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A quantum-inspired optimization approach is proposed to study the portfolio optimization aimed at selecting an optimal mix of assets based on the risk-return trade-off to achieve the desired goal in investment. By integrating conventional…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-15 Ying-Chang Lu , Chao-Ming Fu , Lien-Po Yu , Yen-Jui Chang , Ching-Ray Chang

Combinatorial optimization is a challenging problem applicable in a wide range of fields from logistics to finance. Recently, quantum computing has been used to attempt to solve these problems using a range of algorithms, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Jonathan Wurtz , Stefan Sack , Sheng-Tao Wang

Portfolio optimization is one of the most studied optimization problems at the intersection of quantum computing and finance. In this work, we develop the first quantum formulation for a portfolio optimization problem with higher-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Valter Uotila , Julia Ripatti , Bo Zhao

The recent literature on near-term applications for quantum computers contains several examples of the applications of hybrid quantum/classical variational approaches. This methodology can be applied to a variety of optimization problems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Giacomo Nannicini

A central challenge in quantum computing is to identify more computational problems for which utilization of quantum resources can offer significant speedup. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical scheme to tackle the quantum optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Jun Li , Xiaodong Yang , Xinhua Peng , Chang-Pu Sun

To date, research in quantum computation promises potential for outperforming classical heuristics in combinatorial optimization. However, when aiming at provable optimality, one has to rely on classical exact methods like integer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Friedrich Wagner , Jonas Nüßlein , Frauke Liers

Quantum computing is poised to transform the financial industry, yet its advantages over traditional methods have not been evidenced. As this technology rapidly evolves, benchmarking is essential to fairly evaluate and compare different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Ying Chen , Thorsten Koch , Hanqiu Peng , Hongrui Zhang

The presence of stochastic elements in combinatorial optimization problems makes them particularly challenging, as such problems quickly become intractable for classical computers even at relatively small sizes. In this work, we propose a…

We propose a sequential minimal optimization method for quantum-classical hybrid algorithms, which converges faster, is robust against statistical error, and is hyperparameter-free. Specifically, the optimization problem of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Ken M. Nakanishi , Keisuke Fujii , Synge Todo

Machine learning techniques have led to broad adoption of a statistical model of computing. The statistical distributions natively available on quantum processors are a superset of those available classically. Harnessing this attribute has…

In this note, we describe an experiment on portfolio optimization using the Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) formulation. The dataset we use is taken from a real-world problem for which a classical solution is currently…

Combinatorial optimization problems have attracted much interest in the quantum computing community in the recent years as a potential testbed to showcase quantum advantage. In this paper, we show how to exploit multilevel carriers of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 M. Garcia de Andoin , A. Bottarelli , S. Schmitt , I. Oregi , P. Hauke , M. Sanz

Partial (replication) index tracking is a popular passive investment strategy. It aims to replicate the performance of a given index by constructing a tracking portfolio which contains some constituents of the index. The tracking error…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-11-15 Yu Zheng , Bowei Chen , Timothy M. Hospedales , Yongxin Yang

Quantum variational circuits have gained significant attention due to their applications in the quantum approximate optimization algorithm and quantum machine learning research. This work introduces a novel class of classical probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Gal Weitz , Lirandë Pira , Chris Ferrie , Joshua Combes

A broad class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms known as "variational algorithms" have been proposed in the context of quantum simulation, machine learning, and combinatorial optimization as a means of potentially achieving a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Aram Harrow , John Napp

Recent advances in quantum hardware offer new approaches to solve various optimization problems that can be computationally expensive when classical algorithms are employed. We propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to solve a dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 H. Xu , S. Dasgupta , A. Pothen , A. Banerjee

Portfolio optimization plays a central role in finance to obtain optimal portfolio allocations that aim to achieve certain investment goals. Over the years, many works have investigated different variants of portfolio optimization.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Debbie Lim , Patrick Rebentrost

This paper investigates whether hybrid quantum-classical machine learning can deliver practical improvements in financial fraud detection performance for card-based and other payment transactions. Building on a Guided Quantum Compressor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Rodrigo Chaves , Kunal Kumar , Bruno Chagas , Rory Linerud , Brannen Sorem , Javier Mancilla , Bryn Bell

Despite extensive research efforts, few quantum algorithms for classical optimization demonstrate realizable quantum advantage. The utility of many quantum algorithms is limited by high requisite circuit depth and nonconvex optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Taylor L. Patti , Jean Kossaifi , Anima Anandkumar , Susanne F. Yelin

Quantum algorithms have gained increasing attention for addressing complex combinatorial problems in finance, notably portfolio optimization. This study systematically benchmarks two prominent variational quantum approaches, Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Nouhaila Innan , Ayesha Saleem , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique