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We present a framework for efficiently solving Approximate Traveling Salesman Problem (Approximate TSP) for Quantum Computing Models. Existing representations of TSP introduce extra states which do not correspond to any permutation. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debabrata Goswami , Harish Karnick , Prateek Jain , Hemanta K. Maji

We develop a framework for warm-starting Bayesian optimization, that reduces the solution time required to solve an optimization problem that is one in a sequence of related problems. This is useful when optimizing the output of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-12 Matthias Poloczek , Jialei Wang , Peter I. Frazier

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a fundamental challenge in combinatorial optimization, widely applied in logistics and transportation. As the size of TSP instances grows, traditional algorithms often struggle to produce high-quality…

The Traveling Salesman Problem is a classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that has been extensively studied in operations research. A major challenge in Traveling Salesman Problem formulations is the large number of subtour…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Alessia Ciacco , Luigi Di Puglia Pugliese , Francesca Guerriero

Vector Approximate Message Passing (VAMP) provides the means of solving a linear inverse problem in a Bayes-optimal way assuming the measurement operator is sufficiently random. However, VAMP requires implementing the linear minimum mean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Nikolajs Skuratovs , Mike E. Davies

We generalize the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) of Farhi et al. (2014) to allow for arbitrary separable initial states with corresponding mixers such that the starting state is the most excited state of the mixing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Reuben Tate , Jai Moondra , Bryan Gard , Greg Mohler , Swati Gupta

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm is gaining interest for its potential use in near-term quantum devices. In the VQE algorithm, parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) are employed to prepare quantum states, which are then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Atsushi Matsuo , Yudai Suzuki , Ikko Hamamura , Shigeru Yamashita

The Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) is a fundamental NP-hard optimisation challenge with widespread applications in logistics, operations research, and network design. While classical algorithms effectively solve small to medium-sized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Christos Lytrosyngounis , Ioannis Lytrosyngounis

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a promising candidate for solving combinatorial optimization problems more efficiently than classical computers. Recent studies have shown that warm-starting the standard algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Vanessa Dehn , Thomas Wellens

This paper implements a new way of solving a problem called the traveling salesman problem (TSP) using quantum genetic algorithm (QGA). We compared how well this new approach works to the traditional method known as a classical genetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Yijiang Ma , Tan Chye Cheah

The growing field of quantum computing is based on the concept of a q-bit which is a delicate superposition of 0 and 1, requiring cryogenic temperatures for its physical realization along with challenging coherent coupling techniques for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Kerem Y. Camsari , Shuvro Chowdhury , Supriyo Datta

The Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP), a quintessential NP-hard combinatorial optimisation challenge, is vital for logistics and network design but limited by exponential complexity in large instances. We propose a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Christos Lytrosyngounis , Ioannis Lytrosyngounis

Improving quantum algorithms run-time performance involves several strategies such as reducing the quantum gate counts, decreasing the number of measurements, advancement in QPU technology for faster gate operations, or optimizing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Akhil Francis , Abhi D. Rajagopala , Norm M. Tubman , Katherine Klymko , Kasra Nowrouzi

Quantum computing holds great promise for solving classically intractable problems such as linear systems and partial differential equations (PDEs). While fully fault-tolerant quantum computers remain out of reach, current noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Samuel Donachie , Ulysse Remond , Arthur Mathorel , Kyryl Kazymyrenko

We study the online Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) on the line augmented with machine-learned predictions. In the classical problem, there is a stream of requests released over time along the real line. The goal is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Themis Gouleakis , Konstantinos Lakis , Golnoosh Shahkarami

We propose a quantum machine learning framework for estimating classical covariance matrices using parameterized quantum circuits within the Pauli-Correlation-Encoding (PCE) paradigm. We introduce two quantum covariance estimators: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Vicente P. Soloviev , Bibhas Adhikari

We apply the Tensor Train (TT) approximation to construct the Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE) of a random field, and solve the stochastic elliptic diffusion PDE with the stochastic Galerkin discretization. We compare two strategies of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-12 Sergey Dolgov , Boris N. Khoromskij , Alexander Litvinenko , Hermann G. Matthies

In order to deal with the high development time of exact and approximation algorithms for NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problems and the high running time of exact solvers, deep learning techniques have been used in recent years as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 James Fitzpatrick , Deepak Ajwani , Paula Carroll

We present a new $(\frac32+\frac1{\mathrm{e}})$-approximation algorithm for the Ordered Traveling Salesperson Problem (Ordered TSP). Ordered TSP is a variant of the classical metric Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) where a specified…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Susanne Armbruster , Matthias Mnich , Martin Nägele

We give a constant-factor approximation algorithm for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem (ATSP). Our approximation guarantee is analyzed with respect to the standard LP relaxation, and thus our result confirms the conjectured…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Ola Svensson , Jakub Tarnawski , László A. Végh