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@ARTICLE{Schulz:1047391,
author = {Schulz, Sebastian and Willsch, Dennis and Michielsen,
Kristel},
title = {{L}earning-{D}riven {A}nnealing with {A}daptive
{H}amiltonian {M}odification for {S}olving {L}arge-{S}cale
{P}roblems on {Q}uantum {D}evices},
journal = {Quantum},
volume = {9},
issn = {2521-327X},
address = {Wien},
publisher = {Verein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den
Quantenwissenschaften},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-04277},
pages = {1898},
year = {2025},
abstract = {We present Learning-Driven Annealing (LDA), a framework
that links individual quantum annealing evolutions into a
global solution strategy to mitigate hardware constraints
such as short annealing times and integrated control errors.
Unlike other iterative methods, LDA does not tune the
annealing procedure (e.g. annealing time or annealing
schedule), but instead learns about the problem structure to
adaptively modify the problem Hamiltonian. By deforming the
instantaneous energy spectrum, LDA suppresses transitions
into high-energy states and focuses the evolution into
low-energy regions of the Hilbert space. We demonstrate the
efficacy of LDA by developing a hybrid quantum-classical
solver for large-scale spin glasses. The hybrid solver is
based on a comprehensive study of the internal structure of
spin glasses, outperforming other quantum and classical
algorithms (e.g., reverse annealing, cyclic annealing,
simulated annealing, Gurobi, Toshiba's SBM, VeloxQ and
D-Wave hybrid) on 5580-qubit problem instances in both
runtime and lowest energy. LDA is a step towards practical
quantum computation that enables today's quantum devices to
compete with classical solvers.},
cin = {JSC},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
pnm = {5111 - Domain-Specific Simulation $\&$ Data Life Cycle Labs
(SDLs) and Research Groups (POF4-511)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5111},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.22331/q-2025-10-29-1898},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1047391},
}