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From Quantum Tunneling to Classical Optimization through Instantons
Jiayu Shen, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul +5
We use an instanton-based analysis to show that Path Integral Stochastic Gradient Descent (PISGD), a classical optimization algorithm instantiated from path integral Monte Carlo (P…
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Quantum-Informed Portfolio Selection: An End-to-End Pipeline Validated on Trapped-Ion Hardware with Real Market Data
Romina Yalovetzky, Martin J. A. Schuetz, Zichang He +11
Portfolio diversification - a cornerstone of modern investment management - can be formulated as a Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem on asset correlation graphs. Solving this p…