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Optimized QUBO formulation methods for quantum computing

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Dario De Santis *
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Salvatore Tirone
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Stefano Marmi
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Vittorio Giovannetti
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Quantum computers have strict requirements for the problems that they can efficiently solve. One of the principal limiting factor for the performances of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices is the number of qubits required by the running algorithm. Several combinatorial optimization problems can be solved with NISQ devices once that a corresponding quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) form is derived. Numerous techniques have been proposed to achieve such reformulations and, depending on the method chosen, the number of binary variables required, and therefore of qubits, can vary considerably. The aim of this work is to drastically reduce the variables needed for these QUBO reformulations in order to unlock the possibility to efficiently obtain optimal solutions for a class of optimization problems with NISQ devices. This goal is achieved by introducing novel tools that allow an efficient use of slack variables, even for problems with non-linear constraints, without the need to approximate the starting problem. We divide our new techniques in two independent parts, called the iterative quadratic polynomial and the master-satellite methods. Hence, we show how to apply our techniques in case of an NP-hard optimization problem inspired by a real-world financial scenario called Max-Profit Balance Settlement. We follow by submitting several instances of this problem to two D-wave quantum annealers, comparing the performances of our novel approach with the standard methods used in these scenarios. Moreover, this study allows to appreciate several performance differences between the D-wave Advantage and next-generation Advantage2 quantum annealers. We show that the adoption of our techniques in this context allows to obtain QUBO formulations with significantly fewer slack variables, i.e. around 90% less, and D-wave annealers provide considerably higher correct solution rates, which moreover do not decrease with the input size as fast as when adopting standard techniques.
Keyword:
Quantum computing
QUBO formulation
NISQ devices
slack variables
quantum annealing
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