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Quantum annealers can solve QUBO problems efficiently but struggle with continuous optimization tasks like regression due to their discrete nature. We introduce Quadratic Continuous Quantum Optimization (QCQO), an anytime algorithm that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Sascha Mücke , Thore Gerlach , Nico Piatkowski

We study the effect of the anneal path control per qubit, a new user control feature offered on the D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer, on the performance of quantum annealing for solving optimization problems by numerically solving the…

Quantum annealing is an innovative idea and method for avoiding the increase of the calculation cost of the combinatorial optimization problem. Since the combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous, quantum annealing machine with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-13 Shohei Watabe , Yuya Seki , Shiro Kawabata

Quantum annealers can be used to solve many (possibly NP-hard) combinatorial optimization problems, by formulating them as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems or, equivalently, using the Ising formulation. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Alessandro Gherardi , Alberto Leporati

Quantum annealers offer an efficient way to compute high quality solutions of NP-hard problems when expressed in a QUBO (quadratic unconstrained binary optimization) or an Ising form. This is done by mapping a problem onto the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo N. Djidjev

NP-hard optimization problems scale very rapidly with problem size, becoming unsolvable with brute force methods, even with supercomputing resources. Typically, such problems have been approximated with heuristics. However, these methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Gideon Bass , Casey Tomlin , Vaibhaw Kumar , Pete Rihaczek , Joseph Dulny

Variable selection is one of the most important tasks in statistics and machine learning. To incorporate more prior information about the regression coefficients, the constrained Lasso model has been proposed in the literature. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Zengde Deng , Anthony Man-Cho So

We develop a new method for equality constrained optimization problems based on a sequential cubic programming framework. Each iteration utilizes a step decomposition based on the Jacobian of the constraints into a normal and a tangential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Nikos Dimou , Michael J. O'Neill

Quantum annealing is a quantum algorithm to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In the current quantum annealing devices, the dynamic range of the input Ising Hamiltonian, defined as the ratio of the largest to the smallest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Kentaro Ohno , Nozomu Togawa

A challenge for scalability of demand-responsive, elastic optical Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and Flexgrid networks is the computational complexity of allocating many optical routes on large networks. We demonstrate that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ethan Davies , Darren Banfield , Vlad Carare , Ben Weaver , Catherine White , Nigel Walker

Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Alberto De Marchi

Finding shape correspondences can be formulated as an NP-hard quadratic assignment problem (QAP) that becomes infeasible for shapes with high sampling density. A promising research direction is to tackle such quadratic optimization problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Marcel Seelbach Benkner , Zorah Lähner , Vladislav Golyanik , Christof Wunderlich , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

In a recent study (Ref. [1]), quantum annealing was reported to exhibit a scaling advantage for approximately solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO). However, this claim critically depends on the choice of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 J. Pawlowski , P. Tarasiuk , J. Tuziemski , L. Pawela , B. Gardas

Quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) is at the heart of fault-tolerant quantum computing. As the size of quantum platforms is expected to grow, one of the open questions is to design new optimal codes of ever-increasing size. A related…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Refat Ismail , Ashish Kakkar , Anatoly Dymarsky

This paper presents a new method to reduce the optimization of a pseudo-Boolean function to QUBO problem which can be solved by quantum annealer. The new method has two aspects, one is coefficient optimization and the other is variable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Anpeng Zhang , Xiutao Feng

The even distribution and optimization of tasks across resources and workstations is a critical process in manufacturing aimed at maximizing efficiency, productivity, and profitability, known as Robotic Assembly Line Balancing (RALB). With…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Moritz Willmann , Marcel Albus , Jan Schnabel , Marco Roth

Quantum approaches to combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are often limited by the resource demands of Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) encodings, which enlarge circuits through penalty terms and increase qubit and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Frederik Koch , Shahram Panahiyan , Rick Mukherjee , Joseph Doetsch , Dieter Jaksch

Effectively encoding inequality constraints is a primary obstacle in applying quantum algorithms to financial optimization. A quantum model for Markowitz portfolio optimization is presented that resolves this by embedding slack variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Pablo Thomassin , Guillaume Guerard , Sonia Djebali , Vincent Marc Lambert

Integer programming with block structures has received considerable attention recently and is widely used in many practical applications such as train timetabling and vehicle routing problems. It is known to be NP-hard due to the presence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Rui Wang , Chuwen Zhang , Shanwen Pu , Jianjun Gao , Zaiwen Wen

In this paper, we propose a quantum algorithm that supports a real-valued higher-order unconstrained binary optimization (HUBO) problem. This algorithm is based on the Grover adaptive search that originally supported HUBO with integer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Masaya Norimoto , Ryuhei Mori , Naoki Ishikawa