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Publications (29)

math.OC2024

Decomposition Pipeline for Large-Scale Portfolio Optimization with Applications to Near-Term Quantum Computing

Atithi Acharya, Romina Yalovetzky, Pierre Minssen +10

Industrially relevant constrained optimization problems, such as portfolio optimization and portfolio rebalancing, are often intractable or difficult to solve exactly. In this work…

quant-ph2025

Mechanisms for Quantum Advantage in Global Optimization of Nonconvex Functions

Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul, Anuj Apte +4

We present new theoretical mechanisms for quantum speedup in the global optimization of nonconvex functions, expanding the scope of quantum advantage beyond traditional tunneling-b…

quant-ph2024

Parameter Setting Heuristics Make the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Suitable for the Early Fault-Tolerant Era

Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Dylan Herman +4

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is one of the most promising quantum heuristics for combinatorial optimization. While QAOA has been shown to perform well on small…

quant-ph2026

Iterative Interpolation Schedules for Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Anuj Apte, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Ruslan Shaydulin +5

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a promising quantum heuristic with empirical evidence of speedup over classical state-of-the-art for some problems. QAOA uses a…

quant-ph2026

Fault-tolerant execution of error-corrected quantum algorithms

Michael A. Perlin, Zichang He, Anthony Alexiades Armenakas +9

Scaling up quantum algorithms to tackle high-impact problems in science and industry requires quantum error correction and fault tolerance. While progress has been made in experime…

cs.DS2025

A simple analysis of a quantum-inspired algorithm for solving low-rank linear systems

Tyler Chen, Junhyung Lyle Kim, Archan Ray +3

We describe and analyze a simple algorithm for sampling from the solution to a linear system . We assume…

quant-ph2024

Prospects of Privacy Advantage in Quantum Machine Learning

Jamie Heredge, Niraj Kumar, Dylan Herman +5

Ensuring data privacy in machine learning models is critical, particularly in distributed settings where model gradients are typically shared among multiple parties to allow collab…

quant-ph2024

Solving Linear Systems on Quantum Hardware with Hybrid HHL++

Romina Yalovetzky, Pierre Minssen, Dylan Herman +1

The limited capabilities of current quantum hardware significantly constrain the scale of experimental demonstrations of most quantum algorithmic primitives. This makes it challeng…

quant-ph2022

Constrained Quantum Optimization for Extractive Summarization on a Trapped-ion Quantum Computer

Pradeep Niroula, Ruslan Shaydulin, Romina Yalovetzky +4

Realizing the potential of near-term quantum computers to solve industry-relevant constrained-optimization problems is a promising path to quantum advantage. In this work, we consi…

quant-ph2025

Generalized Short Path Algorithms: Towards Super-Quadratic Speedup over Markov Chain Search for Combinatorial Optimization

Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul +6

We analyze generalizations of quantum algorithms based on the short path framework first proposed by Hastings~[\textit{Quantum} 2, 78 (2018)], which has been extended and shown by…

quant-ph2022

A Survey of Quantum Computing for Finance

Dylan Herman, Cody Googin, Xiaoyuan Liu +5

Quantum computers are expected to surpass the computational capabilities of classical computers during this decade and have transformative impact on numerous industry sectors, part…

quant-ph2023

Constrained Optimization via Quantum Zeno Dynamics

Dylan Herman, Ruslan Shaydulin, Yue Sun +6

Constrained optimization problems are ubiquitous in science and industry. Quantum algorithms have shown promise in solving optimization problems, yet none of the current algorithms…

quant-ph2024

Evidence of Scaling Advantage for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on a Classically Intractable Problem

Ruslan Shaydulin, Changhao Li, Shouvanik Chakrabarti +26

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a leading candidate algorithm for solving optimization problems on quantum computers. However, the potential of QAOA to tac…

quant-ph2025

Provably faster randomized and quantum algorithms for -means clustering via uniform sampling

Tyler Chen, Archan Ray, Akshay Seshadri +6

The -means algorithm (Lloyd's algorithm) is a widely used method for clustering unlabeled data. A key bottleneck of the -means algorithm is that each iteration requires time…

quant-ph2026

Spin-Boson Mapping of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Sami Boulebnane, Abid Khan, Minzhao Liu +4

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) achieves monotonically improving performance with circuit depth , yet the study of the high-depth regime has been obstructe…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Speedups for Derivative Pricing Beyond Black-Scholes

Dylan Herman, Yue Sun, Jin-Peng Liu +5

This paper explores advancements in quantum algorithms for derivative pricing of exotics, a computational pipeline of fundamental importance in quantitative finance. For such cases…

quant-ph2024

Alignment between Initial State and Mixer Improves QAOA Performance for Constrained Optimization

Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti +4

Quantum alternating operator ansatz (QAOA) has a strong connection to the adiabatic algorithm, which it can approximate with sufficient depth. However, it is unclear to what extent…

quant-ph2025

Fast Convex Optimization with Quantum Gradient Methods

Brandon Augustino, Dylan Herman, Enrico Fontana +4

We study quantum algorithms based on quantum (sub)gradient estimation using noisy function evaluation oracles, and demonstrate the first dimension-independent query complexities (u…

quant-ph2024

The Adjoint Is All You Need: Characterizing Barren Plateaus in Quantum Ansätze

Enrico Fontana, Dylan Herman, Shouvanik Chakrabarti +5

Using tools from the representation theory of compact Lie groups, we formulate a theory of Barren Plateaus (BPs) for parameterized quantum circuits whose observables lie in their d…

quant-ph2023

Expressivity of Variational Quantum Machine Learning on the Boolean Cube

Dylan Herman, Rudy Raymond, Muyuan Li +3

Categorical data plays an important part in machine learning research and appears in a variety of applications. Models that can express large classes of real-valued functions on th…

quant-ph2021

Quantum Machine Learning for Finance

Marco Pistoia, Syed Farhan Ahmad, Akshay Ajagekar +10

Quantum computers are expected to surpass the computational capabilities of classical computers during this decade, and achieve disruptive impact on numerous industry sectors, part…

quant-ph2023

Quantum computing for finance

Dylan Herman, Cody Googin, Xiaoyuan Liu +5

Quantum computers are expected to surpass the computational capabilities of classical computers and have a transformative impact on numerous industry sectors. We present a comprehe…

quant-ph2024

Parameter Setting in Quantum Approximate Optimization of Weighted Problems

Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Dylan Herman, Ruslan Shaydulin +4

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a leading candidate algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems on quantum computers. However, in many cases QAOA…

quant-ph2024

Hardness of the Maximum Independent Set Problem on Unit-Disk Graphs and Prospects for Quantum Speedups

Ruben S. Andrist, Martin J. A. Schuetz, Pierre Minssen +9

Rydberg atom arrays are among the leading contenders for the demonstration of quantum speedups. Motivated by recent experiments with up to 289 qubits [Ebadi et al., Science 376, 12…

quant-ph2025

On Speedups for Convex Optimization via Quantum Dynamics

Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Jacob Watkins +4

We explore the potential for quantum speedups in convex optimization using discrete simulations of the Quantum Hamiltonian Descent (QHD) framework, as proposed by Leng et al., and…

quant-ph2024

Quantum option pricing via the Karhunen-Loève expansion

Anupam Prakash, Yue Sun, Shouvanik Chakrabarti +8

We consider the problem of pricing discretely monitored Asian options over monitoring points where the underlying asset is modeled by a geometric Brownian motion. We provide tw…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Speedups for Group Relaxations of Integer Linear Programs

Brandon Augustino, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul +5

Integer Linear Programs (ILPs) are a flexible and ubiquitous model for discrete optimization problems. Solving ILPs is \textsf{NP-Hard} yet of great practical importance. Super-qua…

quant-ph2025

Threshold for Fault-tolerant Quantum Advantage with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Zichang He, Zhiwei Zhang +9

Optimization is often cited as a promising application of quantum computers. However, the low degree of provable quantum speedups has led prior rigorous end-to-end resource analyse…

quant-ph2023

Quantum Deep Hedging

El Amine Cherrat, Snehal Raj, Iordanis Kerenidis +12

Quantum machine learning has the potential for a transformative impact across industry sectors and in particular in finance. In our work we look at the problem of hedging where dee…