QAOA and Hybrid Optimization

Presentations

• Quantum Operations on Sequence and Image with EHands and QCrank: Implementations for NISQ Device

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Jan Balewski

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Jan Balewski

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Wes Bethel

  • Roel Van Beeumen

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Talita Periciano

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• Connecting Stabilizer Rényi Entropy to Problem Hardness in the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Georgios Arapantonis

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Georgios Arapantonis

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Gregory Quiroz

    • Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Paraj Titum

    • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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• A Depth-Independent Linear Chain Ansatz for Large-Scale Quantum Approximate Optimization

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Publication: manuscript submitted to Physical Review Applied and under review.

  Presenters

  • Zixu Wang

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Authors

  • Zixu Wang

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Jian Shi

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Jack Mandell

  • Yangyang Xu

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• Impact of Spatiotemporally Correlated Noise in Variational Quantum Algorithms

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • William Watkins

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • William Watkins

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Gregory Quiroz

    • Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

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• Hybrid Quantum-Classical Algorithms for Biomarker Discovery in Multimodal Cancer Data

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Publication: Shah, Dhirpal, Mariesa Teo, Ryan A. Robinett, Sophia Madejski, Zachary Morrell, Siddhi Ramesh, Colin Campbell et al. "Toward Quantum-Enabled Biomarker Discovery: An Outlook from Q4Bio." arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.25904 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Teague Tomesh

    • Infleqtion

  Authors

  • Teague Tomesh

    • Infleqtion

  • Dhirpal Shah

  • Mariesa Teo

    • University of Chicago

  • Ryan Robinett

  • Sophia Madejski

  • Zachary Morrell

  • Siddhi Ramesh

  • Colin Campbell

    • Infleqtion

  • Bharath Thotakura

  • Victory Omole

  • Ben Hall

  • Aram Harrow

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI

  • Alexander Pearson

  • Frederic Chong

  • Samantha Riesenfeld

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• Dynamic Circuit QAOA Ansatz for Solving MaxCut

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Sumeet Shirgure

    • University of Central Florida

  Authors

  • Sumeet Shirgure

    • University of Central Florida

  • Efekan Kökcü

    • Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory

  • Siyuan Niu

    • University of Central Florida

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• Optimally Band-Limited Parameter Training for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Gregory Quiroz

    • Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

  Authors

  • Gregory Quiroz

    • Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Georgios Arapantonis

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Paraj Titum

    • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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• quantum approximate walk algorithm

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Publication: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.18464 (accepted to AAAI quantum symposium)

  Presenters

  • Ziqing Guo

    • Texas Tech University

  Authors

  • Ziqing Guo

    • Texas Tech University

  • Ziwen Pan

  • Wenshuo Hu

  • Alex Khan

  • Balewski Jan

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• Connectivity-aware Synthesis of Quantum Algorithms

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Christoph Fleckenstein

    • ParityQC

  Authors

  • Christoph Fleckenstein

    • ParityQC

  • Florian Dreier

  • Gregor Aigner

  • Michael Fellner

  • Philipp Philipp Aumann

  • Reinhard Stahn

  • Martin Lanthaler

  • Wolfgang Lechner

    • University of Innsbruck

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• Improving Quantum Optimization with Warm Starts

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Zichang He

    • JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  Authors

  • Zichang He

    • JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  • Anuj Apte

  • Abid Khan

    • JPMorgan Chase

  • Ruslan Shaydulin

    • JPMorganChase

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• AI-assisted Distributed Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm for Solving Ising Models

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Publication: [1] Kim et al. "Distributed Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on a Quantum-Centric Supercomputing Architecture", arXiv:2407.20212v2 (2024)
  [2] Ilya et al. "QAOA-GPT: Efficient Generation of Adaptive and Regular Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Circuits", arXiv:2504.16350v1 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Seongmin Kim

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Seongmin Kim

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Yuri Alexeev

  • In-Saeng Suh

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• Hybrid Sequential Quantum Computing

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Pranav Chandarana

    • Kipu Quantum

  Authors

  • Pranav Chandarana

    • Kipu Quantum

  • Sebastián Romero

  • Alejandro Gomez Cadavid

  • Anton Simen

  • Enrique Solano

  • Narendra Hegade

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• Multi-Qubit Algorithms on a 6-Qubit Si/SiGe Processor

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Niall Murphy

    • Equal1

  Authors

  • Niall Murphy

    • Equal1

  • Elena Blokhina

  • Panagiotis Giounanlis

  • Mathieu Moras

  • Nikolaos Petropoulos

  • Claude Rohrbacher

  • Nodar Samkharadze

  • Andrii Semenov

    • Equal1

  • Andrii Semenov

    • Equal1

  • Xutong Wu

  • Brendan Barry

  • Agostino Apra

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• Enhancing subproblem decomposition for large-scale optimization using quantum correlations

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Maxime Dupont

    • Rigetti Computing

  Authors

  • Maxime Dupont

    • Rigetti Computing

  • Bhuvanesh Sundar

    • Rigetti Computing

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