Rigetti's new variational algorithm encodes N classical variables into significantly fewer qubits via entangled states, reducing hardware overhead for combinatorial optimization on near-term and fault-tolerant quantum systems.

Rigetti's new variational algorithm encodes N classical variables into significantly fewer qubits via entangled states, reducing hardware overhead for combinatorial optimization on near-term and fault-tolerant quantum systems.
Novel inverse-design workflow combines graph neural networks and binary variational autoencoders to efficiently discover high-entropy alloys optimized for target properties, directly exportable as QUBO problems for quantum optimization.
Researchers identified necessary and sufficient conditions for Arimoto-Blahut algorithms to achieve global optimality in quantum information problems using constraint normal space analysis, surpassing previous methods limited to numerical stability.
Rigetti researchers developed a qubit-efficient quantum optimization algorithm that stores multiple classical variables per qubit, achieving exponential qubit savings with manageable circuit depth increases. Demonstrated on a 9-qubit processor.
Improved quantum state preparation algorithm reduces Toffoli gate overhead by ~log(s)/2 for sparse states. Critical for quantum simulation and linear-system solvers on near-term devices.
Researchers show PCE's performance bottleneck is trainability, not expressivity. A new multistage optimization framework achieving competitive results on large Max-Cut problems with minimal qubits.
USMEA algorithm enables players to jointly learn unitary quantum actions and classical mixing probabilities in multiplayer quantum games with proven convergence guarantees on Riemannian manifolds.
Establishes near-linear quantum query lower bounds for high-accuracy convex optimization, resolving open problems. Introduces novel Fourier-rank methods with implications for determinant computation and eigenvalue estimation.
UC Berkeley researchers demonstrate Block Gibbs Sampling approach to scale probabilistic Ising accelerators, achieving ~1000x speedup on Max-Cut optimization and 4+ orders of magnitude acceleration for quantum simulations versus GPUs.
Researchers proved quantum imaginary time evolution converges to global minima with linear scaling in system size, offering a practical solution to exponential resource scaling that limits quantum algorithms.
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) patent filing presents optimized integer linear programming formulations for quantum computing devices, enabling efficient qubit-based solutions to complex optimization problems.
Researchers developed an algebraic approach using qudits to solve complex optimization problems more efficiently, bypassing exponential scaling challenges through representation theory and deriving exact solutions for quantum network Hamiltonians.
Dominance-aware clustering method advances quantum error mitigation for optimization algorithms. Uses classical post-processing to reliably recover high-quality bitstrings with logarithmic shot complexity, outperforming existing techniques.
Rigetti and Purdue researchers demonstrated quantum preconditioning using QAOA correlations to accelerate classical MIP solvers to near-optimal solutions ~100× faster on constrained combinatorial problems, with majority gains at shallow circuit depth.