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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.…
Attaining a quantum speedup in solving practically useful optimization problems has been one of the holy grails in the field of quantum computing. While prior approaches have demonstrated speedups for certain structured problem classes,…
The Optimal Polynomial Intersection (OPI) problem is the following: Given sets $S_1, \ldots, S_m \subseteq \mathbb{F}$ and evaluation points $a_1, \ldots, a_m \in \mathbb{F}$, find a polynomial $Q \in \mathbb{F}[x]$ of degree less than $n$…
Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) is a recently introduced quantum algorithm that reduces discrete optimization to decoding with potential advantages over the best-known polynomial-time classical algorithms for certain Max-LINSAT…
We prove that a random linear code over F_q, with probability arbitrarily close to 1, is list decodable at radius (1-1/q-\epsilon) with list size L=O(1/\epsilon^2) and rate R=\Omega_q(\epsilon^2/(log^3(1/\epsilon))). Up to the…
A canonical feature of the constraint satisfaction problems in NP is approximation hardness, where in the worst case, finding sufficient-quality approximate solutions is exponentially hard for all known methods. Fundamentally, the lack of…
In this paper, we will find a pseudopolynomial algorithm to solve $Qm \mid \mid L_{\max}$ and then we will prove that it is impossible to get any constant-factor approximation in polynomial time, and thus also impossible to have a PTAS for…
Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) is a framework for approximating special kinds of discrete optimization problems that relies on problem structure in a way that sets it apart from other classical or quantum approaches. We show that the…
In this paper we focus on problems which do not admit a constant-factor approximation in polynomial time and explore how quickly their approximability improves as the allowed running time is gradually increased from polynomial to…
Recently, Jordan et al. (Nature, 2025) introduced a novel quantum-algorithmic technique called Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) for solving specific combinatorial optimization problems associated with classical codes. They presented a…
We study the performance of Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) on typical instances of MAX-$k$-XOR-SAT when the transpose of the constraint matrix is drawn from a standard ensemble of LDPC parity check matrices. We prove that if the…
Starting from a practical use of Reed-Solomon codes in a cryptographic scheme published in Indocrypt'09, this paper deals with the threshold of linear $q$-ary error-correcting codes. The security of this scheme is based on the…
In this work, we develop a framework aiming at designing quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems while providing theoretical guarantees on their approximation ratios. The principal innovative aspect of our work is the…
We study the complexity of Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI), a quantum algorithm for approximate optimization. First, we show that the algorithm resists classical simulation strategies based on locating outputs with large probabilities.…
Let $A$ be a random $m\times n$ matrix over the finite field $F_q$ with precisely $k$ non-zero entries per row and let $y\in F_q^m$ be a random vector chosen independently of $A$. We identify the threshold $m/n$ up to which the linear…
Achieving superpolynomial speedups for optimization has long been a central goal for quantum algorithms. Here we introduce Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI), a quantum algorithm that uses the quantum Fourier transform to reduce…
We examine the possibility of approximating Maximum Vertex-Disjoint Shortest Paths. In this problem, the input is an edge-weighted (directed or undirected) $n$-vertex graph $G$ along with $k$ terminal pairs…
We study the problem of computing the $p\rightarrow q$ norm of a matrix $A \in R^{m \times n}$, defined as \[ \|A\|_{p\rightarrow q} ~:=~ \max_{x \,\in\, R^n \setminus \{0\}} \frac{\|Ax\|_q}{\|x\|_p} \] This problem generalizes the spectral…
Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) is a recently proposed quantum optimization algorithm that exploits sparsity in the Fourier spectrum of objective functions, with the potential for exponential speedups over classical algorithms on…
We report a cluster of results regarding the difficulty of finding approximate ground states to typical instances of the quantum satisfiability problem $k$-QSAT on large random graphs. As an approximation strategy, we optimize the solution…