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This paper presents a coupled ring oscillator based Potts ma chine to solve NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). Potts model is a generalization of the Ising model, cap turing multivalued spins in contrast to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yilmaz Ege Gonul , Baris Taskin

As a means to solve optimization problems using quantum computers, the problem is typically recast into a Ising spin model whose ground-state is the solution of the optimization problem. An alternative to the Ising formulation is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Martin Lanthaler , Wolfgang Lechner

We explore the potential of spatial-photonic Ising machines (SPIMs) to address computationally intensive Ising problems that employ low-rank and circulant coupling matrices. Our results indicate that the performance of SPIMs is critically…

We present a technique for producing valid dual bounds for nonconvex quadratic optimization problems. The approach leverages an elegant piecewise linear approximation for univariate quadratic functions due to Yarotsky, formulating this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Ben Beach , Robert Hildebrand , Joey Huchette

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are often assumed to allow continuous phase control over all elements, leading to hardware cost that scales with the number of elements. Treating the phase of each element as a discrete variable is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Tasuku Okamoto , Naoki Ishikawa , Daisuke Kitayama , Yuto Hama , Kensuke Inaba , Toshimori Honjo , Hiroki Takesue , Hiroyuki Takahashi

Topology optimization is an essential tool in computational engineering, for example, to improve the design and efficiency of flow channels. At the same time, Ising machines, including digital or quantum annealers, have been used as…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yudai Suzuki , Shiori Aoki , Fabian Key , Katsuhiro Endo , Yoshiki Matsuda , Shu Tanaka , Marek Behr , Mayu Muramatsu

We proposed the method that translates the 2-D CSP for minimizing the number of cuts to the Ising model. After that, we conducted computer experiments of the proposed model using the benchmark problem. From the above, the following results…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Hiroshi Arai , Harumi Haraguchi

The mining in physics and biology for accelerating the hardcore algorithm to solve non-deterministic polynomial (NP) hard problems has inspired a great amount of special-purpose ma-chine models. Ising machine has become an efficient solver…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Wenchen Sun , Wenjia Zhang , Yuanyuan Liu , Qingwen Liu , Zuyuan He

We present a new way to make Ising machines, i.e., using networks of coupled self-sustaining nonlinear oscillators. Our scheme is theoretically rooted in a novel result that establishes that the phase dynamics of coupled oscillator systems,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Tianshi Wang , Jaijeet Roychowdhury

We present a procedure to solve the inverse Ising problem, that is to find the interactions between a set of binary variables from the measure of their equilibrium correlations. The method consists in constructing and selecting specific…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-30 Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson

Several continuous dynamical systems have recently been proposed as special-purpose analog computers designed to solve combinatorial optimization problems such as $k$-SAT or the Ising problem. While combinatorial optimization problems are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-17 Clemens Gneiting , Farad Khoyratee , Enrico Rinaldi , Khyati Jain , Rishab Khincha , Franco Nori

Optimization problems in finance, physics and computer science are typically very hard to tackle in classical computing and quantum computing could help speed up computations and provide efficient methods for tackling large problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Dawei Zhong , Akhil Francis , Ermal Rrapaj

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

Combinatorial optimization problems can be mapped onto Ising models, and their ground state is generally difficult to find. A lot of heuristics for these problems have been proposed, and one promising approach is to use continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-03 Shintaro Sato

A pivotal task for quantum computing is to speed up solving problems that are both classically intractable and practically valuable. Among these, combinatorial optimization problems have attracted tremendous attention due to their broad…

The high-performance scalable parallel algorithm for rigorous calculation of partition function of lattice systems with finite number Ising spins was developed. The parallel calculations run by C++ code with using of Message Passing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-21 Alexey A. Peretyatko , Ivan A. Bogatyrev , Vitaliy Yu. Kapitan , Yury V. Kirienko , Konstantin V. Nefedev , Valery I. Belokon

Recently, purpose-built analog hardware that can efficiently minimize the Ising energy and thereby solve a variety of combinatorial optimization problems has been receiving widespread attention. In this work, we show how multidimensional,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-02 Marvin Syed , Richard Zhipeng Wang , Natalia G. Berloff

Compressing resource-intensive large language models by removing whole transformer blocks is a seemingly simple idea, but identifying which blocks to remove constitutes an exponentially difficult combinatorial problem. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 David Jansen , Roman Rausch , David Montero , Roman Orus

This paper presents a convex optimization-based method for finding the globally optimal solutions of a class of mixed-integer non-convex optimal control problems. We consider problems that are non-convex in the input norm, which is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Danylo Malyuta , Michael Szmuk , Behcet Acikmese

It is well known that selecting a good Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulation is crucial for an effective solution with state-of-the art solvers. While best practices and guidelines for constructing good formulations abound, there is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Juan Pablo Vielma