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Tensor ring (TR) decomposition is a simple but effective tensor network for analyzing and interpreting latent patterns of tensors. In this work, we propose a doubly randomized optimization framework for computing TR decomposition. It can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Yajie Yu , Hanyu Li , Jingchun Zhou

Tensor network methods provide a scalable solution to represent high-dimensional data. However, their efficacy is often limited by static, expert-defined structures that fail to adapt to evolving data correlations. We address this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zheng Guo , Aditya Deshpande , Xinyu Wang , Brian C. Kiedrowski , Alex A. Gorodetsky

A non-Hermitian quantum optimization algorithm is created and used to find the ground state of an antiferromagnetic Ising chain. We demonstrate analytically and numerically (for up to N=1024 spins) that our approach leads to a significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Alexander I. Nesterov , Gennady P. Berman , Juan C. Beas Zepeda , Alan R. Bishop

Optimizing over separable quantum objects is challenging for two key reasons: determining separability is NP-hard, and the dimensionality of the problem grows exponentially with the number of qubits. We address both challenges by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Ankith Mohan , Tobias Haug , Kishor Bharti , Jamie Sikora

Quantum annealing provides a promising route for the development of quantum optimization devices, but the usefulness of such devices will be limited in part by the range of implementable problems as dictated by hardware constraints. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Walter Vinci , Tameem Albash , Gerardo Paz-Silva , Itay Hen , Daniel A. Lidar

Tensor networks provide a powerful framework for compressing multi-dimensional data. The optimal tensor network structure for a given data tensor depends on both data characteristics and specific optimality criteria, making tensor network…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zheng Guo , Aditya Deshpande , Brian Kiedrowski , Xinyu Wang , Alex Gorodetsky

We present tensor networks for feature extraction and refinement of classifier performance. These networks can be initialised deterministically and have the potential for implementation on near-term intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 L. Wright , F. Barratt , J. Dborin , V. Wimalaweera , B. Coyle , A. G. Green

Recent works put much effort into tensor network structure search (TN-SS), aiming to select suitable tensor network (TN) structures, involving the TN-ranks, formats, and so on, for the decomposition or learning tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Chao Li , Junhua Zeng , Zerui Tao , Qibin Zhao

Combinatorial problems such as combinatorial optimization and constraint satisfaction problems arise in decision-making across various fields of science and technology. In real-world applications, when multiple optimal or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yuta Mizuno , Mohammad Ali , Tamiki Komatsuzaki

Tensor network contraction is central to problems ranging from many-body physics to computer science. We describe how to approximate tensor network contraction through bond compression on arbitrary graphs. In particular, we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Johnnie Gray , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We investigate the minimization of Ising Hamiltonians, comparing the performance of gain-based computing paradigms based on the dynamics of semi-classical soft-spin models with quantum annealing. We systematically analyze how the energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 James S. Cummins , Hayder Salman , Natalia G. Berloff

Quantum annealing aims to exploit quantum mechanics to speed up the search for the solution to optimization problems. Most problems exhibit complete connectivity between the logical spin variables after they are mapped to the Ising spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Tameem Albash , Walter Vinci , Daniel A. Lidar

Optimized quantum control can enhance the performance and noise resilience of quantum metrology. However, the optimization quickly becomes intractable when multiple control operations are applied sequentially. In this work, we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Qiushi Liu , Yuxiang Yang

Tensor networks (TNs) enable compact representations of large tensors through shared parameters. Their use in probabilistic modeling is particularly appealing, as probabilistic tensor networks (PTNs) allow for tractable computation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Marawan Gamal Abdel Hameed , Guillaume Rabusseau

The logistic network design is an abstract optimization problem that, under the assumption of minimal cost, seeks the optimal configuration of the supply chain's infrastructures and facilities based on customer demand. Key economic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Yongcheng Ding , Xi Chen , Lucas Lamata , Enrique Solano , Mikel Sanz

The recent availability of the first commercial quantum computers has provided a promising tool to tackle NP hard problems which can only be solved heuristically with present techniques. However, it is unclear if the current state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Hristo N. Djidjev , Guillaume Chapuis , Georg Hahn , Guillaume Rizk

Sampling a quantum systems underlying probability distributions is an important computational task, e.g., for quantum advantage experiments and quantum Monte Carlo algorithms. Tensor networks are an invaluable tool for efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Alec Dektor , Eugene Dumitrescu , Chao Yang

Many recent tensor network algorithms apply unitary operators to parts of a tensor network in order to reduce entanglement. However, many of the previously used iterative algorithms to minimize entanglement can be slow. We introduce an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Kevin Slagle

Quantum machine learning researchers often rely on incorporating Tensor Networks (TN) into Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and variational optimization. However, the standard optimization techniques used for training the contracted trainable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Debanjan Konar , Dheeraj Peddireddy , Vaneet Aggarwal , Bijaya K. Panigrahi

We describe an efficient approximation algorithm for evaluating the ground-state energy of the classical Ising Hamiltonian with linear terms on an arbitrary planar graph. The running time of the algorithm grows linearly with the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-16 Nikhil Bansal , Sergey Bravyi , Barbara M. Terhal