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This paper introduces two decomposition-based methods for two-block mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs), which aim to take advantage of separable structures of the original problem by solving a sequence of lower-dimensional MILPs. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Kaizhao Sun , Mou Sun , Wotao Yin

Stochastic Unit Commitment (SUC) has been proposed to manage the uncertainties driven by renewable integration, but it leads to significant computational complexity. When accelerated by Benders Decomposition (BD), the master problem becomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Wei Hong , Wangkun Xu , Fei Teng

This article presents a scalable, data-driven formulation of city-wide Traffic Flow Optimization as a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization problem and evaluates its performance using quantum annealing and classical solvers on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Renáta Rusnáková , Martin Chovanec , Juraj Gazda

We introduce a quantum dynamic programming framework that allows us to directly extend to the quantum realm a large body of classical dynamic programming algorithms. The corresponding quantum dynamic programming algorithms retain the same…

Influence diagrams represent decision-making problems with interdependencies between random events, decisions, and consequences. Traditionally, they have been solved using algorithms that determine the expected utility-maximizing decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Topias Terho , Fabricio Oliveira , Ahti Salo , Pedro Munari

We propose an IR for quantum computing that directly exposes quantum and classical data dependencies for the purpose of optimization. The Quantum Intermediate Representation for Optimization (QIRO) consists of two dialects, one input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 David Ittah , Thomas Häner , Vadym Kliuchnikov , Torsten Hoefler

We study quantum computing algorithms for solving certain constrained resource allocation problems we coin as Mission Covering Optimization (MCO). We compare formulations of constrained optimization problems using Quantum Annealing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Massimiliano Cutugno , Annarita Giani , Paul M. Alsing , Laura Wessing , Austars Schnore

Optimization of electricity surplus is a crucial element for transmission power networks to reduce costs and efficiently use the available electricity across the network. In this paper we showed how to optimize such a network with quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Giuseppe Colucci , Stan van der Linde , Frank Phillipson

Quantum and Classical computers continue to work together in tight cooperation to solve difficult problems. The combination is thus suggested in recent times for decoding the Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, for the next generation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Utso Majumder , Aditya Das Sarma , Vishnu Vaidya , M Girish Chandra

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

Quantum optimization has emerged as a promising frontier of quantum computing, providing novel numerical approaches to mathematical optimization problems. The main goal of this paper is to facilitate interdisciplinary research between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Alexey Bochkarev , Raoul Heese , Sven Jäger , Philine Schiewe , Anita Schöbel

In this work we propose a high-quality decomposition approach for qubit routing by swap insertion. This optimization problem arises in the context of compiling quantum algorithms onto specific quantum hardware. Our approach decomposes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Friedrich Wagner , Andreas Bärmann , Frauke Liers , Markus Weissenbäck

We present a novel quantum optimization-based route compression technique that significantly reduces storage requirements compared to conventional methods. Route optimization systems face critical challenges in efficiently storing selected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Shunsuke Sotobayashi , Yuichiro Minato , Takao Tomono

Quantum computers can solve semidefinite programs (SDPs) using resources that scale better than state-of-the-art classical methods as a function of the problem dimension. At the same time, the known quantum algorithms scale very unfavorably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Fabian Henze , Viet Tran , Birte Ostermann , Richard Kueng , Timo de Wolff , David Gross

In this paper, we develop a way to encode several NP-Complete problems in Abstract Argumentation to Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems. In this form, a solution for a QUBO problem involves minimizing a quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Marco Baioletti , Francesco Santini

Challenging combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Several quantum methods for optimization have recently been developed, in different settings including both exact and approximate solvers. Addressing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Nicolas PD Sawaya , Albert T Schmitz , Stuart Hadfield

Quantum computing offers an alternative paradigm for addressing combinatorial optimization problems compared to classical computing. Despite recent hardware improvements, the execution of empirical quantum optimization experiments at scales…

There is growing interest in solving computer vision problems such as mesh or point set alignment using Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC). Unfortunately, modern experimental AQC devices such as D-Wave only support Quadratic Unconstrained…

Problems related to wavelength assignment (WA) in optical communications networks involve allocating transmission wavelengths for known transmission paths between nodes that minimize a certain objective function, for example, the total…

Quantum computations are very important branch of modern cryptology. According to the number of working physical qubits available in general-purpose quantum computers and in quantum annealers, there is no coincidence, that nowadays quantum…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Michał Wroński , Mateusz Leśniak