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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Phys.
Sec. Quantum Engineering and Technology
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fphy.2025.1468348
This article is part of the Research TopicAdvancing Quantum Computation: Optimizing Algorithms and Error Mitigation in NISQ DevicesView all 3 articles
Transfer of Knowledge through Reverse Annealing: A Preliminary Analysis of the Benefits and What to Share
Provisionally accepted
Eneko Osaba*
Esther Villar-Rodriguez- Tecnalia Research & Innovation, San Sebastian, Spain
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Being immersed in the NISQ-era, current quantum annealers present limitations for solving optimization problems efficiently. To mitigate these limitations, D-Wave Systems developed a mechanism called Reverse Annealing, a specific type of quantum annealing designed to perform local refinement of good states found elsewhere. Despite the research activity around Reverse Annealing, none has theorized about the possible benefits related to the transfer of knowledge under this paradigm. This work moves in that direction and is driven by experimentation focused on answering two key research questions: i) is reverse annealing a paradigm that can benefit from knowledge transfer between similar problems? and ii) can we infer the characteristics that an input solution should meet to help increase the probability of success? To properly guide the tests in this paper, the well-known Knapsack Problem has been chosen for benchmarking purposes, using a total of 34 instances composed of 14 and 16 items.
Keywords: Quantum Annealing, Reverse annealing, D-wave, Quantum optimization, Transfer optimization
Received: 21 Jul 2024; Accepted: 13 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Osaba and Villar-Rodriguez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Eneko Osaba, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, San Sebastian, Spain
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