2 papers
quant-ph2026
Benchmarking Swarm Optimization Algorithms for Parameter Initialization in the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm
Shashank Sanjay Bhat, Peiyong Wang, Udaya Parampalli
The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a prominent variational algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems such as the Max Cut problem. A key challe…
quant-ph2026
Encoding Matters: Benchmarking Binary and D-ary Representations for Quantum Combinatorial Optimization
Shashank Sanjay Bhat, Peiyong Wang, Joseph West +1
Combinatorial optimization problems are typically formulated using Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO), where constraints are enforced through penalty terms that int…