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Numerous established machine learning models and various neural network architectures can be restructured as Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems. A significant challenge in Adiabatic Quantum Machine Learning (AQML)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Bahram Alidaee , Haibo Wang , Lutfu Sua , Wade Liu

We present a heuristic algorithm designed to solve Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems efficiently. The algorithm, referred to as IC-D2S, leverages a hybrid approach using Ising and classical machines to address very…

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Recent works on quantum algorithms for solving semidefinite optimization (SDO) problems have leveraged a quantum-mechanical interpretation of positive semidefinite matrices to develop methods that obtain quantum speedups with respect to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Brandon Augustino , Giacomo Nannicini , Tamás Terlaky , Luis Zuluaga

In Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era, quantum processing units (QPUs) suffer from, among others, highly limited connectivity between physical qubits. To make a quantum circuit effectively executable, a circuit transformation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Xiangzhen Zhou , Yuan Feng , Sanjiang Li

Quantum algorithms have been widely studied in the context of combinatorial optimization problems. While this endeavor can often analytically and practically achieve quadratic speedups, theoretical and numeric studies remain limited,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Lucas T. Brady , Stuart Hadfield

Error mitigation has elevated quantum computing to the scale of hundreds of qubits and tens of layers; however, yet larger scales (deeper circuits) are needed to fully exploit the potential of quantum computing to solve practical problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Sergey N. Filippov , Sabrina Maniscalco , Guillermo García-Pérez

As search depth increases in autonomous reasoning and embodied planning, candidate action spaces expand exponentially, often exhausting computational budgets. While heuristic pruning is a critical countermeasure, existing approaches lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tianhao Qian

Establishing quantum speedup for computationally hard problems of practical relevance, particularly combinatorial optimization problems, remains a central challenge in quantum computation. In this work, we identify a structurally defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Vicky Choi

We propose an innovative Parallel Quantum Local Search (PQLS) methodology that leverages the capabilities of small-scale quantum computers to efficiently address complex combinatorial optimization problems. Traditional Quantum Local Search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Chen-Yu Liu , Kuan-Cheng Chen

Local Search problem, which finds a local minimum of a black-box function on a given graph, is of both practical and theoretical importance to combinatorial optimization, complexity theory and many other areas in theoretical computer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shengyu Zhang

Recent studies suggest that gradient-based methods applied to relaxed box-constrained Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) formulations can outperform classical heuristics in some large-scale regimes, often relying on heavy…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yongliang Sun , Ismail Alkhouri , Cheng-Han Huang , Alvaro Velasquez , Susmit Jha , Rongrong Wang

Quantum annealing is a heuristic optimization algorithm that exploits quantum evolution to approximately find lowest energy states. Quantum annealers have scaled up in recent years to tackle increasingly larger and more highly connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Humberto Munoz Bauza , Daniel A. Lidar

In this study, we consider the application of deep learning (DL) to tabu search (TS) detection in large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. First, we propose a deep neural network architecture for symbol detection, termed the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-05 NhanThanh Nguyen , Kyungchun Lee

Recent studies have shown that making a model spend more time thinking through longer Chain of Thoughts (CoTs) enables it to gain significant improvements in complex reasoning tasks. While current researches continue to explore the benefits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wenkai Yang , Shuming Ma , Yankai Lin , Furu Wei

Many recent investigations conclude, based on asymptotic complexity analyses, that quantum computers could accelerate combinatorial optimization (CO) tasks relative to a purely classical computer. However, asymptotic analysis alone cannot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Pedro C. S. Costa , Mauro E. S. Morales , Dong An , Yuval R. Sanders

Quantum Architecture Search (QAS) is an emerging field aimed at automating the design of quantum circuits for optimal performance. This paper introduces a novel QAS framework employing hybrid quantum reinforcement learning with quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Siddhant Dutta , Nouhaila Innan , Sadok Ben Yahia , Muhammad Shafique

Neutral atom quantum computers (NAQCs) have emerged as a promising platform for solving the maximum weighted independent set (MWIS) problem. However, analog quantum approaches face two key limitations: constraints of the atomic layout on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Cédrick Perron , Yves Bérubé-Lauzière , Victor Drouin-Touchette

In this paper, we introduce LOTUS (Layer-Ordered Temporally-Unified Schedules), which is a framework that restructures QAOA from a high-dimensional, chaotic search into a low-dimensional dynamical system. By replacing independent layer-wise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Phuong-Nam Nguyen

Matrix scaling is a simple to state, yet widely applicable linear-algebraic problem: the goal is to scale the rows and columns of a given non-negative matrix such that the rescaled matrix has prescribed row and column sums. Motivated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Sander Gribling , Harold Nieuwboer

This paper introduces a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm for generalized pattern search (GPS) algorithms. We introduce a quantum search step algorithm using amplitude amplification, which reduces the number of oracle calls needed during…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Colton Mikes , Ismael R. de Farias , David Huckleberry Gutman , Victoria E. Howle