Recently accepted papers in optimization and quantum and quantum inspired computing.

• Xiaoyuan Liu, Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa, Indradeep Ghosh, Ilya Safro "Partitioning Dense Graphs with Hardware Accelerators", International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), 2022, preprint at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.09420.pdf
• Ankit Kulshrestha, Ilya Safro "BEINIT: Avoiding Barren Plateaus in Variational Quantum Algorithms", IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2022, preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13751
• Xiaoyuan Liu, Ruslan Shaydulin, Ilya Safro "Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm with Sparsified Phase Operator", IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2022, preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.00118
• Xiaoyuan Liu, Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa, Avradip Mandal, Sarvagya Upadhyay, Ilya Safro, Arnab Roy "Leveraging Special-Purpose Hardware for Local Search Heuristics", Computational Optimization and Applications, 2022, preprint at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.09810.pdf