English
Related papers

Related papers: QuCOOP: A Versatile Framework for Solving Composit…

200 papers

Matching problems on 3D shapes and images are challenging as they are frequently formulated as combinatorial quadratic assignment problems (QAPs) with permutation matrix constraints, which are NP-hard. In this work, we address such problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Marcel Seelbach Benkner , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

The LogQ algorithm encodes Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems with exponentially fewer qubits than the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA). The advantages of conventional LogQ are accompanied by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yagnik Chatterjee , Jérémie Messud

Quantum optimization is the most mature quantum computing technology to date, providing a promising approach towards efficiently solving complex combinatorial problems. Methods such as adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) have been employed in…

Combinatorial optimization problems are typically formulated using Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO), where constraints are enforced through penalty terms that introduce auxiliary variables and rapidly increase Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Shashank Sanjay Bhat , Peiyong Wang , Joseph West , Udaya Parampalli

Collaborative filtering models generally perform better than content-based filtering models and do not require careful feature engineering. However, in the cold-start scenario collaborative information may be scarce or even unavailable,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Artyom Nikitin , Andrei Chertkov , Rafael Ballester-Ripoll , Ivan Oseledets , Evgeny Frolov

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) requires considered optimization problems to be translated into a compatible format. A popular transformation step in this pipeline involves the quadratization of higher-order binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Damian Rovara , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

Finding shape correspondences can be formulated as an NP-hard quadratic assignment problem (QAP) that becomes infeasible for shapes with high sampling density. A promising research direction is to tackle such quadratic optimization problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Marcel Seelbach Benkner , Zorah Lähner , Vladislav Golyanik , Christof Wunderlich , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC) is an attractive paradigm for solving hard integer polynomial optimization problems. Available hardware restricts the Hamiltonians to be of a structure that allows only pairwise interactions. This requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 Raouf Dridi , Hedayat Alghassi , Sridhar Tayur

A quantum annealer heuristically minimizes quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems, but is limited by the physical hardware in the size and density of the problems it can handle. We have developed a meta-heuristic solver…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Gili Rosenberg , Mohammad Vazifeh , Brad Woods , Eldad Haber

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and Quantum Annealing are prominent approaches for solving combinatorial optimization problems, such as those formulated as Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO). These…

As contemporary quantum computers do not possess error correction, any calculation performed by these devices can be considered an involuntary approximation. To solve a problem on a quantum annealer, it has to be expressed as an instance of…

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) is a field of operations research that is attracting growing interest due to the recent availability of quantum hardware targeted at solving QUBO problems. However, practical adoption is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Lodovica Marchesi , Amal Nasharti , Michele Marchesi

In this paper, we propose a hybrid framework to solve large-scale permutation-based combinatorial problems effectively using a high-performance quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) solver. To do so, transformations are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Siong Thye Goh , Sabrish Gopalakrishnan , Jianyuan Bo , Hoong Chuin Lau

This paper presents key enhancements to our previous work~\cite{naghmouchi2024mixed} on a hybrid Benders decomposition (HBD) framework for solving mixed integer linear programs (MILPs). In our approach, the master problem is reformulated as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Anna Joliot , M. Yassine Naghmouchi , Wesley Coelho

The Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems are NP hard; thus, so far, there are no algorithms to solve them efficiently. There are exact methods like the Branch-and-Bound algorithm for smaller problems, and for larger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Máté Tibor Veszeli , Gábor Vattay

Recent advances in quantum computing and the increasing availability of quantum hardware have substantially enhanced the practical relevance of quantum approaches to discrete optimization. Among these, the Quadratic Unconstrained Binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Felix P. Broesamle , Stefan Nickel

Quantum Annealing (QA) can be used to quickly obtain near-optimal solutions for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems. In QA hardware, each decision variable of a QUBO should be mapped to one or more adjacent qubits in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Thiago Serra , Teng Huang , Arvind Raghunathan , David Bergman

We introduce VeloxQ, a fast solver for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems, which are central to many real-world optimization tasks. Unlike approaches that depend on emerging quantum hardware, VeloxQ can be deployed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 J. Pawłowski , J. Tuziemski , P. Tarasiuk , H. Louzada , R. Adamski , K. Hendzel , Ł. Pawela , B. Gardas

The feedback-based algorithm for quantum optimization (FALQON) has recently been proposed to solve quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems. This paper efficiently generalizes FALQON to tackle quadratic constrained binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Salahuddin Abdul Rahman , Özkan Karabacak , Rafal Wisniewski

Quantum annealing offers a promising paradigm for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, but its practical application is severely hindered by two challenges: the complex, manual process of translating problem descriptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Huixiang Zhang , Mahzabeen Emu , Salimur Choudhury