Hidetoshi Nishimori visited Google LA on March 28, 2014 to give a talk: "Theory of Quantum Annealing" Abstract: Quantum annealing is a generic framework, metaheuristic, for combinatorial optimization. I will first review the basic formulation of quantum annealing and numerical evidence for its performance, particularly in comparison with classical simulated annealing. I will then explain a few
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