolfgang Mergenthaler , Felix Paul , Bastian Harrach

Over the past decade, the usefulness of quantum annealing hardware for combinatorial optimization has been the subject of much debate. Thus far, experimental benchmarking studies have indicated that quantum annealing hardware does not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Byron Tasseff , Tameem Albash , Zachary Morrell , Marc Vuffray , Andrey Y. Lokhov , Sidhant Misra , Carleton Coffrin

Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) sits at the heart of many industries and academic fields such as logistics, supply chain, finance, pharmaceutical science, chemistry, IT, and energy sectors, among others. These problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Chia-Tso Lai , Carsten Blank , Peter Schmelcher , Rick Mukherjee

We demonstrate experimentally that the bias-field digitized counterdiabatic quantum optimization (BF-DCQO) algorithm on IBM's 156-qubit devices can outperform simulated annealing (SA) and CPLEX in time-to-approximate solutions for specific…

Scenario-based stochastic optimal control problems suffer from the curse of dimensionality as they can easily grow to six and seven figure sizes. First-order methods are suitable as they can deal with such large-scale problems, but may fail…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Ajay K. Sampathirao , Panagiotis Patrinos , Alberto Bemporad , Pantelis Sopasakis

In this paper we study the viability of solving the Chinese Postman Problem, a graph routing optimization problem, and many of its variants on a quantum annealing device. Routing problem variants considered include graph type, directionally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 Joel E. Pion , Christian F. A. Negre , Susan M. Mniszewski

Graph partitioning has many applications in powersystems from decentralized state estimation to parallel simulation. Focusing on parallel simulation, optimal grid partitioning minimizes the idle time caused by different simulation times for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-14 Carsten Hartmann , Junjie Zhang , Carlos D. Gonzalez Calaza , Thiemo Pesch , Kristel Michielsen , Andrea Benigni

This paper presents key enhancements to our previous work~\cite{naghmouchi2024mixed} on a hybrid Benders decomposition (HBD) framework for solving mixed integer linear programs (MILPs). In our approach, the master problem is reformulated as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Anna Joliot , M. Yassine Naghmouchi , Wesley Coelho

I present a novel use of quantum annealing to solve the Set Splitting Problem using (QUBO) problem formulation. The contribution of the work is in formulating penalty functions that ensure the ground state of the QUBO Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Sean Borneman

In this paper, we study the problem of digital pre/post-coding design in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with 1-bit resolution per complex dimension. The optimal solution that maximizes the received signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Ioannis Krikidis

To increase efficiency in automotive manufacturing, newly produced vehicles can move autonomously from the production line to the distribution area. This requires an optimal placement of sensors to ensure full coverage while minimizing the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Nico Kraus , Marvin Erdmann , Alexander Kuzmany , Daniel Porawski , Jonas Stein

Optimization is finding the best solution, which mathematically amounts to locating the global minimum of some cost function. Optimization is traditionally automated with digital or quantum computers, each having their limitations and none…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-16 Natalia B. Janson , Christopher J. Marsden

The Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) model has gained prominence in recent years with the discovery that it unifies a rich variety of combinatorial optimization problems. By its association with the Ising problem in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Fred Glover , Gary Kochenberger , Yu Du