2026
Neural QAOA$^2$: Differentiable Joint Graph Partitioning and Parameter Initialization for Quantum Combinatorial Optimization
ICML 2026poster
The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) holds promise for combinatorial optimization but is constrained by limited qubits. While divide-and-conquer frameworks like QAOA$^2$ address scalability by partitioning graphs into subgraphs, existing methods suffer from two fundamental limitatio…