Quadratic Continuous Quantum Optimization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24759v1
• Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:08:41 GMT
• Title: Quadratic Continuous Quantum Optimization
• Authors: Sascha Mücke, Thore Gerlach, Nico Piatkowski,
• Abstract summary: Quantum annealers can solve QUBO problems efficiently but struggle with continuous optimization tasks like regression.<n>We introduce Quadratic Continuous Quantum Optimization (QCQO), an anytime algorithm that approximates solutions to unconstrained programs via a sequence of QUBO instances.
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• Abstract: Quantum annealers can solve QUBO problems efficiently but struggle with continuous optimization tasks like regression due to their discrete nature. We introduce Quadratic Continuous Quantum Optimization (QCQO), an anytime algorithm that approximates solutions to unconstrained quadratic programs via a sequence of QUBO instances. Rather than encoding real variables as binary vectors, QCQO implicitly represents them using continuous QUBO weights and iteratively refines the solution by summing sampled vectors. This allows flexible control over the number of binary variables and adapts well to hardware constraints. We prove convergence properties, introduce a step size adaptation scheme, and validate the method on linear regression. Experiments with simulated and real quantum annealers show that QCQO achieves accurate results with fewer qubits, though convergence slows on noisy hardware. Our approach enables quantum annealing to address a wider class of continuous problems.

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