no code implementations • 24 Jun 2019 • James King, Masoud Mohseni, William Bernoudy, Alexandre Fréchette, Hossein Sadeghi, Sergei V. Isakov, Hartmut Neven, Mohammad H. Amin
Reverse annealing enables the development of genetic algorithms that use quantum fluctuation for mutations and classical mechanisms for the crossovers -- we refer to these as Quantum-Assisted Genetic Algorithms (QAGAs).
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2017 • Neil Newman, Alexandre Fréchette, Kevin Leyton-Brown
A crucial element of the auction design was the construction of a solver, dubbed SATFC, that determined whether sets of stations could be "repacked" in this way; it needed to run every time a station was given a price quote.
