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The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithm that offers the potential to handle combinatorial optimization problems. Introducing constraints in such combinatorial optimization…

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Quantum computing offers new heuristics for combinatorial problems. With small- and intermediate-scale quantum devices becoming available, it is possible to implement and test these heuristics on small-size problems. A candidate for such…

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Quantum computing offers an alternative paradigm for addressing combinatorial optimization problems compared to classical computing. Despite recent hardware improvements, the execution of empirical quantum optimization experiments at scales…

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is one of the canonical algorithms designed to find approximate solutions to combinatorial optimization problems in current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. It is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Ping Zou

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) can be used to solve quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems. However, the size of the solvable problem is limited by the number of qubits. To leverage noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Wending Zhao , Gaoxiang Tang

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…

Variational quantum algorithms have attracted attention for their potential to solve combinatorial optimization problems. We study how the choice of encoding affects the resource requirements and optimization behavior of a variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Linus Ekstrøm , Hao Wang , Sebastian Schmitt

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) tasks are very important in chemistry, finance, job scheduling, and so on, which can be represented using graph structures, with the variables as nodes and the interaction between them as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Yuhan Huang , Ferris Prima Nugraha , Siyuan Jin , Yichi Zhang , Bei Zeng , Qiming Shao

Quantum ant colony optimization (QACO) has drew much attention since it combines the advantages of quantum computing and ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms and overcomes some limitations of the traditional ACO algorithm. However, due…

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Modern Cloud/Edge architectures need to orchestrate multiple layers of heterogeneous computing nodes, including pervasive sensors/actuators, distributed Edge/Fog nodes, centralized data centers and quantum devices. The optimal assignment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Carlo Mastroianni , Francesco Plastina , Jacopo Settino , Andrea Vinci

In this note, we describe an experiment on portfolio optimization using the Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) formulation. The dataset we use is taken from a real-world problem for which a classical solution is currently…

Quantum computing has gained a lot of attention recently, and scientists have seen potential applications in this field using quantum computing for Cryptography and Communication to Machine Learning and Healthcare. Protein folding has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Hasan Mustafa , Sai Nandan Morapakula , Prateek Jain , Srinjoy Ganguly

Quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) is at the heart of fault-tolerant quantum computing. As the size of quantum platforms is expected to grow, one of the open questions is to design new optimal codes of ever-increasing size. A related…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Refat Ismail , Ashish Kakkar , Anatoly Dymarsky

In recent years, Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have emerged as a promising approach for solving optimization problems on quantum computers in the NISQ era. However, one limitation of VQAs is their reliance on fixed-structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Gloria Turati , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

We study quantum computing algorithms for solving certain constrained resource allocation problems we coin as Mission Covering Optimization (MCO). We compare formulations of constrained optimization problems using Quantum Annealing…

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A multi-objective logistics optimization problem from a real-world supply chain is formulated as a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization Problem (QUBO) that minimizes cost, emissions, and delivery time, while maintaining target…

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Solving real-world optimization problems with quantum computing requires choosing between a large number of options concerning formulation, encoding, algorithm and hardware. Finding good solution paths is challenging for end users and…

We investigate the performance of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) for the optimal flight gate assignment problem. This problem is a combinatorial optimization problem that aims at finding an optimal assignment of flights to the…

A black-box optimization algorithm such as Bayesian optimization finds extremum of an unknown function by alternating inference of the underlying function and optimization of an acquisition function. In a high-dimensional space, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Syun Izawa , Koki Kitai , Shu Tanaka , Ryo Tamura , Koji Tsuda

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) is an NP-optimization problem (NPO) that arises in various fields including transportation and logistics. The CVRP extends from the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), aiming to determine the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Ningyi Xie , Xinwei Lee , Dongsheng Cai , Yoshiyuki Saito , Nobuyoshi Asai , Hoong Chuin Lau