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In this work, we systematically examine the application of spatio-temporal splitting heuristics to the Multi-Robot Motion Planning (MRMP) problem in a graph-theoretic setting: a problem known to be NP-hard to optimally solve. Following the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Teng Guo , Shuai D. Han , Jingjin Yu

The capacitated arc routing problem is a very important problem with many practical applications. This paper focuses on the large scale capacitated arc routing problem. Traditional solution optimization approaches usually fail because of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Yuzhou Zhang , Yi Mei , Buzhong Zhang , Keqin Jiang

The qubit routing problem, also known as the swap minimization problem, is a (classical) combinatorial optimization problem that arises in the design of compilers of quantum programs. We study the qubit routing problem from the viewpoint of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Takehiro Ito , Naonori Kakimura , Naoyuki Kamiyama , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yoshio Okamoto

Quantum computers with a limited qubit connectivity require inserting SWAP gates for qubit routing, which increases gate execution errors and the impact of environmental noise due to an overhead in circuit depth. In this work, we benchmark…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Vicente Pina-Canelles , Adrian Auer , Inés de Vega

Noisy linear problems have been studied in various science and engineering disciplines. A class of "hard" noisy linear problems can be formulated as follows: Given a matrix $\hat{A}$ and a vector $\mathbf{b}$ constructed using a finite set…

Qubit routing is a fundamental problem in quantum compilation, known to be NP-hard. Its dynamic nature makes local routing decisions propagate and compound over time, making global efficient solutions challenging. Existing heuristic methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kien X. Nguyen , Ankit Kulshrestha , Ilya Safro , Xiaoyuan Liu

Convex quadratic programs (QPs) are fundamental to numerous applications, including finance, engineering, and energy systems. Among the various methods for solving them, the Douglas-Rachford (DR) splitting algorithm is notable for its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Jinxin Xiong , Xi Gao , Linxin Yang , Jiang Xue , Xiaodong Luo , Akang Wang

"Qubit routing" refers to the task of modifying quantum circuits so that they satisfy the connectivity constraints of a target quantum computer. This involves inserting SWAP gates into the circuit so that the logical gates only ever occur…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-03 Matteo G. Pozzi , Steven J. Herbert , Akash Sengupta , Robert D. Mullins

Most quantum computers today are constrained by hardware limitations, particularly the number of available qubits, causing significant challenges for executing large-scale quantum algorithms. Circuit cutting has emerged as a key technique…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Mar Tejedor , Berta Casas , Javier Conejero , Alba Cervera-Lierta , Rosa M. Badia

We compare the circuit depths for five different gate sets to implement a quantum algorithm solving a drift-diffusion equation in two spatial dimensions. Our algorithm uses diagonalisation by the quantum Fourier transform. The gate sets…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Ellen Devereux , Animesh Datta

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) has emerged as a promising approach to overcome the scalability limitations of monolithic quantum processors in terms of computational capability. However, realising the full potential of DQC requires…

An algorithm for the generation of shuttling sequences is necessary for the operation of a linear segmented ion-trap quantum computer. The present work provides an implementation of an algorithm that produces sequences proved to be optimal…

The qubit-mapping problem aims to assign and route qubits of a quantum circuit onto a NISQ device in an optimized fashion, with respect to some cost function. Finding an optimal solution to this problem is known to scale exponentially in…

This paper addresses the challenge of scaling quantum computing by employing distributed quantum algorithms across multiple processors. We propose a novel circuit partitioning method that leverages graph partitioning to optimize both qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Eneet Kaur , Hassan Shapourian , Jiapeng Zhao , Michael Kilzer , Ramana Kompella , Reza Nejabati

Quantum annealing and D-Wave quantum annealer attracted considerable attention for their ability to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In order to solve other type of optimization problems, it is necessary to apply certain kinds of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Michiya Kuramata , Ryota Katsuki , Kazuhide Nakata

Integer factorization remains a significant challenge for classical computers and is fundamental to the security of RSA encryption. Adiabatic quantum algorithms present a promising solution, yet their practical implementation is limited by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Tianlai Yang , Mo Xiong , Ming Xue , Xinwei Li , Jinbin Li

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is an NP-hard optimization problem that has been an interest of research for decades in science and industry. The objective is to plan routes of vehicles to deliver goods to a fixed number of customers with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Nishikanta Mohanty , Bikash K. Behera , Christopher Ferrie

Efficient quantum arithmetic operations are essential building blocks for complex quantum algorithms, yet few theoretical designs have been implemented in practical quantum programming frameworks. This paper presents the first complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Heorhi Kupryianau , Marcin Niemiec

This paper offers a new algorithm to efficiently optimize scheduling decisions for dial-a-ride problems (DARPs), including problem variants considering electric and autonomous vehicles (e-ADARPs). The scheduling heuristic, based on linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Claudia Bongiovanni , Nikolas Geroliminis , Mor Kaspi

A recent paper by Jordan et al. introduced Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI), a novel quantum algorithm that uses the quantum Fourier transform to reduce linear optimization problems -- max-XORSAT and max-LINSAT -- to decoding problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Daniel Cohen Hillel