AI-assisted Distributed Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm for Solving Ising Models
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Abstract
Solving Ising models remains computationally difficult due to the exponential growth of the solution space. Quantum algorithms such as the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) offer a promising pathway to address this challenge, though their scalability is still limited by current quantum computing system constraints (e.g., qubit counts, coherence time, and gate fidelity). In this work, we present a Distributed QAOA (DQAOA) framework enhanced with Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), which integrates quantum computing, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence. The proposed DQAOA-GPT approach efficiently distributed heavy computational workloads across quantum-classical resources while leveraging GPT to generate optimized quantum circuits. We demonstrate that this framework enables efficient solution for Ising models and paves the way for tackling more complex problems.
*This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.
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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
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Seongmin Kim
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory