QuanTAS
Supported by Ken Kennedy Institute (Rice University)
Publications
Blogposts
PIs:
Anastasios Kyrillidis (Rice CS)
Nai-Hui Chia (Rice CS)
Tirthak Patel (Rice CS)
Shengxi Huang (Rice ECE)
Students & Contributors:
Junhyung Lyle Kim
,
David Quiroga
,
Athanasios Hadjidimoulas
,
Yuqian Huo
,
Ria Stevens
,
Fangshuo (Jasper) Liao
Blogposts
Identity-Paired Progressive Depth Training: When Trainability Persists Beyond Expressibility
A structural trick that trains variational quantum eigensolvers with ~5× fewer two-qubit gates — plus a theorem for why the circuit stops growing yet keeps improving.
A Catalyst Framework for the Quantum Linear System Problem via the Proximal Point Algorithm
A classical-acceleration recipe — the proximal point algorithm — applied to quantum linear-system solvers.
Quantum EigenGame for Excited-State Calculation
A game-theoretic decomposition of eigenvalue problems for quantum simulation of excited states.
Exploiting Low-Rank Structure in Max-K-Cut Problems
Algorithm overview, theoretical guarantees, and benchmarks for low-rank Max-3-Cut at scale.
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What Can 15 Obsolete GPUs Do for Combinatorial Optimization?
GPU implementation, scaling experiments, interactive visualisations.
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Rank-1 as a Building Block for Million-Node Max-3-Cut
Incremental scoring, hybrid warm-starts, and extreme-scale experiments.
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Randomized Rank-2: When Two Eigenvectors Beat One
A 3-phase pipeline that beats SA on 6 of 12 graph families with constant sample complexity.
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Spectral vs. Combinatorial: Two Views of Graph Structure
A DSatur + spectral ensemble that beats SA on 11 of 13 graph families.
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How Many Darts to Hit a Maximum? The Theory of Randomized Rounding
The sample-complexity theory behind the series: a rounding margin, Beta-distributed caps, and Paley–Zygmund — with a dart budget independent of n.