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Quantum annealing has the potential to find low energy solutions of NP-hard problems that can be expressed as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems. However, the hardware of the quantum annealer manufactured by D-Wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo N. Djidjev

Planning long-horizon robot manipulation requires making discrete decisions about which objects to interact with and continuous decisions about how to interact with them. A robot planner must select grasps, placements, and motions that are…

Tai256c is the largest unsolved quadratic assignment problem (QAP) instance in QAPLIB. It is known that QAP tai256c can be converted into a 256 dimensional binary quadratic optimization problem (BQOP) with a single cardinality constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Koichi Fujii , Sunyoung Kim , Masakazu Kojima , Hans D. Mittelmann , Yuji Shinano

A range of quantum algorithms, especially those leveraging variational parameterization and circuit-based optimization, are being studied as alternatives for solving classically intractable combinatorial optimization problems (COPs).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Monit Sharma , Hoong Chuin Lau

We propose the novel p-branch-and-bound method for solving two-stage stochastic programming problems whose deterministic equivalents are represented by non-convex mixed-integer quadratically constrained quadratic programming (MIQCQP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Nikita Belyak , Fabricio Oliveira

Quadratic assignment problems (QAPs) arise in a wide variety of domains, ranging from operations research to graph theory to computer vision to neuroscience. In the age of big data, graph valued data is becoming more prominent, and with it,…

We present new algorithms for the parallelization of Eulerian-Lagrangian interaction operations in the immersed boundary method. Our algorithms rely on two well-studied parallel primitives: key-value sort and segmented reduce. The use of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Andrew Kassen , Varun Shankar , Aaron L Fogelson

Matching problems on 3D shapes and images are challenging as they are frequently formulated as combinatorial quadratic assignment problems (QAPs) with permutation matrix constraints, which are NP-hard. In this work, we address such problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Marcel Seelbach Benkner , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

This paper presents a method to certify the computational complexity of a standard Branch and Bound method for solving Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP) problems defined as instances of a multi-parametric MIQP. Beyond previous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Shamisa Shoja , Daniel Arnström , Daniel Axehill

Sequential quadratic programming (SQP) is widely used in solving nonlinear optimization problem, with advantages of warm-starting solutions, as well as finding high-accurate solution and converging quadratically using second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Bowen Li , Michel Schanen , Kibaek Kim

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is one of the most difficult combinatorial optimization problems. One of the most powerful and commonly used heuristics to obtain approximations to the optimal solution of the QAP is simulated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Gerald Paul

Quantum computing is a promising technology to address combinatorial optimization problems, for example via the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). Its potential, however, hinges on scaling toy problems to sizes relevant for…

In the first part of this work [32], we introduce a convex parabolic relaxation for quadratically-constrained quadratic programs, along with a sequential penalized parabolic relaxation algorithm to recover near-optimal feasible solutions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Ramtin Madani , Mersedeh Ashraphijuo , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Alper Atamturk

In computer vision, many problems such as image segmentation, pixel labelling, and scene parsing can be formulated as binary quadratic programs (BQPs). For submodular problems, cuts based methods can be employed to efficiently solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Philip H. S. Torr

Combinatorial optimization is considered a promising class of problems in which quantum computers can show significant advantages. However, problems of practical relevance typically have more variables than current or foreseeable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Mathias Schmid , Naeimeh Mohseni , Michael J. Hartmann

We propose an approach to solving constrained combinatorial optimization problems based on embedding the concept of Lagrangian duality into the framework of adiabatic quantum computation. Within the setting of circuit-model fault-tolerant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Einar Gabbassov , Gili Rosenberg , Artur Scherer

The MaxCut problem is a fundamental problem in Combinatorial Optimization, with significant implications across diverse domains such as logistics, network design, and statistical physics. The algorithm represents innovative approaches that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Paulo A. Viana , Fernando M. de Paula Neto

Quadratic programming (QP) forms a crucial foundation in optimization, encompassing a broad spectrum of domains and serving as the basis for more advanced algorithms. Consequently, as the scale and complexity of modern applications continue…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Augustinos D. Saravanos , Hunter Kuperman , Alex Oshin , Arshiya Taj Abdul , Vincent Pacelli , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that is at the core of many real-world optimization problems. We prove that QAP can be written as the sum of three elementary landscapes when…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-10-27 Francisco Chicano , Gabriel Luque , Enrique Alba

Research into the development of special-purpose computing architectures designed to solve quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems has flourished in recent years. It has been demonstrated in the literature that such…