Algorithmic QUBO formulations for k -SAT and hamiltonian cycles
Jonas Nüßlein, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff–Popien, Sebastian Feld · Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion · 2022
Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) can be seen as a generic language for optimization problems. QUBOs attract particular attention since they can be solved with quantum hardware, like quantum annealers or quantum gate computers running QAOA. In this paper, we present two novel QUBO formulations for k-SAT and Hamiltonian Cycles that scale significantly better than existing approaches. For k-SAT we reduce the growth of the QUBO matrix from O(k) to O(log(k)). For Hamiltonian Cycles the matrix no longer grows quadratically in the number of nodes, as currently, but linearly in the number of edges and logarithmically in the number of nodes.