Abstract: Combinatorial optimization problems are fundamental to many industrial and scientific applications, but are often NP-hard, requiring heuristic and probabilistic approaches to find good ...

Abstract: The Ising machine, as a quantum-inspired computing system, can be used to efficiently solve combinatorial optimization problems. Ongoing studies have positioned it to potentially surpass the ...

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...