Signs for a Potential Quantum Advantage in Optimization

Presentations

• Scaling Advantage in Approximate Optimization with Quantum Annealing

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: Scaling Advantage in Approximate Optimization with Quantum Annealing. Humberto Munoz-Bauza and Daniel Lidar. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 160601 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Humberto Munoz Bauza

    • D-Wave Systems

  Authors

  • Humberto Munoz Bauza

    • D-Wave Systems

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• Optimization by Decoded Quantum Interferometry

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: Nature 646:831-836, 2025 [arXiv:2408.08292]

  Presenters

  • Stephen Jordan

    • Google

  Authors

  • Stephen Jordan

    • Google

  • Noah Shutty

    • Google Quantum AI

  • Mary Wootters

  • Adam Zalcman

    • Google Quantum AI

  • Alexander Schmidhuber

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Robbie King

  • Sergei Isakov

  • Tanuj Khattar

    • Google LLC

  • Ryan Babbush

    • Google LLC

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• Towards quantum advantage by classical solving quantum-preconditioned problems

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: Phys. Rev. A 109, 012429 (2024), Phys. Rev. Applied 23, 014045 (2025), and Phys. Rev. Applied 24, 044013 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Bhuvanesh Sundar

    • Rigetti Computing

  Authors

  • Bhuvanesh Sundar

    • Rigetti Computing

  • Maxime Dupont

    • Rigetti Computing

  • Tina Oberoi

    • University of Chicago

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• Threshold for Fault-tolerant Quantum Advantage with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2504.01897

  Presenters

  • Sivaprasad Omanakuttan

    • JP Morgan Chase

  Authors

  • Sivaprasad Omanakuttan

    • JP Morgan Chase

  • Zichang He

    • JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  • Zhiwei Zhang

  • Tianyi Hao

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Arman Babakhani

    • University of Southern California

  • Sami Boulebnane

  • Shouvanik Chakrabarti

    • JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  • Dylan Herman

    • JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  • Joseph Sullivan

  • Michael Perlin

  • Ruslan Shayludin

    • JPMorgan Chase

  • Marco Pistoia

    • IonQ

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• Runtime Quantum Advantage with Digital Quantum Optimization [arXiv:2505.08663]

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Publication: Scaling advantage with quantum-enhanced memetic tabu search for LABS
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04553
  
  Digitized Counterdiabatic Quantum Sampling
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26735
  
  Hybrid Sequential Quantum Computing
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05851
  
  Runtime Quantum Advantage with Digital Quantum Optimization
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08663

  Presenters

  • Narendra Hegade

    • Kipu Quantum

  Authors

  • Narendra Hegade

    • Kipu Quantum

  • Pranav Chandarana

    • Kipu Quantum

  • Alejandro Gomez Cadavid

  • Sebastián Romero

  • Anton Simen

  • Enrique Solano

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