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Advancements in quantum computing are fuelling emerging applications across disciplines, including finance, where quantum and quantum-inspired algorithms can now make market predictions, detect fraud, and optimize portfolios. Expanding this…

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Quantum approaches to combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are often limited by the resource demands of Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) encodings, which enlarge circuits through penalty terms and increase qubit and…

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We propose a robust, scalable, integrated methodology for community detection and community comparison in graphs. In our procedure, we first embed a graph into an appropriate Euclidean space to obtain a low-dimensional representation, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-29 Vince Lyzinski , Minh Tang , Avanti Athreya , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

The joint use of node features and network topology to detect communities is called community detection in attributed networks. Most of the existing work along this line has been carried out through objective function optimization and has…

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Quantum annealers provide an effective framework for solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. This work presents a novel methodology for training Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) by reformulating the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ernesto Acosta , Guillermo Botella , Carlos Cano

Networks are useful representations of many systems with interacting entities, such as social, biological and physical systems. Characterizing the meso-scale organization, i.e. the community structure, is an important problem in network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-06 Abdullah Karaaslanli , Selin Aviyente

Neural network pruning can be formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem, yet most existing approaches rely on greedy heuristics that ignore complex interactions between filters. Formal optimization methods such as Quadratic…

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The characterization of network community structure has profound implications in several scientific areas. Therefore, testing the algorithms developed to establish the optimal division of a network into communities is a fundamental problem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-02 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín

Dynamic community detection is crucial for elucidating the temporal evolution of social structures, information dissemination, and interactive behaviors within complex networks. Nonnegative matrix factorization provides an efficient…

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Community detection is a fundamental task in data analysis, and block models provide an approach for identifying a wide variety of community structures while offering high interpretability. The degree-corrected block model (DCBM) is an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexandra Dache , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

Community detection refers to the problem of clustering the nodes of a network (either graph or hypergrah) into groups. Various algorithms are available for community detection and all these methods apply to uncensored networks. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Mingao Yuan , Bin Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhao

Identifying unknown Hamiltonians from their quantum dynamics is a pivotal challenge in quantum technologies. In this paper, we introduce Hamiltonian recognition, a framework that bridges quantum hypothesis testing and quantum metrology,…

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Community detection algorithms attempt to find the best clusters of nodes in an arbitrary complex network. Multi-scale ("multiresolution") community detection extends the problem to identify the best network scale(s) for these clusters. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

In this paper we present a novel strategy to solve optimization problems within a hybrid quantum-classical scheme based on quantum annealing, with a particular focus on QUBO problems. The proposed algorithm is based on an iterative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

Community detection in a complex network is an important problem of much interest in recent years. In general, a community detection algorithm chooses an objective function and captures the communities of the network by optimizing the…

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We introduce a qubit- and gate-efficient higher-order unconstrained binary optimization (HUBO) encoding for graph partitioning problems requiring label-count minimization. This widely applicable class of problems includes minimum graph…

The prospect of quantum solutions for complicated optimization problems is contingent on mapping the original problem onto a tractable quantum energy landscape, e.g. an Ising-type Hamiltonian. Subsequently, techniques like adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Sebastian Egginger , Kristina Kirova , Sonja Bruckner , Stefan Hillmich , Richard Kueng

It is well-known that community detection methods based on modularity optimization often fails to discover small communities. Several objective functions used for community detection therefore involve a resolution parameter that allows the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-30 Gautier Krings , Vincent D. Blondel

In experimental High-Energy Physics, unfolding refers to the problem of estimating the underlying distribution of a physical observable from detector-level data, in the presence of statistical fluctuations and systematic uncertainties.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Simone Gasperini , Gianluca Bianco , Marco Lorusso , Carla Rieger , Michele Grossi

With the development of quantum computing, the use of quantum algorithms to solve combinatorial optimization problems on quantum computers has become a major research focus. The Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) model…

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