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A challenge for scalability of demand-responsive, elastic optical Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and Flexgrid networks is the computational complexity of allocating many optical routes on large networks. We demonstrate that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ethan Davies , Darren Banfield , Vlad Carare , Ben Weaver , Catherine White , Nigel Walker

Recent advancements in quantum annealing hardware and numerous studies in this area suggests that quantum annealers have the potential to be effective in solving unconstrained binary quadratic programming problems. Naturally, one may desire…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Sahar Karimi , Pooya Ronagh

In wireless communication networks, it is difficult to solve many NP-hard problems owing to computational complexity and high cost. Recently, quantum annealing (QA) based on quantum physics was introduced as a key enabler for solving…

Quantum technology is maturing to the point where quantum devices, such as quantum communication systems, quantum random number generators and quantum simulators, may be built with capabilities exceeding classical computers. A quantum…

Feature selection is a common step in many ranking, classification, or prediction tasks and serves many purposes. By removing redundant or noisy features, the accuracy of ranking or classification can be improved and the computational cost…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Fabio Moroni , Riccardo Nembrini , Nicola Ferro , Guglielmo Faggioli , Paolo Cremonesi

Recent advances in quantum technology have led to the development and manufacturing of experimental programmable quantum annealers that promise to solve certain combinatorial optimization problems of practical relevance faster than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Itay Hen , Federico M. Spedalieri

Quantum annealing is a heuristic optimization algorithm that exploits quantum evolution to approximately find lowest energy states. Quantum annealers have scaled up in recent years to tackle increasingly larger and more highly connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Humberto Munoz Bauza , Daniel A. Lidar

Variational quantum circuits for image classification suffer from barren plateaus, while quantum kernel methods scale quadratically with dataset size. We propose an iterative framework based on Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Mostafa Atallah , Rebekah Herrman

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is considered to be one of the most promising applications of near term quantum devices. However, the optimization of quantum machine learning models presents numerous challenges arising from the imperfections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Owen Lockwood

The even distribution and optimization of tasks across resources and workstations is a critical process in manufacturing aimed at maximizing efficiency, productivity, and profitability, known as Robotic Assembly Line Balancing (RALB). With…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Moritz Willmann , Marcel Albus , Jan Schnabel , Marco Roth

Recent work has shown that quantum annealing for machine learning, referred to as QAML, can perform comparably to state-of-the-art machine learning methods with a specific application to Higgs boson classification. We propose QAML-Z, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Alexander Zlokapa , Alex Mott , Joshua Job , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Daniel Lidar , Maria Spiropulu

Training quantum neural networks (QNNs) using gradient-based or gradient-free classical optimisation approaches is severely impacted by the presence of barren plateaus in the cost landscapes. In this paper, we devise a framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Yidong Liao , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Chris Ferrie

Quantum Annealing, or Quantum Stochastic Optimization, is a classical randomized algorithm which provides good heuristics for the solution of hard optimization problems. The algorithm, suggested by the behaviour of quantum systems, is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-06 Diego de Falco , Dario Tamascelli

We review here the recent success in quantum annealing, i.e., optimization of the cost or energy functions of complex systems utilizing quantum fluctuations. The concept is introduced in successive steps through the studies of mapping of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 Arnab Das , Bikas K. Chakrabarti

Training of machine learning models consumes large amounts of energy. Since the energy consumption becomes a major problem in the development and implementation of artificial intelligence systems there exists a need to investigate the ways…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Dawid Mazur , Tomasz Rybotycki , Piotr Gawron

High-energy physics is replete with hard computational problems and it is one of the areas where quantum computing could be used to speed up calculations. We present an implementation of likelihood-based regularized unfolding on a quantum…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-10-09 Kyle Cormier , Riccardo Di Sipio , Peter Wittek

Quantum annealers, such as the device built by D-Wave Systems, Inc., offer a way to compute solutions of NP-hard problems that can be expressed in Ising or QUBO (quadratic unconstrained binary optimization) form. Although such solutions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Aaron Barbosa , Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo N. Djidjev

The development of quantum computational techniques has advanced greatly in recent years, parallel to the advancements in techniques for deep reinforcement learning. This work explores the potential for quantum computing to facilitate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Owen Lockwood , Mei Si

Quantum annealing is a meta-heuristic approach tailored to solve combinatorial optimization problems with quantum annealers. In this tutorial, we provide a fundamental and comprehensive introduction to quantum annealing and modern data…

The Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) model has gained prominence in recent years with the discovery that it unifies a rich variety of combinatorial optimization problems. By its association with the Ising problem in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Fred Glover , Gary Kochenberger , Yu Du