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Optimal Access Point (AP) selection is crucial for accurate indoor localization, yet it is constrained by budget, creating a trade-off between localization accuracy and deployment cost. Classical approaches to AP selection are often…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohamed Khalil Brik , Ahmed Shokry , Moustafa Youssef

High-energy physics is replete with hard computational problems and it is one of the areas where quantum computing could be used to speed up calculations. We present an implementation of likelihood-based regularized unfolding on a quantum…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-10-09 Kyle Cormier , Riccardo Di Sipio , Peter Wittek

Quantum annealers offer a promising approach to solve Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems, which have a wide range of applications. However, when a user submits its QUBO problem to a third-party quantum annealer, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Moyang Xie , Yuan Zhang , Sheng Zhong , Qun Li

We continue to investigate the use of quantum computers for building an optimal portfolio out of a universe of 60 U.S. listed, liquid equities. Starting from historical market data, we apply our unique problem formulation on the D-Wave…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-08-21 Jeffrey Cohen , Alex Khan , Clark Alexander

As consequences of disruptions in railway traffic affect passenger experience/satisfaction, appropriate rerouting and/or rescheduling is necessary. These problems are known to be NP-hard, given the numerous restrictions of traffic nature.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Krzysztof Domino , Akash Kundu , Özlem Salehi , Krzysztof Krawiec

Quantum computing has emerged as a powerful tool to efficiently solve computational challenges, particularly in simulation and optimisation. However, hardware limitations prevent quantum computers from achieving the full theoretical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Hugo Araujo , Xinyi Wang , Mohammad Mousavi , Shaukat Ali

Recent work has shown that quantum annealing for machine learning, referred to as QAML, can perform comparably to state-of-the-art machine learning methods with a specific application to Higgs boson classification. We propose QAML-Z, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Alexander Zlokapa , Alex Mott , Joshua Job , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Daniel Lidar , Maria Spiropulu

Quantum annealing is an emerging metaheuristic used for solving combinatorial optimisation problems. However, hardware based physical quantum annealers are primarily limited to a single vendor. As an alternative, we can discretise the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Ameya Bhave , Ajinkya Borle

Two-stage stochastic programming is a problem formulation for decision-making under uncertainty. In the first stage, the actor makes a best "here and now" decision in the presence of uncertain quantities that will be resolved in the future,…

Quantum Bridge Analytics relates to methods and systems for hybrid classical-quantum computing, and is devoted to developing tools for bridging classical and quantum computing to gain the benefits of their alliance in the present and enable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Fred Glover , Gary Kochenberger , Moses Ma , Yu Du

In an era where data underpins decision-making across science, politics, and economics, ensuring high data quality is of paramount importance. Conventional computing algorithms for enhancing data quality, including anomaly detection, demand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Sven Groppe , Valter Uotila , Jinghua Groppe

Quantum Annealing (QA) can efficiently solve combinatorial optimization problems whose objective functions are represented by Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) formulations. For broader applicability of QA, quadratization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Hyakka Nakada , Shu Tanaka

We benchmark current annealing-based optimization workflows on a greenhouse-inspired quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem for binary heater scheduling, where the horizon H denotes the number of hourly control decisions. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Hamzeh Alavirad , Maryam Bahrami Zanjani

Simulated Quantum Annealing (SQA) is a Markov Chain Monte-Carlo algorithm that samples the equilibrium thermal state of a Quantum Annealing (QA) Hamiltonian. In addition to simulating quantum systems, SQA has also been proposed as another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Elizabeth Crosson , Aram W. Harrow

In this paper we show how to implement in a simple way some complex real-life constraints on the portfolio optimization problem, so that it becomes amenable to quantum optimization algorithms. Specifically, first we explain how to obtain…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-08-23 Samuel Palmer , Serkan Sahin , Rodrigo Hernandez , Samuel Mugel , Roman Orus

We consider the problem of accurately measuring the credit risk of a portfolio consisting of loss exposures such as loans, bonds and other financial assets. We are particularly interested in the probability of large portfolio losses. We…

Computation · Statistics 2015-11-03 Kevin Lam , Zdravko Botev

In this paper we tackle the problem of dynamic portfolio optimization, i.e., determining the optimal trading trajectory for an investment portfolio of assets over a period of time, taking into account transaction costs and other possible…

Quantum annealers are specialized quantum computers for solving combinatorial optimization problems using special characteristics of quantum computing (QC), such as superposition, entanglement, and quantum tunneling. Theoretically, quantum…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xinyi Wang , Asmar Muqeet , Tao Yue , Shaukat Ali , Paolo Arcaini

To solve an optimization problem using a commercial quantum annealer, one has to represent the problem of interest as an Ising or a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem and submit its coefficients to the annealer,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo Djidjev

In order to exploit quantum advantages, quantum algorithms are indispensable for operating machine learning with quantum computers. We here propose an intriguing hybrid approach of quantum information processing for quantum linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Dan-Bo Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang