Milestones on the quantum utility highway: Quantum annealing case study

CC McGeoch, P Farré - ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We introduce quantum utility, a new approach to evaluating quantum performance that aims
to capture the user experience by considering the overhead costs associated with a …

Milestones on the quantum utility highway

C McGeoch, P Farré - 2022 IEEE/ACM 7th Symposium on Edge …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We define the quantum utility performance metric and three milestones, which define
quantum utility as measured in some limited context. Current and previous-generation …

Diversity metric for evaluation of quantum annealing

A Zucca, H Sadeghi, M Mohseni, MH Amin - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Solving discrete NP-hard problems is an important part of scientific discoveries and
operations research as well as many commercial applications. A commonly used metric to …

Optimization applications as quantum performance benchmarks

T Lubinski, C Coffrin, C McGeoch, P Sathe… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Combinatorial optimization is anticipated to be one of the primary use cases for quantum
computation in the coming years. The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and …

HamilToniQ: An Open-Source Benchmark Toolkit for Quantum Computers

X Xu, KC Chen, R Wille - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13971, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we introduce HamilToniQ, an open-source, and application-oriented
benchmarking toolkit for the comprehensive evaluation of Quantum Processing Units …

QPLEX: Realizing the Integration of Quantum Computing into Combinatorial Optimization Software

J Giraldo, J Ossorio, NM Villegas… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum computing has the potential to surpass the capabilities of current classical
computers when solving complex problems. Combinatorial optimization has emerged as …

Quantum utility–definition and assessment of a practical quantum advantage

N Herrmann, D Arya, MW Doherty… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several benchmarks have been proposed to holistically measure quantum computing
performance. While some have focused on the end user's perspective (eg, in application …

A comment on comparing optimization on D-Wave and IBM quantum processors

CC McGeoch, K Chern, P Farré, AK King - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19351, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent work [Sachdeva et al.] presented an iterative hybrid quantum variational optimization
algorithm designed by Q-CTRL and executed on IBM gate-based quantum processing units …

Benchmarking quantum computers

T Proctor, K Young, AD Baczewski… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The rapid pace of development in quantum computing technology has sparked a
proliferation of benchmarks for assessing the performance of quantum computing hardware …

Approaching Quantum Utility by Leveraging Quantum Software Stack

M Tsymbalista, M Maksymenko… - 2023 IEEE 13th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Improvement in Quantum Computing (QC) performance will allow us to solve a wide range
of complex problems that classical computers of today can't handle. Nowadays we feel …