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This paper summarizes a research program that has been underway for a decade. The objective is to find a fast and accurate scheme for solving quantum problems which does not involve a Monte Carlo algorithm. We use an alternative strategy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl M. Bender , Lawrence R. Mead , Kimball A. Milton

We investigate the quantum algorithms for dynamic programming by Ambainis et al. (SODA'19). While giving provable complexity speedups and applicable to a variety of NP-hard problems, these algorithms have a notable drawback: they require a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Susanna Caroppo , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs , Dārta Zajakina , Aleksejs Zajakins

We introduce a quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) for continuous optimization. The algorithm is based on the dynamics of a quantum system moving in an energy potential which encodes the objective function. By approximating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Guillaume Verdon , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Kamil Brádler , Nathan Killoran

Logistic regression (LR) is an important machine learning model for classification, with wide applications in text classification, image analysis and medicine diagnosis, etc. However, training LR generally entails an iterative gradient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-12 Hai-Ling Liu , Chao-Hua Yu , Yu-Sen Wu , Shi-Jie Pan , Su-Juan Qin , Fei Gao , Qiao-Yan Wen

Learning low dimensional representation is a crucial issue for many machine learning tasks such as pattern recognition and image retrieval. In this article, we present a quantum algorithm and a quantum circuit to efficiently perform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Bojia Duan , Jiabin Yuan , Juan Xu , Dan Li

Non-smooth optimization models play a fundamental role in various disciplines, including engineering, science, management, and finance. However, classical algorithms for solving such models often struggle with convergence speed,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Jiaqi Leng , Yufan Zheng , Zhiyuan Jia , Lei Fan , Chaoyue Zhao , Yuxiang Peng , Xiaodi Wu

Though quantum algorithm acts as an important role in quantum computation science, not only for providing a great vision for solving classically unsolvable problems, but also due to the fact that it gives a potential way of understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Xiang Zhan , Jian Li , Hao Qin , Zhihao Bian , Peng Xue

We present classical and quantum algorithms based on spectral methods for a problem in tensor principal component analysis. The quantum algorithm achieves a quartic speedup while using exponentially smaller space than the fastest classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 M. B. Hastings

Several attempts to dampen the curse of dimensionnality problem of the Dynamic Programming approach for solving multistage optimization problems have been investigated. One popular way to address this issue is the Stochastic Dual Dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Marianne Akian , Jean-Philippe Chancelier , Benoît Tran

We propose fast and practical quantum-inspired classical algorithms for solving linear systems. Specifically, given sampling and query access to a matrix $A\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ and a vector $b\in\mathbb{R}^m$, we propose classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Qian Zuo , Tongyang Li

This work presents a quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations of the form $\mathbf{A}{\frac{\mathbf{\partial f}}{\mathbf{\partial x}}} = \mathbf{B}\mathbf{f}$, based on the Quantum Singular Value Transformation (QSVT). The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Gal G. Shaviner , Ziv Chen , Steven H. Frankel

Motivated by the fact that the gradient-based optimization algorithms can be studied from the perspective of limiting ordinary differential equations (ODEs), here we derive an ODE representation of the accelerated triple momentum (TM)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Boya Sun , Jemin George , Solmaz Kia

There have been several research works on the hidden shift problem, quantum algorithms for the problem, and their applications. However, all the results have focused on discrete groups with discrete oracle functions. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Eunok Bae , Soojoon Lee

A diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) is a generative model renowned for its ability to produce high-quality outputs in tasks such as image and audio generation. However, training DPMs on large, high-dimensional datasets such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Yunfei Wang , Ruoxi Jiang , Yingda Fan , Xiaowei Jia , Jens Eisert , Junyu Liu , Jin-Peng Liu

A modified dynamic programming algorithm rapidly and accurately solves large 0/1 knapsack problems. It has computational O(nlogn), space O(nlogn) and predictable maximum error. Experimentally it's accuracy increases faster than linearly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Nick Dawes

The quantum dense output problem is the process of evaluating time-accumulated observables from time-dependent quantum dynamics using quantum computers. This problem arises frequently in applications such as quantum control and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Jin-Peng Liu , Lin Lin

Quantum algorithms offer significant speed-ups over their classical counterparts in various applications. In this paper, we develop quantum algorithms for the Kalman filter widely used in classical control engineering using the block…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Hao Shi , Guofeng Zhang , Ming Zhang

We introduce a new quantum optimization algorithm for dense Linear Programming problems, which can be seen as the quantization of the Interior Point Predictor-Corrector algorithm \cite{Predictor-Corrector} using a Quantum Linear System…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-15 P. A. M. Casares , M. A. Martin-Delgado

We describe a quantum algorithm for preparing states that encode solutions of non-homogeneous linear partial differential equations. The algorithm is a continuous-variable version of matrix inversion: it efficiently inverts differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Timjan Kalajdzievski , Christian Weedbrook , Seth Lloyd

A recommendation system uses the past purchases or ratings of $n$ products by a group of $m$ users, in order to provide personalized recommendations to individual users. The information is modeled as an $m \times n$ preference matrix which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 Iordanis Kerenidis , Anupam Prakash