Motivation / Related Work Optimizing quantum circuits is essential for various applications, such as chemical simulations, due to the inherent complexity of quantum systems and the current limitations of quantum…
Motivation / Related Work Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) is applied frequently for combinatorial optimization problems [1] with real world applications, e.g., the job-shop scheduling problem (JSSP) or the travelling salesman…
Foundation models (like OpenAI’s GPT-4/ChatGPT [1] or Meta’s Llama 2 [2]) have been a disruptive technology that within just few months has started to transform the modus operandi of several industries. There have…
Motivation The rise of quantum computing has offered new opportunities to achieve computational tasks that classical computers cannot. However, to achieve quantum advantage over classical algorithms, it is necessary to…
1 Introduction The branch-and-bound algorithm is a fundamental solver for linear mixed integer programming problems. It is used to solve optimization problems with a combination of continuous and integer variables.…
MotivationQuantum computing promises to revolutionize many areas that are hard or impossible to approach with tra- ditional computers. However, due to rigid hardware restrictions and noise sensitivity of currently available…
Motivation Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly used in robotics to learn complex tasks from repeated interactions with the environment. For example, a mobile robot can learn to avoid an obstacle…
Thesis available for download here: Dinesh Parthsarathy: Safe Monte Carlo Tree Search using Learned Safety Critics Background Reinforcement Learning and planning are two research fields that have shown great success…