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Quantum computers are devices, which allow more efficient solutions of problems as compared to their classical counterparts. As the timeline to developing a quantum-error corrected computer is unclear, the quantum computing community has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Marko J. Rančić

The 'exact subgraph' approach was recently introduced as a hierarchical scheme to get increasingly tight semidefinite programming relaxations of several NP-hard graph optimization problems. Solving these relaxations is a computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Elisabeth Gaar , Franz Rendl

Branch and bound algorithms have to cope with several additional difficulties in the multi-objective case. Not only the bounding procedure is considerably weaker, but also the handling of upper and lower bound sets requires much more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Julius Bauß , Michael Stiglmayr

We present a data-parallel software package for fitting Gaussian Approximation Potentials (GAPs) on multiple nodes using the ScaLAPACK library with MPI and OpenMP. Until now the maximum training set size for GAP models has been limited by…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-14 Sascha Klawohn , James R. Kermode , Albert P. Bartók

The matching problem between two adjacency matrices can be formulated as the NP-hard quadratic assignment problem (QAP). Previous work on semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations to the QAP have produced solutions that are often tight in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Jose F. S. Bravo Ferreira , Yuehaw Khoo , Amit Singer

Discrete variational methods show excellent performance in numerical simulations of different mechanical systems. In this paper, we introduce an iterative procedure for the solution of discrete variational equations for boundary value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Sebastián J. Ferraro , David Martín de Diego , Rodrigo Takuro Sato Martín de Almagro

State-of-the-art noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices (NISQ), although imperfect, enable computational tasks that are manifestly beyond the capabilities of modern classical supercomputers. However, present quantum computations are…

We present a method that integrates any quantum algorithm capable of finding solutions to integer linear programs into the Branch-and-Price algorithm, which is regularly used to solve large-scale integer linear programs with a specific…

Finding shape correspondences can be formulated as an NP-hard quadratic assignment problem (QAP) that becomes infeasible for shapes with high sampling density. A promising research direction is to tackle such quadratic optimization problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Marcel Seelbach Benkner , Zorah Lähner , Vladislav Golyanik , Christof Wunderlich , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

Mixed-Integer Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs arise in a variety of applications, particularly in energy, water, and gas systems, where discrete decisions interact with nonconvex quadratic constraints. These problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Ignacio Gómez-Casares , Pietro Belotti , Bissan Ghaddar , Julio González-Díaz

Quantum optimization holds promise for addressing classically intractable combinatorial problems, yet a standardized framework for benchmarking its performance, particularly in terms of solution quality, computational speed, and scalability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Monit Sharma , Hoong Chuin Lau

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is a well-known permutation-based combinatorial optimization problem with real applications in industrial and logistics environments. Motivated by the challenge that this NP-hard problem represents, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-24 Etor Arza , Aritz Perez , Ekhine Irurozki , Josu Ceberio

We propose a Jacobi-style distributed algorithm to solve convex, quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs), which arise from a broad range of applications. While small to medium-sized convex QCQPs can be solved efficiently by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Run Chen , Andrew L. Liu

Today, hardware constraints are an important limitation on quantum adiabatic optimization algorithms. Firstly, computational problems must be formulated as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) in the presence of noisy coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Andrew Lucas

Quantum computers may provide good solutions to combinatorial optimization problems by leveraging the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA). The QAOA is often presented as an algorithm for noisy hardware. However, hardware…

High dimensional unconstrained quadratic programs (UQPs) involving massive datasets are now common in application areas such as web, social networks, etc. Unless computational resources that match up to these datasets are available, solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Gugan Thoppe , Vivek S. Borkar , Dinesh Garg

We consider the problem of measuring the margin of robust feasibility of solutions to a system of nonlinear equations. We study the special case of a system of quadratic equations, which shows up in many practical applications such as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Bala Krishnamoorthy , Yunqi Luo , Benjamin Rapone

The intractability of deterministic solutions in solving $\mathcal{NP}$-Hard Combinatorial Optimisation Problems (COP) is well reported in the literature. One mechanism for overcoming this difficulty has been the use of efficient COP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Maxine T. Khumalo , Hazel A. Chieza , Krupa Prag , Matthew Woolway

Quadratic programming (QP) solvers are widely used in real-time control and optimization, but their computational cost often limits applicability in time-critical settings. To resolve this, we propose a learning-to-optimize approach using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ella J. Schmidtobreick , Daniel Arnström , Paul Häusner , Jens Sjölund

Quadratic programming (QP) is a fundamental optimization model with wide-ranging applications in decision-making and machine learning, yet efficiently solving large-scale instances remains a major computational challenge. Building upon the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Hongpei Li , Yicheng Huang , Huikang Liu , Dongdong Ge , Yinyu Ye