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With accelerating urbanization and worsening traffic congestion, optimizing traffic signal systems to improve road throughput and alleviate congestion has become a critical issue. This study proposes a short-term traffic prediction model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-19 Shengda Zhao , Zhekun Liu , Jiaxin Yu , Bocheng Ju , Liang Wang , Xiaodong Zhang , Xinghua Zhang

The D-Wave quantum annealers make it possible to obtain high quality solutions of NP-hard problems by mapping a problem in a QUBO (quadratic unconstrained binary optimization) or Ising form to the physical qubit connectivity structure on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo Djidjev

Despite being considered as the next frontier in computation, Quantum Computing is still in an early stage of development. Indeed, current commercial quantum computers suffer from some critical restraints, such as noisy processes and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Esther Villar-Rodriguez , Eneko Osaba , Izaskun Oregi

Quantum computation offers exciting new possibilities for statistics. This paper explores the use of the D-Wave machine, a specialized type of quantum computer, which performs quantum annealing. A general description of quantum annealing…

Computation · Statistics 2019-11-21 Robert C. Foster , Brian Weaver , James Gattiker

Optimizing routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is pivotal for minimizing energy consumption and extending network lifetime. This paper introduces a resourceefficient compilation method for distributed quantum circuits tailored to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Kuan-Cheng Chen , Felix Burt , Shang Yu , Chen-Yu Liu , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Kin K. Leung

From the perspective of global warming, efficiency improvement of power grids is a pressing issue. Power grids have many switching devices to control the flow of electricity. Since there is a slight resistance in the wires and power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Masaya Takahashi , Hiroaki Nishioka , Masahiro Hirai , Hidetaka Takano

This paper investigates the application of quantum computing technology to airline gate-scheduling quadratic assignment problems (QAP). We explore the quantum computing hardware architecture and software environment required for porting…

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) is a field of operations research that is attracting growing interest due to the recent availability of quantum hardware targeted at solving QUBO problems. However, practical adoption is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Lodovica Marchesi , Amal Nasharti , Michele Marchesi

Quantum annealers, such as the device built by D-Wave Systems, Inc., offer a way to compute solutions of NP-hard problems that can be expressed in Ising or QUBO (quadratic unconstrained binary optimization) form. Although such solutions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Aaron Barbosa , Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo N. Djidjev

Quantum annealers provide an effective framework for solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. This work presents a novel methodology for training Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) by reformulating the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ernesto Acosta , Guillermo Botella , Carlos Cano

Collaborative filtering models generally perform better than content-based filtering models and do not require careful feature engineering. However, in the cold-start scenario collaborative information may be scarce or even unavailable,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Artyom Nikitin , Andrei Chertkov , Rafael Ballester-Ripoll , Ivan Oseledets , Evgeny Frolov

This paper investigates Windfarm Layout Optimization (WFLO), where we formulate turbine placement considering wake effects as a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problem. Wind energy plays a critical role in the transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 James Hancock , Matthew J. Craven , Craig McNeile , Davide Vadacchino

We present QUBO.jl, an end-to-end Julia package for working with QUBO (Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization) instances. This tool aims to convert a broad range of JuMP problems for straightforward application in many physics and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Pedro Maciel Xavier , Pedro Ripper , Tiago Andrade , Joaquim Dias Garcia , Nelson Maculan , David E. Bernal Neira

Cybersecurity in telecommunication networks often leads to hard combinatorial optimization problems that are challenging to solve with classical methods. This work investigates the practical feasibility of using quantum annealing to address…

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

Quantum annealing is a novel type of analog computation that aims to use quantum mechanical fluctuations to search for optimal solutions of Ising problems. Quantum annealing in the Transverse Ising model, implemented on D-Wave QPUs, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Elijah Pelofske

Many artificial intelligence (AI) problems naturally map to NP-hard optimization problems. This has the interesting consequence that enabling human-level capability in machines often requires systems that can handle formally intractable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Hartmut Neven , Geordie Rose , William G. Macready

Many real-world problems are naturally formulated as higher-order optimization (HUBO) tasks involving dense, multi-variable interactions, which are challenging to solve with classical methods. Quantum optimization offers a promising route,…

With the advent of novel quantum computing technologies, and the knowledge that such technology might be used to fundamentally change computing applications, a prime opportunity has presented itself to investigate the practical application…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Kevin Wils , Boyang Chen

The vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is a common optimization problem faced within the logistics industry. In this work, we explore the use of a previously-introduced qubit encoding scheme to reduce the number of binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Ioannis D. Leonidas , Alexander Dukakis , Benjamin Tan , Dimitris G. Angelakis

Problems related to wavelength assignment (WA) in optical communications networks involve allocating transmission wavelengths for known transmission paths between nodes that minimize a certain objective function, for example, the total…