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Combinatorial optimization problems for clustering are known to be NP-hard. Most optimization methods are not able to find the global optimum solution for all datasets. To solve this problem, we propose a global optimal path-based…
In this study, we propose a global optimization algorithm based on quantizing the energy level of an objective function in an NP-hard problem. According to the white noise hypothesis for a quantization error with a dense and uniform…
One of the challenges in optimization of high dimensional problems is finding appropriate solutions in a way that are as close as possible to the global optima. In this regard, one of the most common phenomena that occurs is the curse of…
Grover's algorithm is a quantum query algorithm solving the unstructured search problem of size $N$ using $O(\sqrt{N})$ queries. It provides a significant speed-up over any classical algorithm \cite{Gro96}. The running time of the…
In machine learning, nonconvex optimization problems with multiple local optimums are often encountered. Graduated Optimization Algorithm (GOA) is a popular heuristic method to obtain global optimums of nonconvex problems through…
Continuous search problems (CSPs), which involve finding solutions within a continuous domain, frequently arise in fields such as optimization, physics, and engineering. Unlike discrete search problems, CSPs require navigating an…
We investigate the implementation of an oracle for the Subset Sum problem for quantum search using Grover's algorithm. Our work concerns reducing the number of qubits, gates, and multi-controlled gates required by the oracle. We describe…
Metaheuristic algorithms are powerful tools for global optimization, particularly for non-convex and non-differentiable problems where exact methods are often impractical. Particle-based optimization methods, inspired by swarm intelligence…
Grover's algorithm is a well-known unstructured quantum search algorithm run on quantum computers. It constructs an oracle and calls the oracle O($\sqrt N$) times to locate specific data out of N unsorted data. This represents a quadratic…
Grover's algorithm provides a quadratic speedup over classical algorithms for searching unstructured databases and is known to be strictly optimal in oracle query complexity, with tight bounds on its success probability. Although the…
The goal of this paper is to set a constraint programming framework to solve lot-sizing problems. More specifically, we consider a single-item lot-sizing problem with time-varying lower and upper bounds for production and inventory. The…
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs), exhibiting state-of-the-art performance in both graph-structured and non-graph-structured domains. However, existing…
Searching a database is a central task in computer science and is paradigmatic of transport and optimization problems in physics. For an unstructured search, Grover's algorithm predicts a quadratic speedup, with the search time…
Many science and engineering applications feature non-convex optimization problems where the objective function can not be handled analytically, i.e. it is a black box. Examples include design optimization via experiments, or via costly…
Krentel [J. Comput. System. Sci., 36, pp.490--509] presented a framework for an NP optimization problem that searches an optimal value among exponentially-many outcomes of polynomial-time computations. This paper expands his framework to a…
A many-body Hamiltonian can be block-diagonalized by expressing it in terms of symmetry-adapted basis states. Finding the group orbit representatives of these basis states and their corresponding symmetries is currently a…
We propose a new globalization strategy that can be used in unconstrained optimization algorithms to support rapid convergence from remote starting points. Our approach is based on using multiple points at each iteration to build a…
A single machine total weighted tardiness minimization (TWTM) problem in operational planning is considered. The problem is formulated as an NP-hard constrained combinatorial problem, which has no known deterministic polynomial complexity…
This paper presents an enhancement to Grover's search algorithm for instances where the number of items (or the size of the search problem) $N$ is not a power of 2. By employing an efficient algorithm for the preparation of uniform quantum…
The improved quantum scheduling algorithm proposed by Grover has been generalized using the generalized quantum search algorithm, in which a unitary operator replaces the Walsh-Hadamard transform, and $\pi/2$ phase rotations replace the…