A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial optimization problems. These are common in real-world applications such as ...

This paper considers the problem of optimizing the ratio f Tr[VT AV]/Tr [VT BV] over all unitary matrices V with p columns, where A,B are two positive definite matrices. This problem is common in ...

A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a potentially more effective way of helping computers solve some of the toughest optimization problems they face. Their ...