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The design of quantum circuits is currently driven by the specific objectives of the quantum algorithm in question. This approach thus relies on a significant manual effort by the quantum algorithm designer to design an appropriate circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Ankit Kulshrestha , Xiaoyuan Liu , Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa , Ilya Safro

In this work, a non-gaited framework for legged system locomotion is presented. The approach decouples the gait sequence optimization by considering the problem as a decision-making process. The redefined contact sequence problem is solved…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Lorenzo Amatucci , Joon-Ha Kim , Jemin Hwangbo , Hae-Won Park

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a family of sampling-based search algorithms widely used for online planning in sequential decision-making domains and at the heart of many recent advances in artificial intelligence. Understanding the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yiyu Qian , Tim Miller , Zheng Qian , Liyuan Zhao

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is an immensely popular search-based framework used for decision making. It is traditionally applied to domains where a perfect simulation model of the environment is available. We study and improve MCTS in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Farnaz Kohankhaki , Kiarash Aghakasiri , Hongming Zhang , Ting-Han Wei , Chao Gao , Martin Müller

Nonstabilizerness, commonly referred to as magic, is a fundamental resource underpinning quantum advantage. In this paper, we propose a magic-informed quantum architecture search (QAS) technique that enables control over a quantum resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Vincenzo Lipardi , Domenica Dibenedetto , Georgios Stamoulis , Mark H. M. Winands

In this work we study a well-known and challenging problem of Multi-agent Pathfinding, when a set of agents is confined to a graph, each agent is assigned a unique start and goal vertices and the task is to find a set of collision-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Yelisey Pitanov , Alexey Skrynnik , Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov

When trying to use quantum-enhanced methods for optimization problems, the sheer number of options inhibits its adoption by industrial end users. Expert knowledge is required for the formulation and encoding of the use case, the selection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Benedikt Poggel , Xiomara Runge , Adelina Bärligea , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

Hamiltonian simulation is one of the most promising paths toward quantum advantage. Most prior approaches to Hamiltonian simulation circuit synthesis focus on local rewrite rules and low-level optimizations, and give limited attention to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Mulundano Machiya , Matt Menickelly , Paul Hovland , Ji Liu

Quantum architecture search (QAS) is the process of automating architecture engineering of quantum circuits. It has been desired to construct a powerful and general QAS platform which can significantly accelerate current efforts to identify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Hong Yao

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are expected to be a path to quantum advantages on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. However, both empirical and theoretical results exhibit that the deployed ansatz heavily affects the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Yuxuan Du , Tao Huang , Shan You , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Dacheng Tao

Variational quantum algorithms, inspired by neural networks, have become a novel approach in quantum computing. However, designing efficient parameterized quantum circuits remains a challenge. Quantum architecture search tackles this by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Haozhen Situ , Zhimin He , Shenggen Zheng , Lvzhou Li

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are a promising approach to leverage Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. However, choosing optimal quantum circuits that efficiently solve a given VQA problem is a non-trivial task.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Swagat Kumar , Jan-Nico Zaech , Colin Michael Wilmott , Luc Van Gool

Quantum computers have the potential to outperform classical computers in important tasks such as optimization and number factoring. They are characterized by limited connectivity, which necessitates the routing of their computational bits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Wei Tang , Yiheng Duan , Yaroslav Kharkov , Rasool Fakoor , Eric Kessler , Yunong Shi

In this study, we explore the efficiency of the Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), a prominent decision-making algorithm renowned for its effectiveness in complex decision environments, contingent upon the volume of simulations conducted.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ye Zhang , Mengran Zhu , Kailin Gui , Jiayue Yu , Yong Hao , Haozhan Sun

Designing compact and accurate circuits for the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a central challenge in near-term quantum chemistry. Existing adaptive methods such as ADAPT-VQE design circuits by iteratively selecting operators from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Jianpeng Chen , Zirui Sheng , Cunxi Gong , Weitang Li

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) constitute a prominent framework for exploring the capabilities of near-term quantum computers. As the effectiveness of VQAs depends heavily on the design of variational quantum circuits, Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Haozhen Situ , Zhimin He , Lvzhou Li

Planning problems are among the most important and well-studied problems in artificial intelligence. They are most typically solved by tree search algorithms that simulate ahead into the future, evaluate future states, and back-up those…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Arthur Guez , Théophane Weber , Ioannis Antonoglou , Karen Simonyan , Oriol Vinyals , Daan Wierstra , Rémi Munos , David Silver

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) typically uses multi-armed bandit (MAB) strategies designed to minimize cumulative regret, such as UCB1, as its selection strategy. However, in the root node of the search tree, it is more sensible to minimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Dominic Sagers , Mark H. M. Winands , Dennis J. N. J. Soemers

Variational quantum circuits are one of the promising ways to exploit the advantages of quantum computing in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum technology era. The design of the quantum circuit architecture might greatly affect the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Gang Wang , Bang-Hai Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

Classical Monte Carlo algorithms can theoretically be sped up on a quantum computer by employing amplitude estimation (AE). To realize this, an efficient implementation of state-dependent functions is crucial. We develop a straightforward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Mark-Oliver Wolf , Tom Ewen , Ivica Turkalj