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Recent improvements in control of quantum systems make it seem feasible to finally build a quantum computer within a decade. While it has been shown that such a quantum computer can in principle solve certain small electronic structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 Bela Bauer , Dave Wecker , Andrew J. Millis , Matthew B. Hastings , M. Troyer

We propose and implement a family of quantum-informed recursive optimization (QIRO) algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. Our approach leverages quantum resources to obtain information that is used in problem-specific…

An adiabatic quantum algorithm is essentially given by three elements: An initial Hamiltonian with known ground state, a problem Hamiltonian whose ground state corresponds to the solution of the given problem and an evolution schedule such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Davide Pastorello , Enrico Blanzieri

With the recent rise of Machine Learning as a candidate to partially replace classic Financial Mathematics methodologies, we investigate the performances of both in solving the problem of dynamic portfolio optimization in continuous-time,…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-10-29 Babak Mahdavi-Damghani , Konul Mustafayeva , Stephen Roberts , Cristin Buescu

In this paper, we study asset selection methods to construct a sparse index tracking portfolio. For its advantage over full replication portfolio, the concept of sparse index tracking portfolio has significant attention in the field of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yutaka Sakurai , Daiki Wakabayashi , Fumio Ishizaki

The development of efficient algorithms that generate robust quantum controls is crucial for the realization of quantum technologies. The commonly used gradient-based optimization algorithms are limited by their sensitivity to the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 M. Harshanth Ram , V. R. Krithika , Priya Batra , T. S. Mahesh

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms (QAOA) have demonstrated a strong potential in addressing graph-based optimization problems. However, the execution of large-scale quantum circuits remains constrained by the limitations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Vicente P. Soloviev , Antonio Márquez Romero , Josh Kirsopp , Michal Krompiec

Recent advances in quantum hardware motivate the development of algorithmic frameworks that integrate quantum sampling with classical inference. This work introduces a segmentation-based regression method tailored to quantum neural networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 James C. Hateley

Quantum computers are not yet up to the task of providing computational advantages for practical stochastic diffusion models commonly used by financial analysts. In this paper we introduce a class of stochastic processes that are both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Eric Ghysels , Jack Morgan , Hamed Mohammadbagherpoor

We study the problem of optimal traffic prediction and monitoring in large-scale networks. Our goal is to determine which subset of K links to monitor in order to "best" predict the traffic on the remaining links in the network. We consider…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Michael Kallitsis , Stilian Stoev , George Michailidis

Recent years have seen significant advances in quantum/quantum-inspired technologies capable of approximately searching for the ground state of Ising spin Hamiltonians. The promise of leveraging such technologies to accelerate the solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Robin Brown , David E. Bernal Neira , Davide Venturelli , Marco Pavone

Portfolio construction has been a long-standing topic of research in finance. The computational complexity and the time taken both increase rapidly with the number of investments in the portfolio. It becomes difficult, even impossible for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Queenie Sun , Nicholas Grablevsky , Huaizhang Deng , Pooya Azadi

Quantum algorithms for electronic-structure simulations are actively being developed, yet many hybrid quantum-classical approaches are bottlenecked by the measurement overhead associated with large molecular Hamiltonians. Here we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Benjamin Mokhtar , Noboru Inoue , Takashi Tsuchimochi

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

Recent studies in quantum machine learning advocated the use of hybrid models to assist with the limitations of the currently existing Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, but what was missing from most of them was the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Moustafa Zada

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) offers a new paradigm for addressing complex financial problems intractable for classical methods. This work specifically tackles the challenge of few-shot credit risk assessment, a critical issue in inclusive…

In this paper, we present a reproducible benchmarking framework that systematically compares QML models with architecture-matched classical counterparts across three financial tasks: (i) directional return prediction on U.S. and Turkish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Rehan Ahmad , Muhammad Kashif , Nouhaila Innan , Muhammad Shafique

Sampling from a probability distribution is a core task in many quantum and classical algorithms. Variational quantum circuits provide a natural approach to generating such distributions, as measurement outcomes directly define the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ronit Raj , Kshitij Durge , Manish Mallapur , Rohit Taeja Kumar , Ankur Raina

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for efficiently and accurately estimating Lipschitz constants in hybrid quantum-classical decision models. Our approach integrates classical neural network with quantum variational circuits to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Sajjad Hashemian , Mohammad Saeed Arvenaghi

Hybrid quantum/classical variational algorithms can be implemented on noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers and can be used to find solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. Approaches discussed in the literature minimize the…