JUNIQ/EPIQ Summer School on Quantum Computing - Applications across Digital and Analog Architectures

QUBO Formulation and QAOA: A Tutorial on Encoding and Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems

2 Sept 2025, 09:00

1h

Forschungszentrum Jülich

Speaker

Pim van den Heuvel (JSC)

Description

In this tutorial, we will dive into combinatorial optimization problems and explore how effectively encode these problems using the Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) formulation and how to tackle them using the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA).