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Comparing Quantum Annealing and BF-DCQO (2509.14358v1)
Published 17 Sep 2025 in quant-ph
Abstract: Recent work [1] has claimed that a gate-model quantum-classical hybrid algorithm called bias-field digitized counterdiabatic quantum optimization (BF-DCQO) [2] outperforms D-Wave's annealing quantum computers in optimization tasks. We find the opposite to be true, and demonstrate that D-Wave's quantum annealers find solutions of far greater quality than claimed in Ref. [1], while using far less computation time. We also present evidence that suggests the quantum component of the hybrid approach makes minimal contributions to solution quality.
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