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We introduce a classical-quantum hybrid approach to computation, allowing for a quadratic performance improvement in the decision process of a learning agent. In particular, a quantum routine is described, which encodes on a quantum…

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This paper research review Ant colony optimization (ACO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA), both are two powerful meta-heuristics. This paper explains some major defects of these two algorithm at first then proposes a new model for ACO in which,…

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Variational quantum algorithms constitute one of the most widespread methods for using current noisy quantum computers. However, it is unknown if these heuristic algorithms provide any quantum-computational speedup, although we cannot…

Combinatorial optimization problems pose significant computational challenges across various fields, from logistics to cryptography. Traditional computational methods often struggle with their exponential complexity, motivating exploration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Mateusz Slysz , Krzysztof Kurowski , Grzegorz Waligóra

Proposed hybrid algorithms encode a combinatorial cost function into a problem Hamiltonian and optimize its energy by varying over a set of states with low circuit complexity. Classical processing is typically only used for the choice of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Libor Caha , Alexander Kliesch , Robert Koenig

Genetic algorithms are heuristic optimization techniques inspired by Darwinian evolution. Quantum computation is a new computational paradigm which exploits quantum resources to speed up information processing tasks. Therefore, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Rubén Ibarrondo , Giancarlo Gatti , Mikel Sanz

Providing an optimal path to a quantum annealing algorithm is key to finding good approximate solutions to computationally hard optimization problems. Reinforcement is one of the strategies that can be used to circumvent the exponentially…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-27 Abolfazl Ramezanpour

We introduce an algorithm for combinatorial search on quantum computers that is capable of significantly concentrating amplitude into solutions for some NP search problems, on average. This is done by exploiting the same aspects of problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tad Hogg

We introduce an algorithm for combinatorial search on quantum computers that is capable of significantly concentrating amplitude into solutions for some NP search problems, on average. This is done by exploiting the same aspects of problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 T. Hogg

The Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm is a $p$ layer, time-variable split operator method executed on a quantum processor and driven to convergence by classical outer loop optimisation. The classical co-processor varies individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 D. Rabinovich , R. Sengupta , E. Campos , V. Akshay , J. Biamonte

Quantum computers promise to revolutionize our ability to simulate molecules, and cloud-based hardware is becoming increasingly accessible to a wide body of researchers. Algorithms such as Quantum Phase Estimation and the Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Kyle Sherbert , Frank Cerasoli , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

The evolution of the human society raises more and more difficult endeavors. For some of the real-life problems, the computing time-restriction enhances their complexity. The Matrix Bandwidth Minimization Problem (MBMP) seeks for a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Camelia-M. Pintea , Camelia Chira , Gloria-C. Crisan

Critical decision-making issues in science, engineering, and industry are based on combinatorial optimization; however, its application is inherently limited by the NP-hard nature of the problem. A specialized paradigm of analogue quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Rudraksh Sharma , Ravi Katukam , Arjun Nagulapally

Imaginary-time evolution has been shown to be a promising framework for tackling combinatorial optimization problems on quantum hardware. In this work, we propose a classical quantum-inspired strategy for solving combinatorial optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Erik M. Åsgrim , Ahsan Javed Awan

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a prominent swarm intelligence algorithm extensively applied to path planning. However, traditional ACO methods often exhibit shortcomings, such as blind search behavior and slow convergence within complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yi Liu , Hongda Zhang , Zhongxue Gan , Yuning Chen , Ziqing Zhou , Chunlei Meng , Chun Ouyang

Quantum metrology plays a fundamental role in many scientific areas. However, the complexity of engineering entangled probes and the external noise raise technological barriers for realizing the expected precision of the to-be-estimated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Xiaodong Yang , Xi Chen , Jun Li , Xinhua Peng , Raymond Laflamme

In seeking out an algorithm to test out the capability of the IBM Quantum Experience quantum computer, we were given a review paper covering various algorithms for solving the subset-sum problem, including both classical and quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-09 David Gunter , Toks Adedoyin

Machine learning techniques have led to broad adoption of a statistical model of computing. The statistical distributions natively available on quantum processors are a superset of those available classically. Harnessing this attribute has…

Hybrid classical quantum optimization methods have become an important tool for efficiently solving problems in the current generation of NISQ computers. These methods use an optimization algorithm executed in a classical computer, fed with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 J. Gidi , B. Candia , A. D. Muñoz-Moller , A. Rojas , L. Pereira , M. Muñoz , L. Zambrano , A. Delgado

Efficient production planning is essential in modern manufacturing to improve performance indicators such as lead time and to reduce reliance on human intuition. While mathematical optimization approaches, formulated as job shop scheduling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Kenta Sawamura , Kensuke Araki , Naoki Maruyama , Renichiro Haba , Masayuki Ohzeki
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