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We use quantum walks to construct a new quantum algorithm for element distinctness and its generalization. For element distinctness (the problem of finding two equal items among N given items), we get an O(N^{2/3}) query quantum algorithm.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Andris Ambainis

Our objective is to sample the node set of a large unknown graph via crawling, to accurately estimate a given metric of interest. We design a random walk on an appropriately defined weighted graph that achieves high efficiency by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-03-29 M. Kurant , M. Gjoka , C. T. Butts , A. Markopoulou

Recently, Ambainis gave an O(N^(2/3))-query quantum walk algorithm for element distinctness, and more generally, an O(N^(L/(L+1)))-query algorithm for finding L equal numbers. We point out that this algorithm actually solves a much more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Andrew M. Childs , Jason M. Eisenberg

Graphlets are induced subgraph patterns and have been frequently applied to characterize the local topology structures of graphs across various domains, e.g., online social networks (OSNs) and biological networks. Discovering and computing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Xiaowei Chen , Yongkun Li , Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui

The quantum walk is a powerful tool to develop quantum algorithms, which usually are based on searching for a vertex in a graph with multiple marked vertices, Ambainis's quantum algorithm for solving the element distinctness problem being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 G. A. Bezerra , P. H. G. Lugão , R. Portugal

De novo DNA sequence assembly is based on finding paths in overlap graphs, which is a NP-hard problem. We developed a quantum algorithm for de novo assembly based on quantum walks in graphs. The overlap graph is partitioned repeatedly to…

The development of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has led to great progress in machine learning on graph-structured data. These networks operate via diffusing information across the graph nodes while capturing the structure of the graph.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Shiv Shankar , Don Towsley

We present several families of graphs that allow both efficient quantum walk implementations and efficient quantum walk based search algorithms. For these graphs, we construct quantum circuits that explicitly implement the full quantum walk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 B. L. Douglas , J. B. Wang

Control and characterization of networks is a paramount step for the development of many quantum technologies. Even for moderate-sized networks, this amounts to explore an extremely vast parameters space in search for the couplings defining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Claudia Benedetti , Ilaria Gianani

The Maximum Matching problem has a quantum query complexity lower bound of $\Omega(n^{3/2})$ for graphs on $n$ vertices represented by an adjacency matrix. The current best quantum algorithm has the query complexity $O(n^{7/4})$, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Alcides Gomes Andrade Júnior , Akira Matsubayashi

In this paper, we present a novel approach based on the random walk process for finding meaningful representations of a graph model. Our approach leverages the transient behavior of many short random walks with novel initialization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Lin Li , William M. Campbell , Rajmonda S. Caceres

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become important machine learning tools for graph analysis, and its explainability is crucial for safety, fairness, and robustness. Layer-wise relevance propagation for GNNs (GNN-LRP) evaluates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ping Xiong , Thomas Schnake , Michael Gastegger , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller , Shinichi Nakajima

Quantum walks are powerful kernels in quantum computing protocols that possess strong capabilities in speeding up various simulation and optimisation tasks. One striking example is given by quantum walkers evolving on glued trees for their…

The phenomenal growth of graph data from a wide variety of real-world applications has rendered graph querying to be a problem of paramount importance. Traditional techniques use structural as well as node similarities to find matches of a…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Jithin Vachery , Akhil Arora , Sayan Ranu , Arnab Bhattacharya

In this paper we introduce a novel polynomial-time algorithm to compute graph invariants based on the modified random walk idea on graphs. However not proved to be a full graph invariant by now, our method gives the right answer for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Alexander Gamkrelidze , Gunter Hotz , Levan Varamashvili

The random walk formalism is used across a wide range of applications, from modelling share prices to predicting population genetics. Likewise quantum walks have shown much potential as a frame- work for developing new quantum algorithms.…

In this paper, we propose a circuit design for implementing quantum walks on complex networks. Quantum walks are powerful tools for various graph-based applications such as spatial search, community detection, and node classification.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Rei Sato , Kazuhiro Saito

The task of representing entire graphs has seen a surge of prominent results, mainly due to learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on graph-structured data. While CNNs demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in graph classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Sergey Ivanov , Evgeny Burnaev

Quantum walk has emerged as an essential tool for searching marked vertices on various graphs. Recent advances in the discrete-time quantum walk search algorithm have enabled it to effectively handle multiple marked vertices, expanding its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Pulak Ranjan Giri , Rei Sato , Kazuhiro Saito

The analysis of large collections of image data is still a challenging problem due to the difficulty of capturing the true concepts in visual data. The similarity between images could be computed using different and possibly multimodal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Renata Khasanova , Xiaowen Dong , Pascal Frossard