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Scaling the size of monolithic quantum computer systems is a difficult task. As the number of qubits within a device increases, a number of factors contribute to decreases in yield and performance. To meet this challenge, distributed…

We present a finitely convergent cutting-plane algorithm for solving a general mixed-integer convex program given an oracle for solving a general convex program. This method is extended to solve a family of two-stage mixed-integer convex…

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Graph partitioning (GP) and vertex connectivity have traditionally been two distinct fields of study. This paper introduces the highly connected graph partitioning (HCGP) problem, which partitions a graph into compact, size balanced, and…

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Quantum computing has recently emerged as a promising computing paradigm for many application domains. However, the size of quantum circuits that can be run with high fidelity is constrained by the limited quantity and quality of physical…

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We show that using the multi-splitting algorithm as a preconditioner for the domain wall Dirac linear operator, arising in lattice QCD, effectively reduces the inter-node communication cost, at the expense of performing more on-node…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-09-09 Jiqun Tu , M. A. Clark , Chulwoo Jung , Robert Mawhinney

A common way of partitioning graphs is through minimum cuts. One drawback of classical minimum cut methods is that they tend to produce small groups, which is why more balanced variants such as normalized and ratio cuts have seen more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Chakib Fettal , Lazhar Labiod , Mohamed Nadif

From logistics to the natural sciences, combinatorial optimisation on graphs underpins numerous real-world applications. Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown particular promise in this setting as it can adapt to specific problem structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Thomas D. Barrett , Christopher W. F. Parsonson , Alexandre Laterre

Circuit cutting is a promising technique that leverages both quantum and classical computational resources, enabling the practical execution of large quantum circuits on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. Recent approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Shuwen Kan , Yanni Li , Hao Wang , Sara Mouradian , Ying Mao

In mixed-integer programming (MIP) solvers, cutting planes are essential for Branch-and-Cut (B&C) algorithms as they reduce the search space and accelerate the solving process. Traditional methods rely on hard-coded heuristics for cut plane…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shuli Zeng , Sijia Zhang , Shaoang Li , Feng Wu , Xiang-Yang Li

Extensive prior research has focused on alleviating the characteristic poor cache locality of graph analytics workloads. However, graph pre-processing tasks remain relatively unexplored. In many important scenarios, graph pre-processing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Vignesh Balaji , Brandon Lucia

Probabilistic relaxations of graph cuts offer a differentiable alternative to spectral clustering, enabling end-to-end and online learning without eigendecompositions, yet prior work centered on RatioCut and lacked general guarantees and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ayoub Ghriss

Exact solution of hard combinatorial optimization problems often relies on strong convex relaxations, but solving these relaxations repeatedly inside a branch-and-bound algorithm can be prohibitively expensive. Hence, we consider this…

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Reducing the running time of graph algorithms is vital for tackling real-world problems such as shortest paths and matching in large-scale graphs, where path information plays a crucial role. To address this critical challenge, this paper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Akshar Chavan , Sanaz Rabinia , Daniel Grosu , Marco Brocanelli

Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm to solve this class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano

A $k$-defective clique of an undirected graph $G$ is a subset of its vertices that induces a nearly complete graph with a maximum of $k$ missing edges. The maximum $k$-defective clique problem, which asks for the largest $k$-defective…

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Graphs are a natural representation of data from various contexts, such as social connections, the web, road networks, and many more. In the last decades, many of these networks have become enormous, requiring efficient algorithms to cut…

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Graph states are a key resource for measurement-based quantum computation and quantum networking, but state-preparation costs limit their practical use. Graph states related by local complement (LC) operations are equivalent up to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Nicholas Connolly , Shin Nishio , Dan E. Browne , William John Munro , Kae Nemoto

Nowadays, in the big data era, social networks, graph databases, knowledge graphs, electronic commerce etc. demand efficient and scalable capability to process an ever increasing volume of graph-structured data. To meet the challenge, two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Xiaole Wen , Shuai Zhang , Haihang You

High-level applications, such as machine learning, are evolving from simple models based on multilayer perceptrons for simple image recognition to much deeper and more complex neural networks for self-driving vehicle control systems.The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Guixiang Ma , Yao Xiao , Theodore L. Willke , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Shahin Nazarian , Paul Bogdan

Graph-specific computing with the support of dedicated accelerator has greatly boosted the graph processing in both efficiency and energy. Nevertheless, their data conflict management is still sequential in essential when some vertex needs…

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