Quantum-enhanced greedy combinatorial optimization solver

M Dupont, B Evert, MJ Hodson, B Sundar, S Jeffrey… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Combinatorial optimization is a broadly attractive area for potential quantum advantage, but
no quantum algorithm has yet made the leap. Noise in quantum hardware remains a …

Solving non-native combinatorial optimization problems using hybrid quantum-classical algorithms

J Wurtz, SH Sack, ST Wang - IEEE Transactions on Quantum …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Combinatorial optimization is a challenging problem applicable in a wide range of fields
from logistics to finance. Recently, quantum computing has been used to attempt to solve …

Reinforcement quantum annealing: A hybrid quantum learning automata

R Ayanzadeh, M Halem, T Finin - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
We introduce the notion of reinforcement quantum annealing (RQA) scheme in which an
intelligent agent searches in the space of Hamiltonians and interacts with a quantum …

A survey on compressive sensing: Classical results and recent advancements

A Mousavi, M Rezaee, R Ayanzadeh - arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.01014, 2019 - arxiv.org
Recovering sparse signals from linear measurements has demonstrated outstanding utility
in a vast variety of real-world applications. Compressive sensing is the topic that studies the …

Frozenqubits: Boosting fidelity of QAOA by skipping hotspot nodes

R Ayanzadeh, N Alavisamani, P Das… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is one of the leading candidates for
demonstrating the quantum advantage using near-term quantum computers. Unfortunately …

Iterative quantum algorithms for maximum independent set

LT Brady, S Hadfield - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Quantum algorithms have been widely studied in the context of combinatorial optimization
problems. While this endeavor can often analytically and practically achieve quadratic …

How viable is quantum annealing for solving linear algebra problems?

A Borle, SJ Lomonaco - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10576, 2022 - arxiv.org
With the increasing popularity of quantum computing and in particular quantum annealing,
there has been growing research to evaluate the meta-heuristic for various problems in …

Multi-qubit correction for quantum annealers

R Ayanzadeh, J Dorband, M Halem, T Finin - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We present multi-qubit correction (MQC) as a novel postprocessing method for quantum
annealers that views the evolution in an open-system as a Gibbs sampler and reduces a set …

An ensemble approach for compressive sensing with quantum annealers

R Ayanzadeh, M Halem, T Finin - IGARSS 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We leverage the idea of a statistical ensemble to improve the quality of quantum annealing
based binary compressive sensing. Since executing quantum machine instructions on a …

EQUAL: Improving the fidelity of quantum annealers by injecting controlled perturbations

R Ayanzadeh, P Das, S Tannu… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum computing is an information processing paradigm that uses quantum-mechanical
properties to speedup computationally hard problems. Gate-based quantum computers and …