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The broad applicability of Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) constitutes a general-purpose modeling framework for combinatorial optimization problems and are a required format for gate array and quantum annealing computers.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Amit Verma , Mark Lewis

As quantum computing evolves from theoretical promise to practical deployment, the demand for robust, portable, and scalable tools for quantum software experimentation is growing. This paper introduces Quantum Executor, a backend-agnostic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Giuseppe Bisicchia , Alessandro Bocci , Antonio Brogi

Quantum computing is emerging as a new computing resource that could be superior to conventional computing for certain classes of optimization problems. However, in principle, most existing approaches to quantum optimization are intended to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Chin-Yao Chang , Eric Jones , Yiyun Yao , Peter Graf , Rishabh Jain

The social worker scheduling problem is a class of combinatorial optimization problems that combines scheduling with routing issues. These types of problems with classical computing can only be solved, in the best of cases, in an…

Quantum annealing promises to solve complex combinatorial optimization problems faster than current transistor-based computer technologies. Although to date only one commercially-available quantum annealer is procurable, one can already…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-21 Helmut G. Katzgraber

Nonlinear spectroscopy is a cornerstone of quantum science, providing unique access to multi-point correlations, quantum coherence, and couplings that are invisible to linear methods. However, classical simulation of these phenomena is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Long Xiong , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiaoxia Cai , Xiao Yuan

This paper presents a system for solving binary-valued linear equations using quantum computers. The system is called Mod2VQLS, which stands for Modulo2 Variational Quantum Linear Solver. As far as we know, this is the first such proposal.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Willie Aboumrad , Dominic Widdows

Differentiable optimization has attracted significant research interest, particularly for quadratic programming (QP). Existing approaches for differentiating the solution of a QP with respect to its defining parameters often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Connor W. Magoon , Fengyu Yang , Noam Aigerman , Shahar Z. Kovalsky

The increasing scale and nonlinearity of modern energy and power system problems pose significant challenges to classical numerical solvers. In parallel, advances in quantum and quantum-inspired hardware are expected to improve scalability…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zeynab Kaseb , Matthias Moller , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) provides a versatile framework for representing NP-hard combinatorial problems, yet existing solvers often face trade-offs among speed, accuracy, and scalability. In this work, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jiecheng Yang , Ding Wang , Xiang Zhao , Hairui Zhang , Ming Gao , Lin Yang

We propose a new architecture for optimization modeling frameworks in which solvers are expressed as computation graphs in a framework like TensorFlow rather than as standalone programs built on a low-level linear algebra interface. Our new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Matt Wytock , Steven Diamond , Felix Heide , Stephen Boyd

The Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) modeling and solution framework is a requirement for quantum and digital annealers. However optimality for QUBO problems of any practical size is extremely difficult to achieve. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Amit Verma , Mark Lewis

Quantum computing provides a powerful framework for tackling computational problems that are classically intractable. The goal of this paper is to explore the use of quantum computers for solving relevant problems in systems and control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jan Schneider , Julian Berberich

The prospect of quantum solutions for complicated optimization problems is contingent on mapping the original problem onto a tractable quantum energy landscape, e.g. an Ising-type Hamiltonian. Subsequently, techniques like adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Sebastian Egginger , Kristina Kirova , Sonja Bruckner , Stefan Hillmich , Richard Kueng

Networks of optical oscillators simulating coupled Ising spins have been recently proposed as a heuristic platform to solve hard optimization problems. These networks, called coherent Ising machines (CIMs), exploit the fact that the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Marcello Calvanese Strinati , Davide Pierangeli , Claudio Conti

This paper introduces QuanUML, an extension of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) tailored for quantum software systems. QuanUML integrates quantum-specific constructs, such as qubits and quantum gates, into the UML framework, enabling the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiaoyu Guo , Shinobu Saito , Jianjun Zhao

We present a quantum compiler framework that bridges the gap between physics modeling and quantum software development. At the core of this framework is a versatile quantum circuit synthesizer capable of decomposing arbitrary Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Shoupu Wan

Quantum computing has attracted significant interest in the optimization community because it potentially can solve classes of optimization problems faster than conventional supercomputers. Several researchers proposed quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi , Ramin Fakhimi , Tamás Terlaky

We review a recent theoretical proposal for a universal quantum computing platform based on tunable nonlinear electromechanical nano-oscillators, in which qubits are encoded in the anharmonic vibrational modes of mechanical resonators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 F. Tacchino , A. Chiesa , M. D. LaHaye , I. Tavernelli , S. Carretta , D. Gerace

The paper presents a novel software framework for Association Rule Mining named uARMSolver. The framework is written fully in C++ and runs on all platforms. It allows users to preprocess their data in a transaction database, to make…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Iztok Fister , Iztok Fister