“When solving a very large computational problem, optimization solvers can require significant computational time to find a first feasible solution,” said Dr. Timo Berthold, director of Mixed ...

A new type of computer uses oscillators in special materials to find the most efficient solutions to complex scheduling and ...

But for the moving sofa problem — a very simple question — it’s the optimal solution. The result illustrates that even the most straightforward optimization problems can have counterintuitively ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to ...

Luna v1.0: Quantum optimization for everyone With Luna, users can model, benchmark and solve optimization problems intuitively using Python, while Luna provides hardware-agnostic access to various ...

A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial ...

In addition to the new use case of simulating magnetic systems, D-Wave computers are also used to solve hard business optimization problems in workforce scheduling, production scheduling ...