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In a simple, undirected graph G, an edge 2-coloring is a coloring of the edges such that no vertex is incident to edges with more than 2 distinct colors. The problem maximum edge 2-coloring (ME2C) is to find an edge 2-coloring in a graph G…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Tobias Mömke , Alexandru Popa , Aida Roshany-Tabrizi , Michael Ruderer , Roland Vincze

Realizing quantum speedup for practically relevant, computationally hard problems is a central challenge in quantum information science. Using Rydberg atom arrays with up to 289 qubits in two spatial dimensions, we experimentally…

While stabilizer tableaus have proven exceptionally useful as a descriptive tool for additive quantum codes, they offer little guidance for concrete constructions or coding algorithm analysis. We introduce a representation of stabilizer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Andrey Boris Khesin

Many computational problems are unchanged under some symmetry operation. In classical machine learning, this can be reflected with the layer structure of the neural network. In quantum machine learning, the ansatz can be tuned to correspond…

Modern quantum annealers can find high-quality solutions to combinatorial optimisation objectives given as quadratic unconstrained binary optimisation (QUBO) problems. Unfortunately, obtaining suitable QUBO forms in computer vision remains…

We study the maximization version of the fundamental graph coloring problem. Here the goal is to color the vertices of a k-colorable graph with k colors so that a maximum fraction of edges are properly colored (i.e. their endpoints receive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ali Kemal Sinop

A local algorithm is a distributed algorithm that completes after a constant number of synchronous communication rounds. We present local approximation algorithms for the minimum dominating set problem and the maximum matching problem in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-02 Matti Åstrand , Valentin Polishchuk , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto

Cybersecurity in telecommunication networks often leads to hard combinatorial optimization problems that are challenging to solve with classical methods. This work investigates the practical feasibility of using quantum annealing to address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Ali Abbassi , Yann Dujardin , Eric Gourdin , Philippe Lacomme , Caroline Prodhon

We propose a novel variational method for solving the sub-graph isomorphism problem on a gate-based quantum computer. The method relies (1) on a new representation of the adjacency matrices of the underlying graphs, which requires a number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Nicola Mariella , Andrea Simonetto

Recent breakthroughs in graph streaming have led to the design of single-pass semi-streaming algorithms for various graph coloring problems such as $(\Delta+1)$-coloring, degeneracy-coloring, coloring triangle-free graphs, and others. These…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sepehr Assadi , Andrew Chen , Glenn Sun

The classical Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm aka color refinement is fundamental for graph learning with kernels and neural networks. Originally developed for graph isomorphism testing, the algorithm iteratively refines vertex colors. On many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Franka Bause , Nils M. Kriege

I describe how real quantum annealers may be used to perform local (in state space) searches around specified states, rather than the global searches traditionally implemented in the quantum annealing algorithm. Such protocols will have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-26 Nicholas Chancellor

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

The study of graph vertex colorability from an algebraic perspective has introduced novel techniques and algorithms into the field. For instance, it is known that $k$-colorability of a graph $G$ is equivalent to the condition $1 \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-24 Christopher J. Hillar , Troels Windfeldt

We solve the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in several scenarios using the quantum annealer provided by the D-Wave systems within a pseudospectral scheme, where its solution is encoded into certain set of suitable basis functions. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Aigerim Bazarkhanova , Alejandro J. Castro , Antonio A. Valido

Early but promising results in quantum computing have been enabled by the concurrent development of quantum algorithms, devices, and materials. Classical simulation of quantum programs has enabled the design and analysis of algorithms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Bo Fang , M. Yusuf Özkaya , Ang Li , Ümit V. Çatalyürek , Sriram Krishnamoorthy

We investigate an efficient, generic method for evaluating the performance of quantum annealing devices that does not require the prior knowledge of the true ground state of the benchmark problem. This approach exploits symmetry properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Dilina Perera , Bhavika Bhalgamiya , M. A. Novotny

One method to obtain a proper vertex coloring of graphs using a reasonable number of colors is to start from any arbitrary proper coloring and then repeat some local re-coloring techniques to reduce the number of color classes. The Grundy…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Manouchehr Zaker

Quantum(-inspired) annealers show promise in solving combinatorial optimisation problems in practice. There has been extensive researches demonstrating the utility of D-Wave quantum annealer and quantum-inspired annealer, i.e., Fujitsu…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Tian Huang , Jun Xu , Tao Luo , Xiaozhe Gu , Rick Goh , Weng-Fai Wong

The application of quantum annealing to the optimization of continuous-variable functions is a relatively unexplored area of research. We test the performance of quantum annealing applied to a one-dimensional continuous-variable function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Shunta Arai , Hiroki Oshiyama , Hidetoshi Nishimori