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Optimizing the training of a machine learning pipeline helps in reducing training costs and improving model performance. One such optimizing strategy is quantum annealing, which is an emerging computing paradigm that has shown potential in…

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This chapter presents an innovative framework for the application of machine learning and data analytics for the identification of alloys or composites exhibiting certain desired properties of interest. The main focus is on alloys and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-15 Baldur Steingrimsson , Xuesong Fan , Anand Kulkarni , Michael C. Gao , Peter K. Liaw

Recent work has shown that quantum annealing for machine learning, referred to as QAML, can perform comparably to state-of-the-art machine learning methods with a specific application to Higgs boson classification. We propose QAML-Z, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Alexander Zlokapa , Alex Mott , Joshua Job , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Daniel Lidar , Maria Spiropulu

Quantum machine learning (QML) is a rapidly growing area of research at the intersection of classical machine learning and quantum information theory. One area of considerable interest is the use of QML to learn information contained within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Maiyuren Srikumar , Charles D. Hill , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Quantum annealing is a heuristic optimization algorithm that exploits quantum evolution to approximately find lowest energy states. Quantum annealers have scaled up in recent years to tackle increasingly larger and more highly connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Humberto Munoz Bauza , Daniel A. Lidar

Quantum annealing is a computational paradigm in which optimisation problems are mapped onto the energy landscape of an interacting quantum system and explored through its dynamical evolution. By continuously transforming a simple initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Steven Abel , Andrei Constantin , Luca A. Nutricati

We assess the prospects for algorithms within the general framework of quantum annealing (QA) to achieve a quantum speedup relative to classical state of the art methods in combinatorial optimization and related sampling tasks. We argue for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 E. J. Crosson , D. A. Lidar

There has been growing excitement over the possibility of employing artificial neural networks (ANNs) to gain new theoretical insight into the physics of quantum many-body problems. ``Interpretability'' remains a concern: can we understand…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-08 Yi Zhang , Paul Ginsparg , Eun-Ah Kim

Quantum annealing (QA) is a hardware-based heuristic optimization and sampling method applicable to discrete undirected graphical models. While similar to simulated annealing, QA relies on quantum, rather than thermal, effects to explore…

Quantum machine learning is one of the fields where quantum computers are expected to bring advantages over classical methods. However, the limited size of current computers restricts the exploitation of the full potential of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Juan C. Boschero , Ward van der Schoot , Niels M. P. Neumann

Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, learns from previous experience to optimize performance, which is ubiquitous in various fields such as computer sciences, financial analysis, robotics, and bioinformatics. A challenge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 X. -D. Cai , D. Wu , Z. -E. Su , M. -C. Chen , X. -L. Wang , L. Li , N. -L. Liu , Chao-Yang Lu , Jian-Wei Pan

There is intense interest in uncovering design rules that govern the formation of various structural phases as a function of chemical composition in multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs). In this paper, we develop a machine learning (ML)…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-22 Kyungtae Lee , Mukil Ayyasamy , Paige Delsa , Timothy Q. Hartnett , Prasanna V. Balachandran

Mixed discrete-continuous optimization is central to engineering design, where discrete choices interact with continuous fields. These problems are difficult due to high-dimensional, complex search spaces. To tackle them, Quantum Annealing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Fabian Key , Lukas Freinberger , Mayu Muramatsu , Norbert Hosters

Critical decision-making issues in science, engineering, and industry are based on combinatorial optimization; however, its application is inherently limited by the NP-hard nature of the problem. A specialized paradigm of analogue quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Rudraksh Sharma , Ravi Katukam , Arjun Nagulapally

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

Accurate amine property prediction is essential for optimizing CO2 capture efficiency in post-combustion processes. Quantum machine learning (QML) can enhance predictive modeling by leveraging superposition, entanglement, and interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Hyein Cho , Jeonghoon Kim , Hocheol Lim

Quantum annealing provides a practical realization of adiabatic quantum computation and has emerged as a promising approach for solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. However, current devices remain constrained by sparse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Seon-Geun Jeong , Mai Dinh Cong , Dae-Il Noh , Quoc-Viet Pham , Won-Joo Hwang

Discovering high-entropy alloy (HEA) compositions that reliably form a target crystal phase is a high-dimensional inverse design problem that conventional trial-and-error experimentation and forward-only machine learning models cannot…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Iman Peivaste , Salim Belouettar

Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) are a promising class of alloys that show elevated-temperature yield strengths and have potential to use as high-performance materials in gas turbine engines. However, exploring the vast RHEA…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-07 Stephen A. Giles , Debasis Sengupta , Scott R. Broderick , Krishna Rajan

Quantum computing has become increasingly practical in solving real-world problems due to advances in hardware and algorithms. In this paper, we aim to design and estimate quantum machine learning and hybrid quantum-classical models in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Leyang Wang , Yilun Gong , Zongrui Pei