Seven of our papers have been accepted to IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering 2026

Seven of our papers have been accepted to the IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering 2026. We are looking forward to catch up with many colleagues and friends and meet new people in Toronto!

1. Graph-Conditioned Meta-Optimizer for QAOA Parameter Generation on Multiple Problem Classes

Kien Nguyen and Ilya Safro

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25275

2. Scaling Qubit Mapping and Routing With Position Graph Abstraction and Memoization

Brent Russon, Bao Bach, Ed Younis, and Ilya Safro

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09237

3. Constrained Counterdiabatic Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm for Portfolio Optimization

Jose Falla and Ilya Safro

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06858

4. Warm-Starting Rank-2 MaxCut Relaxation Using Local Correlators From Depth-1 Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Bao Bach, Filip Maciejewski, and Ilya Safro

Soon on arXiv

5. Quantum Hypergraph Partitioning

Cameron Ibrahim, Bao Bach, Jad Salem, Reuben Tate, Kien Nguyen, Stephan Eidenbenz, and Ilya Safro

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10623

6. Implications of Reduced DLAs for the Standard QAOA Ansatz

Jose Falla, Bao Bach, Boris Tsvelikhovskiy, and Ilya Safro

Soon on arXiv

7. QUACOD: Quantum Optimization via Coordinate Descent for Scalable Drone Scheduling

Van-Quang-Huy Nguyen, Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Samee Khan, Ilya Safro, and Khoa Luu

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14001

Many thanks and congratulations to all our students and collaborators from University of California, Riverside, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Berkeley Lab, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States Naval Academy, University of Arkansas and Kansas State University. It's always a great pleasure working with you.