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Automation is one of the cornerstones of contemporary material discovery. Bayesian optimization (BO) is an essential part of such workflows, enabling scientists to leverage prior domain knowledge into efficient exploration of a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Agustinus Kristiadi , Felix Strieth-Kalthoff , Marta Skreta , Pascal Poupart , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Geoff Pleiss

The Research & Development (R&D) phase of drug development is a lengthy and costly process. To revolutionize this process, we introduce our new concept QMLS to shorten the whole R&D phase to three to six months and decrease the cost to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-06 Yifan Zhou , Yan Shing Liang , Yew Kee Wong , Haichuan Qiu , Yu Xi Wu , Bin He

The increasing capabilities of Machine Learning (ML) models go hand in hand with an immense amount of data and computational power required for training. Therefore, training is usually outsourced into HPC facilities, where we have started…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Sabrina Herbst , Vincenzo De Maio , Ivona Brandic

This work focuses on the limitations about the insufficient fitting capability of current quantum machine learning methods, which results from the over-reliance on a single data embedding strategy. We propose a novel quantum machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Siyu Han , Lihan Jia , Lanzhe Guo

A novel simulation strategy is proposed to search for semiconductor quantum devices which are optimized with respect to required performances. Based on evolutionary programming, a tecnique implementing the paradigm of genetic algorithms to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Guido Goldoni , Fausto Rossi

In many high-throughput experimental design settings, such as those common in biochemical engineering, batched queries are more cost effective than one-by-one sequential queries. Furthermore, it is often not possible to directly choose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Kevin K. Yang , Yuxin Chen , Alycia Lee , Yisong Yue

Quantum computing has gained a lot of attention recently, and scientists have seen potential applications in this field using quantum computing for Cryptography and Communication to Machine Learning and Healthcare. Protein folding has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Hasan Mustafa , Sai Nandan Morapakula , Prateek Jain , Srinjoy Ganguly

We present a novel quantum optimization-based route compression technique that significantly reduces storage requirements compared to conventional methods. Route optimization systems face critical challenges in efficiently storing selected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Shunsuke Sotobayashi , Yuichiro Minato , Takao Tomono

Accurate prediction of mRNA secondary structure is critical for understanding gene expression, translation efficiency, and advancing mRNA-based therapeutics. However, the combinatorial complexity of possible foldings, especially in long…

Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimization (MFBO) is a promising framework to speed up materials and molecular discovery as sources of information of different accuracies are at hand at increasing cost. Despite its potential use in chemical…

The steady progress of quantum hardware is motivating the search for novel quantum algorithm optimization strategies for near-term, real-world applications. In this study, we propose a novel feature map optimization strategy for Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Roberto Moretti , Andrea Giachero , Voica Radescu , Michele Grossi

Designing molecules that must satisfy multiple, often conflicting objectives is a central challenge in molecular discovery. The enormous size of chemical space and the cost of high-fidelity simulations have driven the development of machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-22 Madhav R. Muthyala , Farshud Sorourifar , Tianhong Tan , You Peng , Joel A. Paulson

Molecular Representation Learning is essential to solving many drug discovery and computational chemistry problems. It is a challenging problem due to the complex structure of molecules and the vast chemical space. Graph representations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Atia Hamidizadeh , Tony Shen , Martin Ester

This work introduces an approach rooted in quantum thermodynamics to enhance sampling efficiency in quantum machine learning (QML). We propose conceptualizing quantum supervised learning as a thermodynamic cooling process. Building on this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones , Daniel K. Park

We develop the framework of Indirect Query Bayesian Optimization (IQBO), a new class of Bayesian optimization problems where the integrated feedback is given via a conditional expectation of the unknown function $f$ to be optimized. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Mengyan Zhang , Shahine Bouabid , Cheng Soon Ong , Seth Flaxman , Dino Sejdinovic

The LogQ algorithm encodes Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems with exponentially fewer qubits than the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA). The advantages of conventional LogQ are accompanied by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yagnik Chatterjee , Jérémie Messud

Determining the properties of molecules and materials is one of the premier applications of quantum computing. A major question in the field is: how might we use imperfect near-term quantum computers to solve problems of practical value? We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Phillip W. K. Jensen , Peter D. Johnson , Alexander A. Kunitsa

Sample efficiency is a fundamental challenge in de novo molecular design. Ideally, molecular generative models should learn to satisfy a desired objective under minimal oracle evaluations (computational prediction or wet-lab experiment).…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-26 Jeff Guo , Philippe Schwaller

We propose an innovative Parallel Quantum Local Search (PQLS) methodology that leverages the capabilities of small-scale quantum computers to efficiently address complex combinatorial optimization problems. Traditional Quantum Local Search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Chen-Yu Liu , Kuan-Cheng Chen

With the applications of quantum computing becoming more and more widespread, finding ways that allow end users without experience in the field to apply quantum computers to solve their individual problems is becoming a crucial task.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Damian Rovara , Nils Quetschlich , Robert Wille