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Quantum annealing provides a promising route for the development of quantum optimization devices, but the usefulness of such devices will be limited in part by the range of implementable problems as dictated by hardware constraints. To…
We propose an innovative Parallel Quantum Local Search (PQLS) methodology that leverages the capabilities of small-scale quantum computers to efficiently address complex combinatorial optimization problems. Traditional Quantum Local Search…
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