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Combinatorial optimization problems are one of the target applications of current quantum technology, mainly because of their industrial relevance, the difficulty of solving large instances of them classically, and their equivalence to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 J. A. Montanez-Barrera , Pim van den Heuvel , Dennis Willsch , Kristel Michielsen

Current universal quantum computers have a limited number of noisy qubits. Because of this, it is difficult to use them to solve large-scale complex optimization problems. In this paper we tackle this issue by proposing a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Pablo Bermejo , Roman Orus

We extend the family of problems that may be implemented on an adiabatic quantum optimizer (AQO). When a quadratic optimization problem has at least one set of discrete controls and the constraints are linear, we call this a quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Rishabh Chandra , N. Tobias Jacobson , Jonathan E. Moussa , Steven H. Frankel , Sabre Kais

Algorithm selection is crucial in the field of optimization, as no single algorithm performs perfectly across all types of optimization problems. Finding the best algorithm among a given set of algorithms for a given problem requires a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Saba Sadeghi Ahouei , Denis Antipov , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Combinatorial optimization is a challenging problem applicable in a wide range of fields from logistics to finance. Recently, quantum computing has been used to attempt to solve these problems using a range of algorithms, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Jonathan Wurtz , Stefan Sack , Sheng-Tao Wang

Due to the increasing demand for high performance and cost reduction within the framework of complex system design, numerical optimization of computationally costly problems is an increasingly popular topic in most engineering fields. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Julien Pelamatti , Loïc Brevault , Mathieu Balesdent , El-Ghazali Talbi , Yannick Guerin

Quantum computers are expected to accelerate solving combinatorial optimization problems, including algorithms such as Grover adaptive search and quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). However, many combinatorial optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Takuya Yoshioka , Keita Sasada , Yuichiro Nakano , Keisuke Fujii

Combinatorial optimization (CO) problems arise across a broad spectrum of domains, including medicine, logistics, and manufacturing. While exact solutions are often computationally infeasible, many practical applications require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Arman Mielke , Uwe Bauknecht , Thilo Strauss , Mathias Niepert

Motivated by the need for, and growing interest in, modeling uncertainty in data, we introduce and study {\em stochastic minimum-norm optimization}. We have an underlying combinatorial optimization problem where the costs involved are {\em…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Sharat Ibrahimpur , Chaitanya Swamy

Evolutionary multi-objective algorithms have been widely shown to be successful when utilized for a variety of stochastic combinatorial optimization problems. Chance constrained optimization plays an important role in complex real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Kokila Perera , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

The paper presents a variational quantum algorithm to solve initial-boundary value problems described by second-order partial differential equations. The approach uses hybrid classical/quantum hardware that is well suited for quantum…

This paper investigates the performance of the emerging non-variational Quantum Walk-based Optimisation Algorithm (NV-QWOA) for solving small instances of the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). NV-QWOA is benchmarked against classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Andrew Freeland , Jingbo Wang

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithm that offers the potential to handle combinatorial optimization problems. Introducing constraints in such combinatorial optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Santosh Kumar Radha

We investigate the use of amplitude amplification on the gate-based model of quantum computing as a means for solving combinatorial optimization problems. This study focuses primarily on QUBO (quadratic unconstrained binary optimization)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Daniel Koch , Massimiliano Cutugno , Saahil Patel , Laura Wessing , Paul M. Alsing

In multiobjective optimization, the result of an optimization algorithm is a set of efficient solutions from which the decision maker selects one. It is common that not all the efficient solutions can be computed in a short time and the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Miguel Ángel Domínguez-Ríos , Francisco Chicano , Enrique Alba

We introduce a variational quantum solver for combinatorial optimizations over $m=\mathcal{O}(n^k)$ binary variables using only $n$ qubits, with tunable $k>1$. The number of parameters and circuit depth display mild linear and sublinear…

Quantum computing (QC) has gained popularity due to its unique capabilities that are quite different from that of classical computers in terms of speed and methods of operations. This paper proposes hybrid models and methods that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Akshay Ajagekar , Travis Humble , Fengqi You

Quantum optimization algorithms promise advantages for difficult problems but are costly to simulate and analyze on classical machines. Recently, constrained quantum optimization has been investigated through the lens of Quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Max Tschaikowski , Andrea Vandin

Variational quantum algorithms involve training parameterized quantum circuits using a classical co-processor. An important variational algorithm, designed for combinatorial optimization, is the quantum approximate optimization algorithm.…

To compute approximate solutions for combinatorial optimization problems, we describe variational methods based on the product state (PS) and matrix product state (MPS) ansatzes. We perform variational energy minimization with respect to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Guillermo Preisser , Conor Mc Keever , Michael Lubasch