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Chemical multisensor devices need calibration algorithms to estimate gas concentrations. Their possible adoption as indicative air quality measurements devices poses new challenges due to the need to operate in continuous monitoring modes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-14 S. De Vito , E. Esposito , M. Salvato , O. Popoola , F. Formisano , R. Jones , G. Di Francia

Applying optimal control algorithms on realistic quantum systems confronts two key challenges: to efficiently adopt physical constraints in the optimization and to minimize the variables for the convenience of experimental tune-ups. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Yao Song , Junning Li , Yong-Ju Hai , Qihao Guo , Xiu-Hao Deng

Single-objective optimization algorithms search for the single highest-quality solution with respect to an objective. Quality diversity (QD) optimization algorithms, such as Covariance Matrix Adaptation MAP-Elites (CMA-ME), search for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Matthew C. Fontaine , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Performing efficient quantum computer tuneup and calibration is essential for growth in system complexity. In this work we explore the link between facilitating such capabilities and the underlying architecture of the physical hardware. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Riddhi S. Gupta , Luke C. G. Govia , Michael J. Biercuk

In this paper, we introduce a quantum-enhanced algorithm for simulation-based optimization. Simulation-based optimization seeks to optimize an objective function that is computationally expensive to evaluate exactly, and thus, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Julien Gacon , Christa Zoufal , Stefan Woerner

Experimental multi-objective Quantum Control is an emerging topic within the broad physics and chemistry applications domain of controlling quantum phenomena. This realm offers cutting edge ultrafast laser laboratory applications, which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-23 Ofer M. Shir , Jonathan Roslund , Zaki Leghtas , Herschel Rabitz

The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is a fundamental tool in unsupervised machine learning. It is often used as an efficient way to solve Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation problems, especially for models with latent variables. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Iordanis Kerenidis , Alessandro Luongo , Anupam Prakash

For paving the way to novel applications in quantum simulation, computation, and technology, increasingly large quantum systems have to be steered with high precision. It is a typical task amenable to numerical optimal control to turn the…

Pre-training a diverse set of neural network controllers in simulation has enabled robots to adapt online to damage in robot locomotion tasks. However, finding diverse, high-performing controllers requires expensive network training and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Bryon Tjanaka , Matthew C. Fontaine , David H. Lee , Aniruddha Kalkar , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Studies on simulation input uncertainty often built on the availability of input data. In this paper, we investigate an inverse problem where, given only the availability of output data, we nonparametrically calibrate the input models and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Aleksandrina Goeva , Henry Lam , Huajie Qian , Bo Zhang

We propose a multi-objective optimization algorithm aimed at achieving good anytime performance over a wide range of problems. Performance is assessed in terms of the hypervolume metric. The algorithm called HMO-CMA-ES represents a hybrid…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Ilya Loshchilov , Tobias Glasmachers

Quantum control aims to manipulate quantum systems toward specific quantum states or desired operations. Designing highly accurate and effective control steps is vitally important to various quantum applications, including energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

This study systematically benchmarks several non-fault-tolerant quantum computing algorithms across four distinct optimization problems: max-cut, number partitioning, knapsack, and quantum spin glass. Our benchmark includes noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Santaro Kikuura , Ryoya Igata , Yuta Shingu , Shohei Watabe

The paper addresses the optimization of dynamic circuits in quantum computing, with a focus on reducing the cost of mid-circuit measurements and resets. We extend the probabilistic circuit model (PCM) and implement an optimization framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Yanbin Chen , Innocenzo Fulginiti , Christian B. Mendl

Variational quantum algorithms, a class of quantum heuristics, are promising candidates for the demonstration of useful quantum computation. Finding the best way to amplify the performance of these methods on hardware is an important task.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 Max Wilson , Sam Stromswold , Filip Wudarski , Stuart Hadfield , Norm M. Tubman , Eleanor Rieffel

As Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices grow in number of qubits, determining good or even adequate parameter configurations for a given application, or for device calibration, becomes a cumbersome task. An evolutionary algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Luke Mortimer , Marta P. Estarellas , Timothy P. Spiller , Irene D'Amico

A novel simulation strategy is proposed to search for semiconductor quantum devices which are optimized with respect to required performances. Based on evolutionary programming, a tecnique implementing the paradigm of genetic algorithms to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Guido Goldoni , Fausto Rossi

In the present work we develop an algorithm for calibrating MEMS sensors, which accounts for the nonorthogonality of the accelerometers' axis, as well as for the constant bias and scaling errors. We derive an explicit formula for computing…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-20 Svetoslav Nakov , Tihomir Ivanov

Benchmarking Quantum Process Units (QPU) at an application level usually requires considering the whole programming stack of the quantum computer. One critical task is the minor-embedding (resp. transpilation) step, which involves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Valentin Gilbert , Julien Rodriguez , Stéphane Louise

Simulating dynamics of physical systems is a key application of quantum computing, with potential impact in fields such as condensed matter physics and quantum chemistry. However, current quantum algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation yield…