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Seismic inversion-including post-stack, pre-stack, and full waveform inversion is compute and memory-intensive. Recently, several approaches, including physics-informed machine learning, have been developed to address some of these…

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Network Function Virtualization (NFV) aims to simplify deployment of network services by running Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) on commercial off-the-shelf servers. Service deployment involves placement of VNFs and in-sequence routing of…

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Quantum annealing is a method developed to solve combinatorial optimization problems by utilizing quantum bits. Solving such problems corresponds to minimizing a cost function defined over binary variables. However, in many practical cases,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Seiya Endo , Shohei Kawakatsu , Hiromichi Matsuyama , Kohei Suzuki , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) facilitates the deployment of critical applications with stringent QoS requirements, latency in particular. This paper considers the problem of jointly planning the availability of computational resources…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Bin Xiang , Jocelyne Elias , Fabio Martignon , Elisabetta Di Nitto

With the advent of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), network services that traditionally run on proprietary dedicated hardware can now be realized using Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) that are hosted on general-purpose commodity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Gamal Sallam , Bo Ji

The recent emergence of the hybrid quantum-classical neural network (HQCNN) architecture has garnered considerable attention due to the potential advantages associated with integrating quantum principles to enhance various facets of machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Zuyu Xu , Kang Shen , Pengnian Cai , Tao Yang , Yuanming Hu , Shixian Chen , Yunlai Zhu , Zuheng Wu , Yuehua Dai , Jun Wang , Fei Yang

Dynamic and flexible optical networking enabled by NFV and SDN are the key technology enablers for supporting the dynamicity and bandwidth requirements of emerging 5G network services. To achieve the objective of 5G, Network Services (NSes)…

To support multiple on-demand services over fixed communication networks, network operators must allow flexible customization and fast provision of their network resources. One effective approach to this end is network virtualization,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Nan Zhang , Ya-Feng Liu , Hamid Farmanbar , Tsung-Hui Chang , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising virtualization technology that has the potential to significantly reduce the expenses and improve the service agility. NFV makes it possible for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Yicheng Xu , Vincent Chau , Chenchen Wu , Yong Zhang , Yifei Zou

The neural network and quantum computing are both significant and appealing fields, with their interactive disciplines promising for large-scale computing tasks that are untackled by conventional computers. However, both developments are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Feihong Shen , Jun Liu

Tensor network algorithms seek to minimize correlations to compress the classical data representing quantum states. Tensor network algorithms and similar tools---called tensor network methods---form the backbone of modern numerical methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Andrey Kardashin , Alexey Uvarov , Jacob Biamonte

To fend off network ossification and support high degrees of flexibility and various services, network virtualization and slicing are introduced for the next-generation wireless cellular networks. These two technologies allow diversifying…

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Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) is the core combinatorial problem of Network Slicing, a 5G technology which enables telecommunication operators to propose diverse service-dedicated virtual networks, embedded onto a common substrate network.…

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AlphaFold has achieved groundbreaking advancements in protein structure prediction, exerting profound influence across biology, medicine, and drug discovery. However, its reliance on multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is inherently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Rong Chen , Quan-Xin Mei , Wen-Ding Zhao , Lin Yao , Hao-Xiang Yang , Shun-Yao Zhang , Jiao Chen , Hong-Lin Li

Federated learning is a framework that can learn from distributed networks. It attempts to build a global model based on virtual fusion data without sharing the actual data. Nevertheless, the traditional federated learning process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Kai Yu , Fei Gao , Song Lin

The main approach to hybrid quantum-classical neural networks (QNN) is employing quantum computing to build a neural network (NN) that has quantum features, which is then optimized classically. Here, we propose a different strategy: to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Stefan-Alexandru Jura , Mihai Udrescu

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…

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a vital player of modern networks providing different types of services such as traffic optimization, content filtering, and load balancing. More precisely, NFV is a provisioning technology aims at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Abolfazl Ghazizadeh , Behzad Akbari , Mohammad Mahdi Tajiki

Combinatorial optimization (CO) problems are crucial in various scientific and industrial applications. Recently, researchers have proposed using unsupervised Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to address NP-hard combinatorial optimization…

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