Template-based Minor Embedding for Adiabatic Quantum Optimization
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Quantum Annealing (QA) can be used to quickly obtain near-optimal solutions for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems. In QA hardware, each decision variable of a QUBO should be mapped to one or more adjacent qubits in such a way that pairs of variables defining a quadratic term in the objective function are mapped to some pair of adjacent qubits. However, qubits have limited connectivity in existing QA hardware. This has spurred work on preprocessing algorithms for embedding the graph representing problem variables with quadratic terms in the hardware graph representing qubits adjacencies, such as the Chimera graph in hardware produced by D-Wave Systems.In this paper, we use integer linear programming to search for an embedding of the problem graph into certain classes of minors of the Chimera graph, which we call template embeddings. One of these classes corresponds to complete bipartite graphs, for which we show the limitation of the existing approach based on minimum Odd Cycle Transversals (OCTs). Some of the formulations presented are exact, and thus can be used to certify the absence of a minor embedding. On an extensive test set consisting of random graphs from five different classes of varying size and sparsity, we can embed 38 graphs than a state-of-the-art OCT-based approach.
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