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Quantum Annealing Algorithms for Boolean Tensor Networks

28 Jul 2021arXiv:2107.13659links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Elijah Pelofske, Georg Hahn, Daniel O'Malley, Hristo N. Djidjev, Boian S. Alexandrov

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Quantum annealers manufactured by D-Wave Systems, Inc., are computational devices capable of finding high-quality solutions of NP-hard problems. In this contribution, we explore the potential and effectiveness of such quantum annealers for computing Boolean tensor networks. Tensors offer a natural way to model high-dimensional data commonplace in many scientific fields, and representing a binary tensor as a Boolean tensor network is the task of expressing a tensor containing categorical (i.e., {0, 1}) values as a product of low dimensional binary tensors. A Boolean tensor network is computed by Boolean tensor decomposition, and it is usually not exact. The aim of such decomposition is to minimize the given distance measure between the high-dimensional input tensor and the product of lower-dimensional (usually three-dimensional) tensors and matrices representing the tensor network. In this paper, we introduce and analyze three general algorithms for Boolean tensor networks: Tucker, Tensor Train, and Hierarchical Tucker networks. The computation of a Boolean tensor network is reduced to a sequence of Boolean matrix factorizations, which we show can be expressed as a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem suitable for solving on a quantum annealer. By using a novel method we introduce called \textit{parallel quantum annealing}, we demonstrate that tensor with up to millions of elements can be decomposed efficiently using a DWave 2000Q quantum annealer.

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