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Charged particle reconstruction or track reconstruction is one of the most crucial components of pattern recognition in high-energy collider physics. It is known to entail enormous consumption of computing resources, especially when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Hideki Okawa , Qing-Guo Zeng , Xian-Zhe Tao , Man-Hong Yung

Feature selection is a common step in many ranking, classification, or prediction tasks and serves many purposes. By removing redundant or noisy features, the accuracy of ranking or classification can be improved and the computational cost…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Fabio Moroni , Riccardo Nembrini , Nicola Ferro , Guglielmo Faggioli , Paolo Cremonesi

As the size of large language models grows exponentially, GPU memory has become a bottleneck for adapting these models to downstream tasks. In this paper, we aim to push the limits of memory-efficient training by minimizing memory usage on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sifeng Shang , Jiayi Zhou , Chenyu Lin , Minxian Li , Kaiyang Zhou

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

The quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem arises in diverse optimization applications ranging from Ising spin problems to classical problems in graph theory and binary discrete optimization. The use of preprocessing to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Fred Glover , Mark Lewis , Gary Kochenberger

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) is the standard interface to quantum annealers, yet a single constrained task admits many QUBO encodings whose penalty choices reshape the energy landscape experienced by hardware. We study…

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

We investigate the use of quantum computing algorithms on real quantum hardware to tackle the computationally intensive task of feature selection for light-weight medical image datasets. Feature selection is often formulated as a k of n…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Merlin A. Nau , Luca A. Nutricati , Bruno Camino , Paul A. Warburton , Andreas K. Maier

Towards fast, hardware-efficient, and low-complexity receivers, we propose a compression-aware learning approach and examine it on free-space optical (FSO) receivers for turbulence mitigation. The learning approach jointly quantize, prune,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Mohanad Obeed , Ming Jian

Quantum annealing technologies aim to solve computational optimization and sampling problems. QPU (Quantum Processing Unit) machines such as the D-Wave system use the QUBO (Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization) formula to define…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Toufan D. Tambunan , Andriyan B. Suksmono , Ian J. M. Edward , Rahmat Mulyawan

We report on a gate-based variational quantum classifier implemented with single photons and probabilistic gates, to emulate the standard quantum circuit model framework. We evaluate the expressive power of two deployable quantum neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Solomon McKiernan , Luca Sapienza

Quantum annealers have been designed to propose near-optimal solutions to NP-hard optimization problems. However, the accuracy of current annealers such as the ones of D-Wave Systems, Inc., is limited by environmental noise and hardware…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Aaron Barbosa , Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo N. Djidjev

In order to leverage quantum computers for machine learning tasks such as image classification, careful consideration is required: NISQ-era quantum computers have limitations, which include noise, scalability, read-in and read-out times,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Donovan Slabbert , Francesco Petruccione

Quantum machine learning with quantum kernels for classification problems is a growing area of research. Recently, quantum kernel alignment techniques that parameterise the kernel have been developed, allowing the kernel to be trained and…

Automation of feature analysis in the dynamic image frame dataset deals with complexity of intensity mapping with normal and abnormal class. The threshold-based data clustering and feature analysis requires iterative model to learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Aatif Jamshed , Bhawna Mallick , Rajendra Kumar Bharti

Binary Neural Networks (BiNNs), which employ single-bit precision weights, have emerged as a promising solution to reduce memory usage and power consumption while maintaining competitive performance in large-scale systems. However, training…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Luca Nepote , Alix Lhéritier , Nicolas Bondoux , Marios Kountouris , Maurizio Filippone

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) encounter significant challenges in realizing nonlinear behavior and effectively optimizing parameters. This study addresses these issues by modeling nonlinearity through a Taylor series expansion, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Ding-Dang Yang

Combinatorial optimization problems play a central role in computer science with many real world applications. A number of relevant problems remain computationally difficult to solve as they lie in the NP-hard complexity class. We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Kapil Goswami , Peter Schmelcher

Quantum Transfer Learning (QTL) recently gained popularity as a hybrid quantum-classical approach for image classification tasks by efficiently combining the feature extraction capabilities of large Convolutional Neural Networks with the…

Machine learning and quantum computing are two technologies each with the potential for altering how computation is performed to address previously untenable problems. Kernel methods for machine learning are ubiquitous for pattern…