The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) represents a leading framework for addressing combinatorial optimisation problems on near-term quantum devices. By alternating between a cost ...

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Abstract: This talk is based on a joint work with Soheil Behnezhad, Alma Ghafari, and Ronitt Rubinfeld, to appear in STOC'25, https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08805. We ...

Admission decisions for loss systems accessed by multiple customer classes are a classical queueing control problem with a wide variety of applications. When a server is available, the decision is ...

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If this is what AI is doing in its pre-school years, its teen years should be a scream. Google executives are trying to appear forthcoming and responsive about troubling responses from its Gemini ...

Dynamic stochastic matching problems arise in a variety of recent applications, ranging from ridesharing and online video games to kidney exchange. Such problems are naturally formulated as Markov ...

A multi-disciplinary research team specializing in canine behavior and Artificial Intelligence has developed an AI algorithm that automates the high-stakes process of evaluating potential working dogs ...

Earlier this year, a report shone a light on football and match-fixing. It went slightly under the radar. But it’s a genuinely big problem in world football — and the statistics in the report prove it ...