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Many claims of computational advantages have been made for quantum computing over classical, but they have not been demonstrated for practical problems. Here, we present algorithms for solving time-dependent PDEs, with particular reference…

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Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is very important in image compression. Classical 1-D DCT and 2-D DCT has time complexity O(NlogN) and O(N²logN) respectively. This paper presents a quantum DCT iteration, and constructs a quantum 1-D…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chao Yang Pang , Zheng Wei Zhou , Guang Can Guo

We study the problem of designing \emph{sublinear spectral clustering oracles} for well-clusterable graphs. Such an oracle is an algorithm that, given query access to the adjacency list of a graph $G$, first constructs a compact data…

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Rydberg atom arrays are a promising platform for quantum optimization, encoding computationally hard problems by reducing them to independent set problems with unit-disk graph topology. In Nguyen et al., PRX Quantum 4, 010316 (2023), a…

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Hybrid circuit and packet switching for data center networking (DCN) has received considerable research attention recently. A hybrid-switched DCN employs a much faster circuit switch that is reconfigurable with a nontrivial cost, and a much…

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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…

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Divide-and-conquer is a central paradigm for the design of algorithms, through which some fundamental computational problems, such as sorting arrays and computing convex hulls, are solved in optimal time within $\Theta(n\log{n})$ in the…

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We present a polynomial time algorithm to approximately scale tensors of any format to arbitrary prescribed marginals (whenever possible). This unifies and generalizes a sequence of past works on matrix, operator and tensor scaling. Our…

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We design the first subexponential-time (parameterized) algorithms for several cut and cycle-hitting problems on $H$-minor free graphs. In particular, we obtain the following results (where $k$ is the solution-size parameter). 1.…

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The closest pair problem is a fundamental problem of computational geometry: given a set of $n$ points in a $d$-dimensional space, find a pair with the smallest distance. A classical algorithm taught in introductory courses solves this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Scott Aaronson , Nai-Hui Chia , Han-Hsuan Lin , Chunhao Wang , Ruizhe Zhang

Combinatorial optimization problems that arise in science and industry typically have constraints. Yet the presence of constraints makes them challenging to tackle using both classical and quantum optimization algorithms. We propose a new…

Eker{\aa} and H{\aa}stad have introduced a variation of Shor's algorithm for the discrete logarithm problem (DLP). Unlike Shor's original algorithm, Eker{\aa}-H{\aa}stad's algorithm solves the short DLP in groups of unknown order. In this…

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In many practical applications, quantum algorithms require several qubits, significantly more than those available with current noisy intermediate-scale quantum processors. Distributed quantum computing (DQC) is considered a scalable…

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In this paper, we intend to study the geometric meaning of the discrete logarithm problem defined over an Elliptic Curve. The key idea is to reduce the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (EC-DLP) into a system of equations. These…

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This paper implements a quantum greedy optimization algorithm based on the discretization of time evolution (d-QGO). Quantum greedy optimization, which was originally developed for reducing processing time via counterdiabatic driving,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Tadayoshi Matsumori , Tadashi Kadowaki

We study optimization programs given by a bilinear form over non-commutative variables subject to linear inequalities. Problems of this form include the entangled value of two-prover games, entanglement-assisted coding for classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 Mario Berta , Omar Fawzi , Volkher B. Scholz

Given a large dataset of many tuples, it is hard for users to pick out their preferred tuples. Thus, the preference query problem, which is to find the most preferred tuples from a dataset, is widely discussed in the database area. In this…

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Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental unsupervised machine learning task with the aim of organizing data into a hierarchy of clusters. Many applications of hierarchical clustering involve sensitive user information, therefore motivating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Jalaj Upadhyay , Chen Wang , Samson Zhou

Adiabatic quantum optimization is a procedure to solve a vast class of optimization problems by slowly changing the Hamiltonian of a quantum system. The evolution time necessary for the algorithm to be successful scales inversely with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Salvatore Mandrà , Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Emerging quantum processors provide an opportunity to explore new approaches for solving traditional problems in the post Moore's law supercomputing era. However, the limited number of qubits makes it infeasible to tackle massive real-world…