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The even distribution and optimization of tasks across resources and workstations is a critical process in manufacturing aimed at maximizing efficiency, productivity, and profitability, known as Robotic Assembly Line Balancing (RALB). With…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Moritz Willmann , Marcel Albus , Jan Schnabel , Marco Roth

We present a quantum-native approach to quantum feature selection (QFS) based on analog quantum simulation with neutral atom arrays, adaptable to a variety of academic and industrial applications. In our method, feature relevance-measured…

Hybrid quantum-classical machine learning offers a promising direction for advancing automated quality control in industrial settings. In this study, we investigate two hybrid quantum-classical approaches for classifying defects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Akshaya Srinivasan , Xiaoyin Cheng , Jianming Yi , Alexander Geng , Desislava Ivanova , Andreas Weinmann , Ali Moghiseh

In the modern world, facial identification is an extremely important task in which many applications rely on high performing algorithms to detect faces efficiently. Whilst classical methods of SVM and k-NN commonly used may perform to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Philip Easom-McCaldin , Ahmed Bouridane , Ammar Belatreche , Richard Jiang

Quantum machine learning is considered one of the current research fields with immense potential. In recent years, Havl\'i\v{c}ek et al. [Nature 567, 209-212 (2019)] have proposed a quantum machine learning algorithm with quantum-enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Chao Ding , Shi Wang , Yaonan Wang , Weibo Gao

Quantum annealing is a computing paradigm that has the ambitious goal of efficiently solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems of practical importance. However, many challenges have yet to be overcome before this goal can be…

Quantum annealing has emerged as a promising approach for solving NP-hard optimization problems, leveraging quantum phenomena such as quantum tunneling to navigate complex energy landscapes. However, the extent to which quantum tunneling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Vishwajeet Ohal , Pierre Boulanger

Characterizing thermally activated transitions in high-dimensional rugged energy surfaces is a very challenging task for classical computers. Here, we develop a quantum annealing scheme to solve this problem. First, the task of finding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Philipp Hauke , Giovanni Mattiotti , Pietro Faccioli

In this work we investigate the capabilities of a hybrid quantum-classical procedure to explore the solution space using the D-Wave $2000Q^{TM}$ Quantum Annealer device. Here we study the ability of the Quantum hardware to solve the Number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Luca Asproni , Davide Caputo , Blanca Silva , Giovanni Fazzi , Marco Magagnini

Quantum computing is an important developing technology with the potential to revolutionise the landscape of scientific and business problems that can be practically addressed. The widespread excitement derives from the potential for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 R. Cumming , T. Thomas

Image classification is an important task in the field of machine learning and image processing. However, the usually used classification method --- the K Nearest-Neighbor algorithm has high complexity, because its two main processes:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Yijie Dang , Nan Jiang , Hao Hu , Zhuoxiao Ji , Wenyin Zhang

Over the past decade, the usefulness of quantum annealing hardware for combinatorial optimization has been the subject of much debate. Thus far, experimental benchmarking studies have indicated that quantum annealing hardware does not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Byron Tasseff , Tameem Albash , Zachary Morrell , Marc Vuffray , Andrey Y. Lokhov , Sidhant Misra , Carleton Coffrin

Quantum computers leverage the principles of quantum mechanics to do computation with a potential advantage over classical computers. While a single classical computer transforms one particular binary input into an output after applying one…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Francisco Chicano , Gabiel Luque , Zakaria Abdelmoiz Dahi , Rodrigo Gil-Merino

Recent technological developments in the field of experimental quantum annealing have made prototypical annealing optimizers with hundreds of qubits commercially available. The experimental demonstration of a quantum speedup for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-15 Jeffrey Marshall , Victor Martin-Mayor , Itay Hen

Quantum computation is a promising emerging technology, and by utilizing the principles of quantum mechanics, it is expected to achieve faster computations than classical computers for specific problems. There are two distinct architectures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Takashi Imoto , Yuki Susa , Ryoji Miyazaki , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

The basic idea of quantum computing is surprisingly similar to that of kernel methods in machine learning, namely to efficiently perform computations in an intractably large Hilbert space. In this paper we explore some theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Maria Schuld , Nathan Killoran

Recent research has demonstrated that quantum computers can solve certain types of problems substantially faster than the known classical algorithms. These problems include factoring integers and certain physics simulations. Practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Emanuel Knill , Raymond Laflamme , Wojciech H. Zurek

Variational quantum circuits for image classification suffer from barren plateaus, while quantum kernel methods scale quadratically with dataset size. We propose an iterative framework based on Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Mostafa Atallah , Rebekah Herrman

One of the problems frequently mentioned as a candidate for quantum advantage is that of selecting a portfolio of financial assets to maximize returns while minimizing risk. In this paper we formulate several real-world constraints for use…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-10 Salvatore Certo , Anh Dung Pham , Daniel Beaulieu

Recent advances in the development of commercial quantum annealers such as the D-Wave 2X allow solving NP-hard optimization problems that can be expressed as quadratic unconstrained binary programs. However, the relatively small number of…

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