arXiv:2607. 20225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While combinatorial optimization problems are central to many scientific and engineering applications, their solution remains challenging due to exponentially large search spaces.
By Seongmin Kim, Abhinav Rijal, Yuri Alexeev, Nora Bauer, Martin Roetteler, Mina Yoon, George Siopsis, In-Saeng Suh
arXiv:2607. 22549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid quantum-classical protein structure prediction depends strongly on Hamiltonian penalty weights, yet existing lattice-based workflows typically fix these coefficients by hand and evaluate only very short fragments in simulation.
By Winson Chen, Yuqi Zhang, Sixu Chen, Nuo Xu, Qiang Guan, Caiwen Ding
arXiv:2602. 23409v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Angle-encoded variational quantum circuits admit a truncated Fourier series representation of their output, but approximating functions with maximum frequency $\omega_{\max}$ using fixed unary encoding requires $\mathcal{O}(\omega_{\max})$ encoding gates.
By Michael Poppel, Markus Baumann, Sebastian W\"olckert, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Jonas Stein
arXiv:2607. 08791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing effective multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) algorithms requires balancing many interdependent design choices whose optimal configuration is problem-dependent and typically demands deep expertise.
By Georgios Laskaris, Reuben Brasher, Niki van Stein, Elena Raponi, Thomas B\"ack, Florian Neukart
arXiv:2607. 14618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: CPUs are the most universal target for on-device LLM inference, but existing low-bit quantization methods offer either coarse operating points or fine-grained mixed precision that is difficult to execute efficiently on CPUs.
By Hyunwoo Oh, Suyeon Jang, Hanning Chen, KyungIn Nam, Sanggeon Yun, Ryozo Masukawa, Mohsen Imani
arXiv:2608. 05610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: QAOA training repeatedly queries an objective and all shared gradients, making exact evaluation a feasibility bottleneck even when QUBO terms have bounded causal cones.
By Chih-Chung Hsu
arXiv:2607. 17240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When does a committed intermediate stage in an LLM reasoning pipeline earn its cost?
By Honglin Li (ShanghaiTech University)
arXiv:2606. 07666v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors are entering an early fault-tolerance regime where full quantum error correction carries prohibitive resource costs, yet lightweight error detection can meaningfully improve algorithmic success rates.
By Sumit Chongder (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur)
arXiv:2607. 12780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum circuit optimization for fault-tolerant computing requires exact functional equivalence while minimizing expensive non-Clifford resources such as T gates.
By Mehdi Saeedi, Eddie Richter, Paul Hartke
arXiv:2607. 09737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Molecular docking predicts how a small molecule binds to a protein and is a key bottleneck in drug discovery.
By Kangyu Zheng, Yidong Zhou, Ruihao Li, Zixin Ding, Zhiding Liang, Shaohua Li
arXiv:2606. 09864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Key-value (KV) cache quantization is widely used to reduce Large Language Model (LLM) inference memory, yet existing evaluations solely focus on measuring perplexity and accuracy without assessing the safety impact.
By Bruce Changlong Xu, Adarsh Kumarappan, Mu Zhou
arXiv:2508. 20134v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Programming quantum circuits at the OpenQASM level is essential for achieving hardware-aware optimization and reliable execution on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, yet it remains challenging due to the need for domain-specific planning, iterative code synthesis, and low-level calibration.
By Zhenxiao Fu, Lei Jiang, Yilun Xu, Gang Huang, Fan Chen