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12 papers

quant-ph2026

Efficient Compilation for Shuttling Trapped-Ion Machines via the Position Graph Architectural Abstraction

Bao Bach, Ilya Safro, Ed Younis

With the growth of quantum platforms for gate-based quantum computation, compilation holds a crucial role in deciding the success of the implementation. While there has been rich r…

quant-ph2026

Constrained Counterdiabatic Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm for Portfolio Optimization

Jose Falla, Ilya Safro

We introduce a counterdiabatic (CD) extension of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for constrained portfolio optimization. By incorporating approximate adiabati…

quant-ph2026

Reductions of QAOA Induced by Classical Symmetries: Theoretical Insights and Practical Implications

Boris Tsvelikhovskiy, Bao Bach, Jose Falla +1

The performance of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is closely tied to the structure of the dynamical Lie algebra (DLA) generated by its Hamiltonians, which de…

quant-ph2026

Optimal fermion-qubit mappings via quadratic assignment

Mitchell Chiew, Cameron Ibrahim, Ilya Safro +1

Simulation of fermionic systems is one of the most promising applications of quantum computers. It spans problems in quantum chemistry, high-energy physics and condensed matter. Un…

quant-ph2025

Neural Architecture Search Algorithms for Quantum Autoencoders

Ankit Kulshrestha, Xiaoyuan Liu, Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa +1

The design of quantum circuits is currently driven by the specific objectives of the quantum algorithm in question. This approach thus relies on a significant manual effort by the…

cs.IR2025

Biomedical Hypothesis Explainability with Graph-Based Context Retrieval

Ilya Tyagin, Saeideh Valipour, Aliaksandra Sikirzhytskaya +2

We introduce an explainability method for biomedical hypothesis generation systems, built on top of the novel Hypothesis Generation Context Retriever framework. Our approach combin…