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We study algorithms inspired by quantum annealing that are suited for the NISQ era. First, we analyze approximate quantum annealing (AQA), which employs a discretized annealing ansatz in which the time step and the number of layers are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Rijul Sachdeva , Vrinda Mehta , Manpreet Singh Jattana , Kristel Michielsen , Fengping Jin

Quantum annealing is an emerging metaheuristic used for solving combinatorial optimisation problems. However, hardware based physical quantum annealers are primarily limited to a single vendor. As an alternative, we can discretise the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Ameya Bhave , Ajinkya Borle

Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is one of the most important methods in machine learning, and the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is often used to obtain maximum likelihood estimates. However, EM heavily depends on initial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Hideyuki Miyahara , Koji Tsumura , Yuki Sughiyama

We investigate the minimum edge multiway cut problem, a fundamental task in evaluating the resilience of telecommunication networks. This study benchmarks the problem across three quantum computing paradigms: quantum annealing on a D-Wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Ali Abbassi , Yann Dujardin , Eric Gourdin , Philippe Lacomme , Caroline Prodhon

Many problems of industrial interest are NP-complete, and quickly exhaust resources of computational devices with increasing input sizes. Quantum annealers (QA) are physical devices that aim at this class of problems by exploiting quantum…

Quantum annealing is a new method for finding extrema of multidimensional functions. Based on an extension of classical, simulated annealing, this approach appears robust with respect to avoiding local minima. Further, unlike some of its…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-22 A. B. Finnila , M. A. Gomez , C. Sebenik , C. Stenson , J. D. Doll

We present a comparison between the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and two widely studied competing methods, Quantum Annealing (QA) and Simulated Annealing (SA). To achieve this, we define a class of optimization problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Michael Streif , Martin Leib

Quantum annealing approximately solves combinatorial optimization problems by leveraging the principles of adiabatic quantum systems. In this approach, the system's Hamiltonian evolves from an initial general state to a problem-specific…

Quantum annealing (QA) has been proposed as a quantum enhanced optimization heuristic exploiting tunneling. Here, we demonstrate how finite range tunneling can provide considerable computational advantage. For a crafted problem designed to…

Recent advances in quantum technologies pave the way for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, where quantum approximation optimization algorithms (QAOAs) constitute promising candidates for demonstrating tangible quantum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jingjing Cui , Yifeng Xiong , Soon Xin Ng , Lajos Hanzo

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

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…

Brief description on the state of the art of some local optimization methods: Quantum annealing Quantum annealing (also known as alloy, crystallization or tempering) is analogous to simulated annealing but in substitution of thermal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Alfonso de la Fuente Ruiz

Quantum annealing is a heuristic quantum optimization algorithm that can be used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In recent years, advances in quantum technologies have enabled the development of small- and intermediate-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Sheir Yarkoni , Elena Raponi , Thomas Bäck , Sebastian Schmitt

Machine learning applications are limited by computational power. In this paper, we gain novel insights into the application of quantum annealing (QA) to machine learning (ML) through experiments in natural language processing (NLP),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 Joseph Dulny , Michael Kim

The complexity of large-scale 6G-and-beyond networks demands innovative approaches for multi-objective optimization over vast search spaces, a task often intractable. Quantum computing (QC) emerges as a promising technology for efficient…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sebastian Macaluso , Giovanni Geraci , Elías F. Combarro , Sergi Abadal , Ioannis Arapakis , Sofia Vallecorsa , Eduard Alarcón

We study quantum computing algorithms for solving certain constrained resource allocation problems we coin as Mission Covering Optimization (MCO). We compare formulations of constrained optimization problems using Quantum Annealing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Massimiliano Cutugno , Annarita Giani , Paul M. Alsing , Laura Wessing , Austars Schnore

Resource allocation of wide-area internet networks is inherently a combinatorial optimization problem that if solved quickly, could provide near real-time adaptive control of internet-protocol traffic ensuring increased network efficacy and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Arthur Witt , Jangho Kim , Christopher Körber , Thomas Luu

Quantum annealing (QA) is one of the efficient methods to calculate the ground-state energy of a problem Hamiltonian. In the absence of noise, QA can accurately estimate the ground-state energy if the adiabatic condition is satisfied.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Yuta Shingu , Tetsuro Nikuni , Shiro Kawabata , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

Quantum computing is an important developing technology with the potential to revolutionise the landscape of scientific and business problems that can be practically addressed. The widespread excitement derives from the potential for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 R. Cumming , T. Thomas