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Formulation symmetry in mixed-integer programming (MIP) can hinder solver performance by inducing redundant search, but detecting such symmetries is also a significant computational challenge. This paper explores the potential for quantum…

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I present a novel use of quantum annealing to solve the Set Splitting Problem using (QUBO) problem formulation. The contribution of the work is in formulating penalty functions that ensure the ground state of the QUBO Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Sean Borneman

Protein-ligand binding prediction is central to virtual screening and affinity ranking, two fundamental tasks in drug discovery. While recent retrieval-based methods embed ligands and protein pockets into Euclidean space for…

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In experimental High-Energy Physics, unfolding refers to the problem of estimating the underlying distribution of a physical observable from detector-level data, in the presence of statistical fluctuations and systematic uncertainties.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Simone Gasperini , Gianluca Bianco , Marco Lorusso , Carla Rieger , Michele Grossi

Molecular docking is a pivotal process in drug discovery. While traditional techniques rely on extensive sampling and simulation governed by physical principles, these methods are often slow and costly. The advent of deep learning-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-25 Kaiyuan Gao , Qizhi Pei , Gongbo Zhang , Jinhua Zhu , Kun He , Lijun Wu

Running a quantum circuit on current hardware involves a sequence of engineering decisions, each with tunable parameters and distinct error characteristics. Existing tools optimize each decision in isolation, leaving practitioners unable to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kisho Sotokawa , Hideaki Kawaguchi , Shin Nishio , Takahiko Satoh

The advent of quantum computing processors with possibility to scale beyond experimental capacities magnifies the importance of studying their applications. Combinatorial optimization problems can be one of the promising applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Ehsan Zahedinejad , Arman Zaribafiyan

We propose a quantum-assisted reconstruction framework for high-resolution tomographic imaging that significantly reduces both qubit requirements and radiation exposure. Conventional quantum reconstruction methods require solving QUBO…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Hyunju Lee , Kyungtaek Jun

Quantum layout synthesis (QLS) is a critical step in quantum program compilation for superconducting quantum computers, involving the insertion of SWAP gates to satisfy hardware connectivity constraints. While previous works have introduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Shuohao Ping , Wan-Hsuan Lin , Daniel Bochen Tan , Jason Cong

Optimizing objective functions stands to benefit significantly from leveraging quantum computers, promising enhanced solution quality across various application domains in the future. However, harnessing the potential of quantum solvers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Deborah Volpe , Nils Quetschlich , Mariagrazia Graziano , Giovanna Turvani , Robert Wille

In this article, we describe an algorithm for solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization problems on the Intel Loihi 2 neuromorphic processor. The solver is based on a hardware-aware fine-grained parallel simulated annealing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Alessandro Pierro , Philipp Stratmann , Gabriel Andres Fonseca Guerra , Sumedh Risbud , Timothy Shea , Ashish Rao Mangalore , Andreas Wild

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

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

Classical molecular docking is fundamentally constrained by the combinatorial growth of ligand translational and rotational degrees of freedom, rendering exhaustive pose enumeration infeasible on classical hardware. This work introduces a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Pei-Kun Yang

In machine learning, fewer features reduce model complexity. Carefully assessing the influence of each input feature on the model quality is therefore a crucial preprocessing step. We propose a novel feature selection algorithm based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Sascha Mücke , Raoul Heese , Sabine Müller , Moritz Wolter , Nico Piatkowski

The task of 6DoF object pose estimation is one of the fundamental problems of 3D vision with many practical applications such as industrial automation. Traditional deep learning approaches for this task often require extensive training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Matej Mok , Lukáš Gajdošech , Michal Mesároš , Martin Madaras , Viktor Kocur

The effects of ligand binding on protein structures and their in vivo functions carry numerous implications for modern biomedical research and biotechnology development efforts such as drug discovery. Although several deep learning (DL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Alex Morehead , Nabin Giri , Jian Liu , Pawan Neupane , Jianlin Cheng

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) solvers can be applied to design an optimal structure to avoid resonance. QUBO algorithms that work on a classical or quantum device have succeeded in some industrial applications. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-29 Tadayoshi Matsumori , Masato Taki , Tadashi Kadowaki

We present an open-source database of superconducting quantum device designs that may be used as the starting point for customized devices. Each design can be generated programmatically using the open-source Qiskit Metal package, and…