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One important feature of complex systems are problem domains that have many local minima and substructure. Biological systems manage these local minima by switching between different subsystems depending on their environmental or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Ankit Grover , Vaishali Yadav , Bradly Alicea

Reversing an unknown quantum evolution is of central importance to quantum information processing and fundamental physics, yet it remains a formidable challenge as conventional methods necessitate an infinite number of queries to fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Yu-Ao Chen , Yin Mo , Yingjian Liu , Lei Zhang , Xin Wang

Quantum annealing is a powerful alternative model for quantum computing, which can succeed in the presence of environmental noise even without error correction. However, despite great effort, no conclusive proof of a quantum speedup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Eliot Kapit , Vadim Oganesyan

The clever hybridization of quantum computing concepts and evolutionary algorithms (EAs) resulted in a new field called quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithms (QIEAs). Unlike traditional EAs, QIEAs employ quantum bits to adopt a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yelleti Vivek , Vadlamani Ravi , P. Radha Krishna

Combinatorial optimization is anticipated to be one of the primary use cases for quantum computation in the coming years. The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and Quantum Annealing (QA) can potentially demonstrate…

Genetic algorithms constitute a family of black-box optimization algorithms, which take inspiration from the principles of biological evolution. While they provide a general-purpose tool for optimization, their particular instantiations can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Robert Tjarko Lange , Tom Schaul , Yutian Chen , Chris Lu , Tom Zahavy , Valentin Dalibard , Sebastian Flennerhag

This paper summarizes a quantum algorithm of [R.D. Somma, et.al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 130504 (2008)] that simulates a classical annealing process for solving discrete optimization problems. The complexity of the quantum algorithm scales…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Sergio Boixo , Rolando D. Somma

Quantum Embeddings (QE) are essential for loading classical data into quantum systems for Quantum Machine Learning (QML). The performance of QML algorithms depends on the type of QE and how features are mapped to qubits. Traditionally, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Koustubh Phalak , Archisman Ghosh , Swaroop Ghosh

Quantum optimization allows for up to exponential quantum speedups for specific, possibly industrially relevant problems. As the key algorithm in this field, we motivate and discuss the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jonas Stein , Maximilian Zorn , Leo Sünkel , Thomas Gabor

Quantum machine learning has the potential for broad industrial applications, and the development of quantum algorithms for improving the performance of neural networks is of particular interest given the central role they play in machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Jonathan Allcock , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Iordanis Kerenidis , Shengyu Zhang

We review here the recent success in quantum annealing, i.e., optimization of the cost or energy functions of complex systems utilizing quantum fluctuations. The concept is introduced in successive steps through the studies of mapping of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 Arnab Das , Bikas K. Chakrabarti

We introduce a genetic algorithm that designs quantum optics experiments for engineering quantum states with specific properties. Our algorithm is powerful and flexible, and can easily be modified to find methods of engineering states for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 Rosanna Nichols , Lana Mineh , Jesús Rubio , Jonathan C. F. Matthews , Paul A. Knott

Nowadays genetic algorithm (GA) is greatly used in engineering pedagogy as an adaptive technique to learn and solve complex problems and issues. It is a meta-heuristic approach that is used to solve hybrid computation challenges. GA…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tanweer Alam , Shamimul Qamar , Amit Dixit , Mohamed Benaida

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

We propose a modified expectation-maximization algorithm by introducing the concept of quantum annealing, which we call the deterministic quantum annealing expectation-maximization (DQAEM) algorithm. The expectation-maximization (EM)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-13 Hideyuki Miyahara , Koji Tsumura , Yuki Sughiyama

Critical decision-making issues in science, engineering, and industry are based on combinatorial optimization; however, its application is inherently limited by the NP-hard nature of the problem. A specialized paradigm of analogue quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Rudraksh Sharma , Ravi Katukam , Arjun Nagulapally

Quantum computers leverage the principles of quantum mechanics to do computation with a potential advantage over classical computers. While a single classical computer transforms one particular binary input into an output after applying one…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Francisco Chicano , Gabiel Luque , Zakaria Abdelmoiz Dahi , Rodrigo Gil-Merino

We introduce a quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) for continuous optimization. The algorithm is based on the dynamics of a quantum system moving in an energy potential which encodes the objective function. By approximating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Guillaume Verdon , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Kamil Brádler , Nathan Killoran

We briefly review various computational methods for the solution of optimization problems. First, several classical methods such as Metropolis algorithm and simulated annealing are discussed. We continue with a description of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-01 Eliahu Cohen , Boaz Tamir

The recent advent of commercially available quantum annealing hardware (QAH) has expanded opportunities for research into quantum annealing-based algorithms. In the domain of power systems, this advancement has driven increased interest in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Rosemary Barrass , Harsha Nagarajan , Carleton Coffrin