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most citedChallenges and Opportunities in Quantum Optimization

181 citations · 287 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Scaling Quantum Optimization to the Thousand-Qubit Scale with Distributed Quantum Sampling

Amana Liaqat, Ahmed Darwish, Stephen DiAdamo +6

The Minimum Birkhoff Decomposition (MBD) seeks a sparse weighted sum of matchings and is a challenging optimization problem with applications in network scheduling and energy tradi…

quant-ph2026

Constrained Quantum Optimization at Utility Scale: Application to the Knapsack Problem

Naeimeh Mohseni, Julien-Pierre Houle, Ibrahim Shehzad +3

Constrained combinatorial optimization problems are challenging for quantum computing, particularly at utility-relevant scales and on near-term hardware. At the same time, these pr…

quant-ph2025

Hierarchical divide and conquer quantum approach to combinatorial optimization problems with tunable reduction

Mathias Schmid, Naeimeh Mohseni, Michael J. Hartmann

Combinatorial optimization is considered a promising class of problems in which quantum computers can show significant advantages. However, problems of practical relevance typicall…

quant-ph2025

Boosting Sparsity in Graph Decompositions with QAOA Sampling

George Pennington, Naeimeh Mohseni, Oscar Wallis +5

We study the problem of decomposing a graph into a weighted sum of a small number of matchings, a task that arises in network resource allocation problems such as peer-to-peer ener…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Quantum Optimization Benchmarking Library - The Intractable Decathlon

Thorsten Koch, David E. Bernal Neira, Ying Chen +24

Through recent progress in hardware development, quantum computers have advanced to the point where benchmarking of (heuristic) quantum algorithms at scale is within reach. Particu…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Mitigating exponential concentration in covariant quantum kernels for subspace and real-world data

Gabriele Agliardi, Giorgio Cortiana, Anton Dekusar +6

Fidelity quantum kernels have shown promise in classification tasks, particularly when a group structure in the data can be identified and exploited through a covariant feature map…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Towards Less Greedy Quantum Coalition Structure Generation in Induced Subgraph Games

Jonas Nüßlein, Daniëlle Schuman, David Bucher +5

The transition to 100% renewable energy requires new techniques for managing energy networks, such as dividing them into sensible subsets of prosumers called micro-grids. Doing so…

math.OC2024★ 1 cited

A Machine Learning Approach to Boost the Vehicle-2-Grid Scheduling

Gabriele Agliardi, Giorgio Cortiana, Anton Dekusar +6

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are emerging as battery energy storage systems (BESSs) of increasing importance for different power grid services. However, the unique characteristics of EV…

quant-ph2024

Evaluating Quantum Optimization for Dynamic Self-Reliant Community Detection

David Bucher, Daniel Porawski, Benedikt Wimmer +5

Power grid partitioning is an important requirement for resilient distribution grids. Since electricity production is progressively shifted to the distribution side, dynamic identi…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Transfer learning in predicting quantum many-body dynamics: from physical observables to entanglement entropy

Philipp Schmidt, Florian Marquardt, Naeimeh Mohseni

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in extracting meaningful representations from complex datasets. This has propelled representation learning as a compellin…

quant-ph2024

Demonstrating Quantum Scaling Advantage in Approximate Optimization for Energy Coalition Formation with 100+ Agents

Naeimeh Mohseni, Thomas Morstyn, Corey O'Meara +3

The formation of energy communities is pivotal for advancing decentralized and sustainable energy management. Within this context, Coalition Structure Generation (CSG) emerges as a…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Quantum Optimization for the Future Energy Grid: Summary and Quantum Utility Prospects

Jonas Blenninger, David Bucher, Giorgio Cortiana +6

In this project summary paper, we summarize the key results and use-cases explored in the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funded project "Q-GRID" which aim…

quant-ph2023★ 181 cited

Challenges and Opportunities in Quantum Optimization

Amira Abbas, Andris Ambainis, Brandon Augustino +43

Recent advances in quantum computers are demonstrating the ability to solve problems at a scale beyond brute force classical simulation. As such, a widespread interest in quantum a…

quant-ph2023★ 12 cited

Deep learning of many-body observables and quantum information scrambling

Naeimeh Mohseni, Junheng Shi, Tim Byrnes +1

Machine learning has shown significant breakthroughs in quantum science, where in particular deep neural networks exhibited remarkable power in modeling quantum many-body systems.…

quant-ph2022

Ising machines as hardware solvers of combinatorial optimization problems

Naeimeh Mohseni, Peter L. McMahon, Tim Byrnes

Ising machines are hardware solvers which aim to find the absolute or approximate ground states of the Ising model. The Ising model is of fundamental computational interest because…

quant-ph2021★ 12 cited

Deep recurrent networks predicting the gap evolution in adiabatic quantum computing

Naeimeh Mohseni, Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch, Tim Byrnes +1

In adiabatic quantum computing finding the dependence of the gap of the Hamiltonian as a function of the parameter varied during the adiabatic sweep is crucial in order to optimize…

quant-ph2021★ 24 cited

Deep Learning of Quantum Many-Body Dynamics via Random Driving

Naeimeh Mohseni, Thomas Fösel, Lingzhen Guo +2

Neural networks have emerged as a powerful way to approach many practical problems in quantum physics. In this work, we illustrate the power of deep learning to predict the dynamic…

quant-ph2020★ 15 cited

Floquet theory for temporal correlations and spectra in time-periodic open quantum systems: Application to squeezed parametric oscillation beyond the rotating-wave approximation

C. Navarrete-Benlloch, R. Garcés, N. Mohseni +1

Open quantum systems can display periodic dynamics at the classical level either due to external periodic modulations or to self-pulsing phenomena typically following a Hopf bifurc…

quant-ph2019★ 17 cited

Error suppression in adiabatic quantum computing with qubit ensembles

Naeimeh Mohseni, Marek Narozniak, Alexey N. Pyrkov +3

Incorporating protection against quantum errors into adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) is an important task due to the inevitable presence of decoherence. Here we investigate an er…

quant-ph2018★ 18 cited

Deterministic generation of hybrid high-N00N states with Rydberg ions trapped in microwave cavities

Naeimeh Mohseni, Shahpoor Saeidian, Jonathan P. Dowling +1

Trapped ions are among the most promising platforms for quantum technologies. They are at the heart of the most precise clocks and sensors developed to date, which exploit the quan…