Custom unembedding algorithms for Quantum Annealing

Repository for the paper Advanced unembedding techniques for quantum annealers

• QUBO_Ising_formulation_generators.py contains functions which can generate QUBOs or Isings for the four NP-Hard problems that are studied, given in an input Networkx graph.
• custom_Minimum_Vertex_Cover_unembed.py contains all source code for the custom unembedding algorithm for quantum annealer samples from minor embedded Minimum Vertex Cover problems
• custom_Graph_Partitioning_unembed.py contains all source code for the custom unembedding algorithm for quantum annealer samples from minor embedded Graph Partitioning problems
• custom_Maximum_Cut_unembed.py contains all source code for the custom unembedding algorithm for quantum annealer samples from minor embedded Maximum Cut problems
• custom_Minimum_Vertex_Cover_unembed.py contains all source code for the custom unembedding algorithm for quantum annealer samples from minor embedded Maximum Clique problems

Authors

• Elijah Pelofske: Information Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Georg Hahn: T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
• Hristo Djidjev: Information Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria

How to cite?

@article{Pelofske_2020_unembedding,
	doi = {10.1109/icrc2020.2020.00001},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1109%2Ficrc2020.2020.00001},
	archiveprefix = {arXiv},
	eprint = {2009.05028},
	year = {2020},
	month = {dec},
	publisher = {{IEEE}},
	author = {Elijah Pelofske and Georg Hahn and Hristo Djidjev},
	title = {Advanced unembedding techniques for quantum annealers},  
	booktitle = {2020 International Conference on Rebooting Computing ({ICRC})}
}

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