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most citedmRNA secondary structure prediction using utility-scale quantum computers

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quant-ph2026

Towards Natural Gas Contract Selection via Quantum-Guided Independent Set Reduction

Vivek Dixit, Vaibhaw Kumar, Kentaro Ohno +2

Selecting mutually compatible natural gas transportation contracts is a practically important optimization task in which operators must choose from many candidate agreements subjec…

quant-ph2026

A Quantum Approach to Stochastic Optimization in Insurance Underwriting

Mitchell Bordelon, Maurice Garfinkel, Vivek Dixit +7

The presence of stochastic elements in combinatorial optimization problems makes them particularly challenging, as such problems quickly become intractable for classical computers…

quant-ph2026

Pauli Correlation Encoding for mRNA Secondary Structure Prediction: Problem-Aware Decoding for Dense-Constraint QUBOs

Triet Friedhoff, Mihir Metkar, Wade Davis +2

Pauli Correlation Encoding (PCE) compresses binary variables onto qubits by mapping them to commuting Pauli correlators, but its continuous expectation values mu…

quant-ph2025

Portfolio construction using a sampling-based variational quantum scheme

Gabriele Agliardi, Dimitris Alevras, Vaibhaw Kumar +5

The efficient and effective construction of portfolios that adhere to real-world constraints is a challenging optimization task in finance. We investigate a concrete representation…

quant-ph2025

Co-optimization of codon usage and mRNA secondary structure using quantum computing

Dimitris Alevras, Mihir Metkar, Triet Friedhoff +5

Co-optimizing mRNA sequences for both codon optimality and secondary structure is crucial for producing stable and efficacious mRNA therapeutics. Codon optimization, which adjusts…

quant-ph2025

Towards secondary structure prediction of longer mRNA sequences using a quantum-centric optimization scheme

Vaibhaw Kumar, Dimitris Alevras, Mihir Metkar +9

Accurate prediction of mRNA secondary structure is critical for understanding gene expression, translation efficiency, and advancing mRNA-based therapeutics. However, the combinato…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

mRNA secondary structure prediction using utility-scale quantum computers

Dimitris Alevras, Mihir Metkar, Takahiro Yamamoto +7

Recent advancements in quantum computing have opened new avenues for tackling long-standing complex combinatorial optimization problems that are intractable for classical computers…