Chaowen Guan

2 accepted papers

2026

Quantum Non-Linear Bandit Optimization

Zakaria Shams Siam, Chaowen Guan, Chong Liu

AAAI 2026technical

We study non-linear bandit optimization where the learner maximizes a black-box function with zeroth order function oracle, which has been successfully applied in many critical applications such as drug discovery and materials design. Existing works have showed that with the aid of quantum computing

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2024

Quantum Algorithms for Non-smooth Non-convex Optimization

Chengchang Liu, Chaowen Guan, Jianhao He, John C.S. Lui

NeurIPS 2024poster

This paper considers the problem for finding the $(\delta,\epsilon)$-Goldstein stationary point of Lipschitz continuous objective, which is a rich function class to cover a great number of important applications. We construct a novel zeroth-order quantum estimator for the gradient of the smoothed…

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