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most citedPerformance comparison of optimization methods on variational quantum algorithms

109 citations · 188 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Quantum generative modeling for financial time series with temporal correlations

David Dechant, Eliot Schwander, Lucas van Drooge +4

Quantum generative adversarial networks (QGANs) have been investigated as a method for generating synthetic data with the goal of augmenting training data sets for neural networks.…

quant-ph2025

Evaluation of derivatives using approximate generalized parameter shift rule

Vytautas Abramavicius, Evan Philip, Kaonan Micadei +5

Parameter shift rules are instrumental for derivatives estimation in a wide range of quantum algorithms, especially in the context of Quantum Machine Learning. Application of singl…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

Application of quantum-inspired generative models to small molecular datasets

C. Moussa, H. Wang, M. Araya-Polo +2

Quantum and quantum-inspired machine learning has emerged as a promising and challenging research field due to the increased popularity of quantum computing, especially with near-t…

quant-ph2022★ 10 cited

Resource frugal optimizer for quantum machine learning

Charles Moussa, Max Hunter Gordon, Michal Baczyk +3

Quantum-enhanced data science, also known as quantum machine learning (QML), is of growing interest as an application of near-term quantum computers. Variational QML algorithms hav…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Hyperparameter Importance of Quantum Neural Networks Across Small Datasets

Charles Moussa, Jan N. van Rijn, Thomas Bäck +1

As restricted quantum computers are slowly becoming a reality, the search for meaningful first applications intensifies. In this domain, one of the more investigated approaches is…

quant-ph2022

Unsupervised strategies for identifying optimal parameters in Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Charles Moussa, Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck +1

As combinatorial optimization is one of the main quantum computing applications, many methods based on parameterized quantum circuits are being developed. In general, a set of para…

quant-ph2021★ 109 cited

Performance comparison of optimization methods on variational quantum algorithms

Xavier Bonet-Monroig, Hao Wang, Diederick Vermetten +5

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) offer a promising path toward using near-term quantum hardware for applications in academic and industrial research. These algorithms aim to f…

quant-ph2020★ 3 cited

Tabu-driven Quantum Neighborhood Samplers

Charles Moussa, Hao Wang, Henri Calandra +2

Combinatorial optimization is an important application targeted by quantum computing. However, near-term hardware constraints make quantum algorithms unlikely to be competitive whe…

quant-ph2020★ 43 cited

To quantum or not to quantum: towards algorithm selection in near-term quantum optimization

Charles Moussa, Henri Calandra, Vedran Dunjko

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) constitutes one of the often mentioned candidates expected to yield a quantum boost in the era of near-term quantum computing.…

quant-ph2019

Function Maximization with Dynamic Quantum Search

Charles Moussa, Henri Calandra, Travis S. Humble

Finding the maximum value of a function in a dynamic model plays an important role in many application settings, including discrete optimization in the presence of hard constraints…