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This paper addresses the Bi-Objective Traveling Thief Problem (BI-TTP), a challenging multi-objective optimization problem that requires the simultaneous optimization of travel cost and item profit. Conventional methods for the BI-TTP often…

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Graph partitioning is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem that attracts a lot of attention from theoreticians and practitioners due to its broad applications. From multilevel graph partitioning to more general-purpose…

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Quantum annealing has the potential to find low energy solutions of NP-hard problems that can be expressed as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems. However, the hardware of the quantum annealer manufactured by D-Wave…

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Quantum annealing is a heuristic algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems, and D-Wave Systems Inc. has developed hardware for implementing this algorithm. The current version of the D-Wave quantum annealer can solve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Shuntaro Okada , Masayuki Ohzeki , Shinichiro Taguchi

Quantum annealing has great promise in leveraging quantum mechanics to solve combinatorial optimisation problems. However, to realize this promise to it's fullest extent we must appropriately leverage the underlying physics. In this spirit,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-10 Nicholas Chancellor

This paper presents the details and testing of two implementations (in C++ and Python) of the hybrid quantum-classical algorithm Quantum Annealing Learning Search (QALS) on a D-Wave quantum annealer. QALS was proposed in 2019 as a novel…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Andrea Bonomi , Thomas De Min , Enrico Zardini , Enrico Blanzieri , Valter Cavecchia , Davide Pastorello

Quantum annealing has shown significant potential as an approach to near-term quantum computing. Despite promising progress towards obtaining a quantum speedup, quantum annealers are limited by the need to embed problem instances within the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Alastair A. Abbott , Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Richard Hua

We present Learning-Driven Annealing (LDA), a framework that links individual quantum annealing evolutions into a global solution strategy to mitigate hardware constraints such as short annealing times and integrated control errors. Unlike…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Sebastian Schulz , Dennis Willsch , Kristel Michielsen

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

Traffic congestion is one of the major issues in urban areas, particularly when traffic loads exceed the roads capacity, resulting in higher petrol consumption and carbon emissions as well as delays and stress for road users. In Asia, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Amit Singh , Chun-Yu Lin , Chung-I Huang , Fang-Pang Lin

Quantum annealing (QA) is a heuristic search algorithm that can run on Adiabatic Quantum Computation (AQC) processors to solve combinatorial optimization problems. Although theoretical studies and simulations on classic hardware have shown…

Data flow scheduling for high-throughput multibeam satellites is a challenging NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. As the problem scales, traditional methods, such as Mixed-Integer Linear Programming and heuristic schedulers, often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Qiben Yan , John P. T. Stenger , Daniel Gunlycke

D-Wave quantum annealers offer reverse annealing as a feature allowing them to refine solutions to optimization problems. This paper investigates the influence of key parameters, such as annealing times and reversal distance, on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Vrinda Mehta , Hans De Raedt , Kristel Michielsen , Fengping Jin

The recent emergence of novel computational devices, such as quantum computers, coherent Ising machines, and digital annealers presents new opportunities for hardware-accelerated hybrid optimization algorithms. Unfortunately, demonstrations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Yuchen Pang , Carleton Coffrin , Andrey Y. Lokhov , Marc Vuffray

A recent Google study [Phys. Rev. X, 6:031015 (2016)] compared a D-Wave 2X quantum processing unit (QPU) to two classical Monte Carlo algorithms: simulated annealing (SA) and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC). The study showed the D-Wave 2X to be…

Optimizing high-degree of freedom robotic manipulators requires searching complex, high-dimensional configuration spaces, a task that is computationally challenging for classical methods. This paper introduces a quantum native framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hassen Nigatu , Shi Gaokun , Li Jituo , Wang Jin , Lu Guodong , Howard Li

Adiabatic quantum computing has evolved in recent years from a theoretical field into an immensely practical area, a change partially sparked by D-Wave System's quantum annealing hardware. These multimillion-dollar quantum annealers offer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 Timothy D. Goodrich , Travis S. Humble , Blair D. Sullivan

We propose a novel hybrid quantum-classical approach to calculate Graver bases, which have the potential to solve a variety of hard linear and non-linear integer programs, as they form a test set (optimality certificate) with very appealing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Hedayat Alghassi , Raouf Dridi , Sridhar Tayur

In solving optimization problems, objective functions generally need to be minimized or maximized. However, objective functions cannot always be formulated explicitly in a mathematical form for complicated problem settings. Although several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-20 Ami S. Koshikawa , Masayuki Ohzeki , Tadashi Kadowaki , Kazuyuki Tanaka

In recent years, there is a growing interest in using quantum computers for solving combinatorial optimization problems. In this work, we developed a generic, machine learning-based framework for mapping continuous-space inverse design…