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The scalable adaptive cubic regularization method ($\mathrm{ARC_{q}K}$: Dussault et al. in Math. Program. Ser. A 207(1-2): 191-225, 2024) has been recently proposed for unconstrained optimization. It has excellent convergence properties,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Yonggang Pei , Yubing Lin , Shuai Shao , Mauricio Silva Louzeiro , Detong Zhu

Quantum computing is an emerging field on the multidisciplinary interface between physics, engineering, and computer science with the potential to make a large impact on computational intelligence (CI). The aim of this paper is to introduce…

Evolutionary algorithms face significant challenges when dealing with dynamic multi-objective optimization because Pareto optimal solutions and/or Pareto optimal fronts change. This paper proposes a unified paradigm, which combines the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zhanglu Hou , Juan Zou , Gan Ruan , Yuan Liu , Yizhang Xia

Encoding combinatorial optimization problems into physically meaningful Hamiltonians with tractable energy landscapes forms the foundation of quantum optimization. Numerous works have studied such efficient encodings for the class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Sebastian Egginger , Kristina Kirova , Sonja Bruckner , Stefan Hillmich , Richard Kueng

Variational Quantum Algorithm (VQA) is a hybrid algorithm for noisy quantum devices. However, statistical fluctuations and physical noise degrade the solution quality, so it is difficult to maintain applicability for large-scale problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Hiromichi Matsuyama , Yu Yamashiro

Quantum machine learning is one of the most promising applications of a full-scale quantum computer. Over the past few years, many quantum machine learning algorithms have been proposed that can potentially offer considerable speedups over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Iordanis Kerenidis , Jonas Landman , Alessandro Luongo , Anupam Prakash

Simulated annealing (SA) is a key algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems, which model numerous real-world systems. While SA is commonly used to solve quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems, many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kohei Suzuki

We introduce a domain-specific algorithm for numerical optimization operations used by quantum circuit instantiation, synthesis, and compilation methods. QFactor uses a tensor network formulation together with analytic methods and an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Alon Kukliansky , Ed Younis , Lukasz Cincio , Costin Iancu

The K-Means clustering using LLoyd's algorithm is an iterative approach to partition the given dataset into K different clusters. The algorithm assigns each point to the cluster based on the following objective function \[\ \min…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ashish Srivastava , Mohammed Nawfal

Quantum and quantum-inspired optimisation algorithms are designed to solve problems represented in binary, quadratic and unconstrained form. Combinatorial optimisation problems are therefore often formulated as Quadratic Unconstrained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Mayowa Ayodele , Richard Allmendinger , Manuel López-Ibáñez , Matthieu Parizy

Diagnosing the minimal set of faults capable of explaining a set of given observations, e.g., from sensor readouts, is a hard combinatorial optimization problem usually tackled with artificial intelligence techniques. We present the mapping…

This paper proposes a quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) method for wireless scheduling problems. The QAOA is one of the promising hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for many applications and it provides highly accurate…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Jaeho Choi , Seunghyeok Oh , Joongheon Kim

Accurate and efficient prediction of electronic wavefunctions is central to ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and electronic structure theory. However, conventional ab initio methods require self-consistent optimization of electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Yanxian Tao , Lingyun Wan , Xiongzhi Zeng , Yingdi Jin , Jie Liu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

Hybrid quantum-classical approaches offer potential solutions to quantum chemistry problems, yet they often manifest as constrained optimization problems. Here, we explore the interconnection between constrained optimization and generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Muqing Zheng , Bo Peng , Ang Li , Xiu Yang , Karol Kowalski

We give a quantum approximation scheme (i.e., $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximation for every $\varepsilon > 0$) for the classical $k$-means clustering problem in the QRAM model with a running time that has only polylogarithmic dependence on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Ragesh Jaiswal

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithm designed to tackle combinatorial optimization problems. Despite its promise for near-term quantum applications, not much is currently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Leo Zhou , Sheng-Tao Wang , Soonwon Choi , Hannes Pichler , Mikhail D. Lukin

This paper presents a practical global optimization algorithm for the K-center clustering problem, which aims to select K samples as the cluster centers to minimize the maximum within-cluster distance. This algorithm is based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Jiayang Ren , Ningning You , Kaixun Hua , Chaojie Ji , Yankai Cao

As datasets continue to grow in size and complexity, finding succinct yet accurate data summaries poses a key challenge. Centroid-based clustering, a widely adopted approach to address this challenge, finds informative summaries of datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Martino Ciaperoni , Collin Leiber , Aristides Gionis , Heikki Mannila

We develop a method to search for the optimal code space, induced decay rates and control Hamiltonian to implement autonomous quantum error correction (AQEC) for a general open quantum system. The system is defined by a free-evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Sahel Ashhab

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…