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With the advent of quantum computers, many quantum computing algorithms are being developed. Solving linear systems is one of the most fundamental problems in almost all science and engineering. The Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd algorithm, a…

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Combinatorial optimization is a promising area for achieving quantum speedup. Quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is designed to search for low-energy states of the Ising model, which correspond to near-optimal solutions of…

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We propose a resource-constrained heuristic for instances of Max-SAT that iteratively decomposes a larger problem into smaller subcomponents that can be solved by optimized solvers and hardware. The unconstrained outer loop maintains the…

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Verification of binary neural network (BNN) robustness is NP-hard, as it can be formulated as a combinatorial search for an adversarial perturbation that induces misclassification. Exact verification methods therefore scale poorly with…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Madhav Vadlamani , Rahul Singh , Yuyao Kong , Zheng Zhang , Shimeng Yu

Combinatorial optimization problems are crucial in industry. However, many COPs are NP-hard, causing the search space to grow exponentially with problem size and rendering large-scale instances computationally intractable. Conventional…

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Many real-world problems are naturally formulated as higher-order optimization (HUBO) tasks involving dense, multi-variable interactions, which are challenging to solve with classical methods. Quantum optimization offers a promising route,…

Many emerging commercial services are based on the sharing or pooling of resources for common use with the aim of reducing costs. Businesses such as delivery-, mobility-, or transport-as-a-service have become standard in many parts of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Michele Cattelan , Sheir Yarkoni

The broad applicability of Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) constitutes a general-purpose modeling framework for combinatorial optimization problems and are a required format for gate array and quantum annealing computers.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Amit Verma , Mark Lewis

Solving combinatorial optimization problems of the kind that can be codified by quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) is a promising application of quantum computation. Some problems of this class suitable for practical…

In this paper, we study the problem of digital pre/post-coding design in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with 1-bit resolution per complex dimension. The optimal solution that maximizes the received signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Ioannis Krikidis

Quantum annealing is a promising approach for solving combinatorial optimization problems. However, its performance is often limited by the overhead of additional qubits required for embedding logical QUBO models onto quantum annealers.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Kohei Suda , Soshun Naito , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

In edge computing, suppressing data size is a challenge for machine learning models that perform complex tasks such as autonomous driving, in which computational resources (speed, memory size and power) are limited. Efficient lossy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Tadashi Kadowaki , Mitsuru Ambai

Black-box optimization has potential in numerous applications such as hyperparameter optimization in machine learning and optimization in design of experiments. Ising machines are useful for binary optimization problems because variables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Yuya Seki , Ryo Tamura , Shu Tanaka

An increasingly popular method for solving a constrained combinatorial optimisation problem is to first convert it into a quadratic unconstrained binary optimisation (QUBO) problem, and solve it using a standard QUBO solver. However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Tian Huang , Siong Thye Goh , Sabrish Gopalakrishnan , Tao Luo , Qianxiao Li , Hoong Chuin Lau

Quantum computing has emerged as a promising alternative for solving combinatorial optimization problems. The standard approach for encoding optimization problems on quantum processing units (QPUs) involves transforming them into their…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Meerzhan Kanatbekova , Vincenzo De Maio , Ivona Brandic

Quantum computing holds promise for outperforming classical computing in specialized applications such as optimization. With current Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, only variational quantum algorithms like the Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Daniel Müssig , Markus Wappler , Steve Lenk , Jörg Lässig

Quantum Annealing (QA) and QAOA are promising quantum optimisation algorithms used for finding approximate solutions to combinatorial problems on near-term NISQ systems. Many NP-hard problems can be reformulated as Quadratic Unconstrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Namasi G Sankar , Georgios Miliotis , Simon Caton

Given the increasing global emphasis on sustainable energy usage and the rising energy demands of cellular wireless networks, this work seeks an optimal short-term, continuous-time power procurement schedule to minimize operating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Nadhir Ben Rached , Shyam Mohan Subbiah Pillai , Raúl Tempone

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique is important for achieving a high data rate in next-generation wireless communications. A key challenge to fully utilizing the effectiveness of the NOMA technique is the optimization of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Teppei Otsuka , Aohan Li , Hiroki Takesue , Kensuke Inaba , Kazuyuki Aihara , Mikio Hasegawa

Combinatorial optimization has wide applications from industry to natural science. Ising machines bring an emerging computing paradigm for efficiently solving a combinatorial optimization problem by searching a ground state of a given Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-16 Kentaro Ohno , Tatsuhiko Shirai , Nozomu Togawa