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most citedQuantum computing for finance

286 citations · 1.9k across the 63 of their papers we have counts for

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66 papers

quant-ph2026

Large-scale portfolio optimization on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Alejandro Gomez Cadavid, Ananth Kaushik, Pranav Chandarana +10

We present an end-to-end pipeline for large-scale portfolio selection with cardinality constraints and experimentally demonstrate it on trapped-ion quantum processors using hardwar…

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…

cs.LG2025

A Unified Framework for Provably Efficient Algorithms to Estimate Shapley Values

Tyler Chen, Akshay Seshadri, Mattia J. Villani +7

Shapley values have emerged as a critical tool for explaining which features impact the decisions made by machine learning models. However, computing exact Shapley values is diffic…

quant-ph2025

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-ph2025★ 3 cited

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-ph2025

Iceberg Beyond the Tip: Co-Compilation of a Quantum Error Detection Code and a Quantum Algorithm

Yuwei Jin, Zichang He, Tianyi Hao +5

The rapid progress in quantum hardware is expected to make them viable tools for the study of quantum algorithms in the near term. The timeline to useful algorithmic experimentatio…

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-ph2025

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-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-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-ph2025

qReduMIS: A Quantum-Informed Reduction Algorithm for the Maximum Independent Set Problem

Martin J. A. Schuetz, Romina Yalovetzky, Ruben S. Andrist +8

We propose and implement a quantum-informed reduction algorithm for the maximum independent set problem that integrates classical kernelization techniques with information extracte…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm in Finite Size and Large Depth and Equivalence to Quantum Annealing

Sami Boulebnane, James Sud, Ruslan Shaydulin +1

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) and quantum annealing are two of the most popular quantum optimization heuristics. While QAOA is known to be able to approxima…

quant-ph2025★ 19 cited

Tensor networks for quantum computing

Aleksandr Berezutskii, Minzhao Liu, Atithi Acharya +25

In the rapidly evolving field of quantum computing, tensor networks serve as an important tool due to their multifaceted utility. In this paper, we review the diverse applications…

quant-ph2025

Non-Variational Quantum Random Access Optimization with Alternating Operator Ansatz

Zichang He, Rudy Raymond, Ruslan Shaydulin +1

Solving hard optimization problems is one of the most promising application domains for quantum computers due to the ubiquity of such problems in industry and the availability of b…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Compilation Toolkit for Rydberg Atom Arrays with Implications for Problem Hardness and Quantum Speedups

Martin J. A. Schuetz, Ruben S. Andrist, Grant Salton +7

We propose and implement a comprehensive quantum compilation toolkit for solving the maximum independent set (MIS) problem on quantum hardware based on Rydberg atom arrays. Our end…

quant-ph2024

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…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Adaptive and Robust Watermark for Generative Tabular Data

Dung Daniel Ngo, Archan Ray, Akshay Seshadri +6

In recent years, watermarking generative tabular data has become a prominent framework to protect against the misuse of synthetic data. However, while most prior work in watermarki…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Performance of Quantum Approximate Optimization with Quantum Error Detection

Zichang He, David Amaro, Ruslan Shaydulin +1

Quantum algorithms must be scaled up to tackle real-world applications. Doing so requires overcoming the noise present on today's hardware. The quantum approximate optimization alg…

math.OC2024★ 6 cited

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-ph2024★ 7 cited

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-ph2024★ 2 cited

End-to-End Protocol for High-Quality QAOA Parameters with Few Shots

Tianyi Hao, Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin +2

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a quantum heuristic for combinatorial optimization that has been demonstrated to scale better than state-of-the-art classic…

quant-ph2024

QC-Forest: a Classical-Quantum Algorithm to Provably Speedup Retraining of Random Forest

Romina Yalovetzky, Niraj Kumar, Changhao Li +1

Random Forest (RF) is a popular tree-ensemble method for supervised learning, prized for its ease of use and flexibility. Online RF models require to account for new training data…

quant-ph2024★ 32 cited

The computational power of random quantum circuits in arbitrary geometries

Matthew DeCross, Reza Haghshenas, Minzhao Liu +49

Empirical evidence for a gap between the computational powers of classical and quantum computers has been provided by experiments that sample the output distributions of two-dimens…

cs.LG2024

Model-Agnostic Utility-Preserving Biometric Information Anonymization

Chun-Fu Chen, Bill Moriarty, Shaohan Hu +4

The recent rapid advancements in both sensing and machine learning technologies have given rise to the universal collection and utilization of people's biometrics, such as fingerpr…