Direct comparison of stochastic driven nonlinear dynamical systems for combinatorial optimization

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Autori principali: Hou, Junpeng, Barzegar, Amin, Katzgraber, Helmut G.
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author Hou, Junpeng
Barzegar, Amin
Katzgraber, Helmut G.
author_facet Hou, Junpeng
Barzegar, Amin
Katzgraber, Helmut G.
contents Combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in industrial applications. However, finding optimal or close-to-optimal solutions can often be extremely hard. Because some of these problems can be mapped to the ground-state search of the Ising model, tremendous effort has been devoted to developing solvers for Ising-type problems over the past decades. Recent advances in controlling and manipulating both quantum and classical systems have enabled novel computing paradigms such as quantum simulators and coherent Ising machines to tackle hard optimization problems. Here, we examine and benchmark several physics-inspired optimization algorithms, including coherent Ising machines, gain-dissipative algorithms, simulated bifurcation machines, and Hopfield neural networks, which we collectively refer to as stochastic-driven nonlinear dynamical systems. Most importantly, we benchmark these algorithms against random Ising problems with planted solutions and compare them to simulated annealing as a baseline leveraging the same software stack for all solvers. We further study how different numerical integration techniques and graph connectivity affect performance. This work provides an overview of a diverse set of new optimization paradigms.
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spellingShingle Direct comparison of stochastic driven nonlinear dynamical systems for combinatorial optimization
Hou, Junpeng
Barzegar, Amin
Katzgraber, Helmut G.
Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Optimization and Control
Combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in industrial applications. However, finding optimal or close-to-optimal solutions can often be extremely hard. Because some of these problems can be mapped to the ground-state search of the Ising model, tremendous effort has been devoted to developing solvers for Ising-type problems over the past decades. Recent advances in controlling and manipulating both quantum and classical systems have enabled novel computing paradigms such as quantum simulators and coherent Ising machines to tackle hard optimization problems. Here, we examine and benchmark several physics-inspired optimization algorithms, including coherent Ising machines, gain-dissipative algorithms, simulated bifurcation machines, and Hopfield neural networks, which we collectively refer to as stochastic-driven nonlinear dynamical systems. Most importantly, we benchmark these algorithms against random Ising problems with planted solutions and compare them to simulated annealing as a baseline leveraging the same software stack for all solvers. We further study how different numerical integration techniques and graph connectivity affect performance. This work provides an overview of a diverse set of new optimization paradigms.
title Direct comparison of stochastic driven nonlinear dynamical systems for combinatorial optimization
topic Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15427