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We introduce an algorithm for combinatorial search on quantum computers that is capable of significantly concentrating amplitude into solutions for some NP search problems, on average. This is done by exploiting the same aspects of problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 T. Hogg

In this thesis we develop FPTASs for the counting problems of m-tuples, contingency tables with two rows, and 0/1 knapsack. For the problem of counting m-tuples, we design two algorithms, one is strongly polynomial. As far as we know, these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Tzvi Alon

A binary constant weight code is a type of error-correcting code with a wide range of applications. The problem of finding a binary constant weight code has long been studied as a combinatorial optimization problem in coding theory. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Kein Yukiyoshi , Naoki Ishikawa

Considering the noise level limit, one crucial aspect for quantum machine learning is to design a high-performing variational quantum circuit architecture with small number of quantum gates. As the classical neural architecture search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Jialin Chen , Zhiqiang Cai , Ke Xu , Di Wu , Wei Cao

We present a new hybrid, local search algorithm for quantum approximate optimization of constrained combinatorial optimization problems. We focus on the Maximum Independent Set problem and demonstrate the ability of quantum local search to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Teague Tomesh , Zain H. Saleem , Martin Suchara

Quantum Computing is an emerging paradigm which is gathering a lot of popularity in the current scientific and technological community. Widely conceived as the next frontier of computation, Quantum Computing is still at the dawn of its…

Unstructured search remains as one of the significant challenges in computer science, as classical search algorithms become increasingly impractical for large-scale systems due to their linear time complexity. Quantum algorithms, notably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Harishankar Mishra , Asvija Balasubramanyam , Gudapati Naresh Raghava

This paper presents a quantum search approach to combinatorial constraint satisfaction problems, demonstrated through the generation of magic squares. We reformulate magic square construction as a quantum search problem in which a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Rituparna R , Harsha Varthini , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

The "0-1 knapsack problem" stands as a classical combinatorial optimization conundrum, necessitating the selection of a subset of items from a given set. Each item possesses inherent values and weights, and the primary objective is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mohammad Saleh Vahdatpour

With the advent of powerful quantum computers, the quest for more efficient quantum algorithms becomes crucial in attaining quantum supremacy over classical counterparts in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era. While Grover's search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Junpeng Zhan

In this work, we provide the first QFT-free algorithm for Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE) that is asymptotically optimal while maintaining the leading numerical performance. QAE algorithms appear as a subroutine in many applications for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Shion Fukuzawa , Christopher Ho , Sandy Irani , Jasen Zion

Grover's quantum search and its generalization, quantum amplitude amplification, provide quadratic advantage over classical algorithms for a diverse set of tasks, but are tricky to use without knowing beforehand what fraction $\lambda$ of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Theodore J. Yoder , Guang Hao Low , Isaac L. Chuang

We consider the problem of search of an unstructured list for a marked element, when one is given advice as to where this element might be located, in the form of a probability distribution. The goal is to minimise the expected number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Ashley Montanaro

Quantum architecture search (QAS) is desired to construct a powerful and general QAS platform which can significantly accelerate quantum advantages in error-prone and depth limited quantum circuits in today Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Anqi Zhang , Shengmei Zhao

The performance of Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) strongly depends on the choice of the parameterized quantum circuit to optimize. One of the biggest challenges in VQAs is designing quantum circuits tailored to the particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Vincenzo Lipardi , Domenica Dibenedetto , Georgios Stamoulis , Mark H. M. Winands

Evolutionary algorithms are well suited for solving the knapsack problem. Some empirical studies claim that evolutionary algorithms can produce good solutions to the 0-1 knapsack problem. Nonetheless, few rigorous investigations address the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Jun He , Boris Mitavskiy , Yuren Zhou

Recent advances in quantum computing systems attract tremendous attention. Commercial companies, such as IBM, Amazon, and IonQ, have started to provide access to noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. Researchers and entrepreneurs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Wenrui Mu , Ying Mao , Long Cheng , Qingle Wang , Weiwen Jiang , Pin-Yu Chen

As quantum computing advances, quantum approximate optimization algorithms (QAOA) have shown promise in addressing combinatorial optimization problems. However, the limitations of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices hinder the…

Quantum Amplitude Amplification (QAA), the generalization of Grover's algorithm, is capable of yielding optimal solutions to combinatorial optimization problems with high probabilities. In this work we extend the conventional 2-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Daniel Koch , Brian Pardo , Kip Nieman

In this paper, we present a novel formulation of traditional sampling-based motion planners as database-oracle structures that can be solved via quantum search algorithms. We consider two complementary scenarios: for simpler sparse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Paul Lathrop , Beth Boardman , Sonia Martínez