David Fersing, Jonas Nüßlein, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Formulation of the free-flow problem as a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization", Bachelor's Thesis
Markus Baumann, Tobias Rohe, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Optimizing Parameterized Quantum Hamiltonians via Implicit Differentiation", Master's Thesis
Shanice Ehioghiren, Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Evaluation of Optimization Factors in Quantum Algorithms for Train Rerouting", Bachelor's Thesis
Markus Baumann, Jonas Stein, Tobias Rohe, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Sampling the Unseen: Holdout Recovery under Band-Limited Parity Constraints", Research Internship
Alexander Kovacs, Michael Poppel, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Empirical Evaluation of Quantum Circuit Ansatz Design Effects for Supervised Learning", Bachelor's Thesis
Joel Furtak, Jonas Stein, Michael Kölle, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Exploring the Practical Application of Quantum-Native Self-Attention for Quantum Vision Transformers", Master's Thesis
Tim Henningner, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Anwendbarkeit von QAOA auf die Minimierung der Teleportationskosten im verteilten Quantencomputing", Bachelor's Thesis
Mark Seebode, Jonas Stein, Daniëlle Schuman, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "An Empricial Evaluation of Quantum Annealing-Based Image Classification Using Discriminative Quantum Boltzmann Machines", Bachelor’s Thesis
Simon Hehnen, Michael Kölle, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Determining Semantic Links in Product Data Using Quantum Restricted Boltzmann Machines", Master’s Thesis
Alexander Feist, Michael Kölle, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Evaluating Parameter-Based Training Performance of Neural Networks and Variational Quantum Circuits", Bachelor’s Thesis
Carlotta von L’Estocq, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Leveraging Preconditioning to speed up quantum simulation-based optimization", Bachelor’s Thesis
Viktoria Patapovich, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Space-Efficient Quantum Optimization for the Traveling Salesman Problem via Binary Encoding of Feasible Solutions", Master’s Thesis
Federico Harjes Ruiloba, Tobias Rohe, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Neural Encoded VQEs for Combinatorial Optimization Problems", Bachelor’s Thesis
Jonathan Wulf, Jonas Stein, Maximilian Zorn, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "State Preparation on Quantum Hardware Using an Island Genetic Algorithm", Master’s Thesis
Sabrina Egger, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Applying parameterized Quantum Walks in Reinforcement Learning", Master’s Thesis
Het Dave, Arnold Unterauer, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Explainable Time Series Forecasting using exogenous variables – How weather affects the stock market", Bachelor’s Thesis
David Fischer, Jonas Stein, Philipp Altmann, Dirk André Deckert, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "A Path Towards Quantum Advantage for the Unit Commitment Problem", Bachelor’s Thesis
Jonas Blenninger, Jonas Stein, Maximilian Zorn, Peter Eder, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "CUAOA: A Novel CUDA-Accelerated Simulation Framework for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm", Master’s Thesis
Jonathan Wulf, Jonas Stein, David Bucher, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Quantum Singular Value Transformation in Practice", Research Internship
Christopher Rieß, Jonas Stein, Michael Kölle, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Benchmarking Quantum Gaussian Processes", Research Internship
Jakob Mayer, Jonas Nüßlein, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Towards Efficient Arbitrage Detection: A Study on Quantum Algorithms", Bachelor’s Thesis
Nico Kraus, Jonas Stein, Jonas Nüßlein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "The Influence of Data Characteristics on the Efficacy of Forecasting Models", Research Internship
Constantin Economides, Jonas Stein, and Lode Pollet, "A Novel Quantum Circuit for Efficient Computation of Exponentially Large Weighted Sums in Variational Quantum Circuits", Master’s Thesis
Max Adler, Jonas Stein, Jonas Nüßlein, Nico Kraus, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Using Quantum Machine Learning to predict asset prices in financial markets", Master’s Thesis
Gerhard Stenzel, Michael Kölle, Jonas Stein, Andreas Sedlmeier, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Quantum-Enhanced Denoising Diffusion Model", Master’s Thesis
Vasily Bokov, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, and Michael Wolf, "Exploring the suitability of efficient Quantum Kernels for exponential speedups", Master’s Thesis
Navid Roshani, Jonas Stein, and Lode Pollet, "Introducing sequential Hamiltonian assembly for training VQEs and its application in graph coloring", Masters’s Thesis
Dominik Ott, Jonas Stein, Jonas Nüßlein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "NISQ-ready community detection on weighted graphs using separation-node identification", Bachelor’s Thesis
Lorena Wemmer, Jonas Stein, Michael Kölle, Elena Van der Vorst, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Analyzing Reinforcement Learning strategies from a prameterized quantum walker", Bachelor’s Thesis
Anant Agnihotri, Jonas Stein, and Jeanette Lorenz, "Introducing Linear Entropy Based Community Detection", Master’s Thesis
Viktoryia Patapovich, Jonas Stein, Michael Kölle, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Efficient quantum circuit architecture for coined quantum walks on many bipartite graphs", Bachelor’s Thesis
Ahmad Issa, Jonas Stein, Daniëlle Schuman, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Anomaly Detection using Quantum Circuit Born Machines", Bachelor’s Thesis
Ivo Christ, Jonas Stein, Robert Müller, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Investor sentiment analysis using classical and quantum algorithms", Master’s Thesis
Soren Little, Christoph Roch, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Structural Analysis of Graph Based Optimization Problems and their QUBO Formulations", Bachelor’s Thesis
David Münzer, Michael Kölle, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Data Embedding for efficient Quantum Machine Learning", Bachelor’s Thesis
Petros Stougiannidis, Jonas Stein, Sebastian Feld, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Introducing a space-efficient polynomial rotation circuit for bypassing traditional Quantum Arithmetic in NISQ-applications of HHL and beyond", Bachelor’s Thesis
Leopold Bodendörfer, Jonas Stein, Michael Kölle, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Efficient Data Embedding for offline Handwriting Recognition using Quantum Support Vector Machines", Bachelor’s Thesis
Johannes Kolb, Jonas Stein, Christoph Roch, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Comparing the performance of PUBO and QUBO based QAOA for continuous optimization problems", Bachelor’s Thesis
Tobias Rohe, Jonas Stein, Julian Hager, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Introducing a Hardware-efficient Layer-VQE based Ansatz", Bachelor’s Thesis
Franziska Wörle, Jonas Stein, Maximilian Mansky, Robert Müller, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Possibilities and limitations of Quantum Machine Translation: Adaption of the DisCoCat-Model for Question Answering in the Chinese Language", Bachelor’s Thesis
Jonathan Wulf, Jonas Stein, Michael Kölle, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Efficient embedding in Quantum Support Vector Machines using a specialized NISQ approach", Bachelor’s Thesis
Philip Hierhager, Sebastian Zielinski, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Evaluation of quantum-classical hybrid algorithms for solving 3-SAT problems", Bachelor’s Thesis
Ivelina Bozhinova, Jonas Stein, Sebastian Feld, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Pruning the search space in QUBO-based Community Detection", Master’s Thesis
Kai-Chun Lin, Jonas Stein, Christoph Roch, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Community Detection in Multilayer Networks via Quantum Annealing", Master’s Thesis
Maximilian Beer, Jonas Stein, Sebastian Feld, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Local Community Detection via Quantum Walks in the Quantum Gate Model", Bachelor’s Thesis
Moritz Finsterwalder, Christoph Roch, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Optimizing Shift Plans Using Classical Methods", Bachelor’s Thesis
Peter Lang, Jonas Stein, Sebastian Feld, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Optimized Community Detection through edge deletion on quantum annealers", Bachelor’s Thesis
Bob Godar, Christoph Roch, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, "Optimizing a Quantum Key Distribution Network using Quantum Annealing", Masters’s Thesis
International Workshop on Quantum Optimization, 2026
Quantum Leadership Session: Quantum Computing – Use Cases, 2024
Bitkom Quantum Summit, 2023
Caution
The following list of publications is not necessarily up to date. For a full list including preprints, see my Google Scholar profile.
Publications
2026
Jonas Stein, Maximilian Zorn, Leo Sünkel, and Thomas Gabor. Quantum Optimization Algorithms. In: Combinatorial Optimization Using Quantum Computing – A Gentle Introduction. Ed. by Francisco Chicano, Alberto Moraglio, and Ofer M. Shir. Natural Computing Series. Springer Nature, 2026. Chap. 6. arXiv: 2511.12379. (in press)
Gerhard Stenzel, Tobias Rohe, Michael Kölle, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Illustration of Barren Plateaus in Quantum Computing. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence – Volume 1: QAIO. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2026. pp. 731–742. arXiv: 2602.16558.
2025
David Bucher, Jonas Stein, Sebastian Feld, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Penalty-free approach to accelerating constrained quantum optimization. In: Physical Review A 112 (2025), p. 062605. arXiv: 2504.08663.
David Bucher, Daniel Porawski, Maximilian Janetschek, Jonas Stein, Corey O’Meara, Giorgio Cortiana, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Efficient QAOA Architecture for Solving Multi-Constrained Optimization Problems. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 1. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, Sept. 2025, pp. 356–367.arXiv: 2506.03115.
Daniel Hein, Simon Wiedemann, Markus Baumann, Patrik Felbinger, Justin Klein, Maximilian Schieder, Jonas Stein, Daniëlle Schuman, Thomas Cope, and Steffen Udluft. From Classical Data to Quantum Advantage – Quantum Policy Evaluation on Quantum Hardware. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 2. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, Sept. 2025, pp. 121–126. arXiv: 2509.07614.
Nico Kraus, Marvin Erdmann, Alexander Kuzmany, Daniel Porawski, and Jonas Stein. Quantum Annealing Hyperparameter Analysis for Optimal Sensor Placement in Production Environments. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 1. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, Sept. 2025, pp. 1982–1988. arXiv: 2507.16584.
Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Tobias Rohe, Jonas Stein, Dmytro Bondarenko, Linus Menzel, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Clique detection using symmetry-restricted quantum circuits. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 2. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, Sept. 2025, pp. 95–98. arXiv: 2506.03339.
Daniëlle Schuman, Mark V. Seebode, Tobias Rohe, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Michael Schroedl-Baumann, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, and Florian Krellner. Quantum Boltzmann Machines using Parallel Annealing for Medical Image Classification. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 1. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, Sept. 2025, pp. 2127–2138. arXiv: 2507.14116.
Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, Maximilian Zorn, Thomas Gabor, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Time-Aware Qubit Assignment and Circuit Optimization for Distributed Quantum Computing. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 1. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, Sept. 2025, pp. 937–947. arXiv: 2506.03115.
Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Stein, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Philipp Altmann, Michael Kölle, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Quality Diversity for Variational Quantum Circuit Optimization. In: Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Vol. 35. AAAI Press, Sept. 2025, pp. 367–375. arXiv: 2504.08459.
Michael Kölle, Alexander Feist, Jonas Stein, Sebastian Wölckert, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Evaluating Parameter-Based Training Performance of Neural Networks and Variational Quantum Circuits. In: Computational Science – ICCS 2025. Ed. by Michael H. Lees, Wentong Cai, Siew Ann Cheong, Yi Su, David Abramson, Jack J. Dongarra, and Peter M. A. Sloot. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, pp. 275–282. arXiv: 2504.07273.
Michael Kölle, Jonas Maurer, Philipp Altmann, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, Julian Hager, Sebastian Zielinski, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Quantum Transfer Learning: The Impact of Classical Preprocessing. In: Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Ed. by Ana Paula Rocha, Luc Steels, and Jaap van den Herik. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, pp. 368–403.
Jonas Nüßlein, Maximilian Zorn, Fabian Ritz, Jonas Stein, Gerhard Stenzel, Julian Schönberger, Thomas Gabor, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Optimizing Sensor Redundancy in Sequential Decision-Making Problems. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 1. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2025, pp. 245–252. arXiv: 2412.07686.
Tobias Rohe, Barbara Böhm, Michael Kölle, Jonas Stein, Robert Müller, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Coconut Palm Tree Counting on Drone Images with Deep Object Detection and Synthetic Training Data. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 3. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2025, pp. 662–669. arXiv: 2412.11949.
Tobias Rohe, Simon Grätz, Michael Kölle, Sebastian Zielinski, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. From Problem to Solution: A General Pipeline to Solve Optimisation Problems on Quantum Hardware. In: Advances in Information and Communication. Ed. by Kohei Arai. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, pp. 21–41. arXiv: 2406.19876.
Tobias Rohe, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Michael Kölle, Jonas Stein, Leo Sünkel, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Accelerated VQE: Parameter Recycling for Similar Recurring Problem Instances. In: Innovations for Community Services. Ed. by Sebastian Zielinski, Gerald Eichler, Christian Erfurth, and Günter Fahrnberger. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, pp. 63–78. arXiv: 2503.22590.
Navid Roshani, Jonas Stein, Maximilian Zorn, Michael Kölle, Philipp Altmann, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Sequential Hamiltonian Assembly: Enhancing the Training of Combinatorial Optimization Problems on Quantum Computers. In: Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Ed. by Ana Paula Rocha, Luc Steels, and Jaap van den Herik. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, pp. 252–271. arXiv: 2408.04751.
Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, Jonas Nüßlein, Tobias Rohe, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Evaluating Variational Quantum Circuit Architectures for Distributed Quantum Computing. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Artificial Intelligence. 2025, pp. 343–350. arXiv: 2509.12005.
Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, Gerhard Stenzel, Michael Kölle, Thomas Gabor, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Evolutionary-Based Circuit Optimization for Distributed Quantum Computing. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Artificial Intelligence. 2025, pp. 261–268. arXiv: 2509.08074.
2024
Philipp Altmann, Adelina Bärligea, Jonas Stein, Michael Kölle, Thomas Gabor, Thomy Phan, and Claudia Linnhof-Popien. Quantum Circuit Design: A Reinforcement Learning Challenge. In: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. AAMAS ’24. Auckland, New Zealand: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2024, pp. 2123–2125.
Philipp Altmann, Jonas Stein, Michael Kölle, Adelina Bärligea, Maximilian Zorn, Thomas Gabor, Thomy Phan, Sebastian Feld, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Challenges for Reinforcement Learning in Quantum Circuit Design. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 1. 2024, pp. 1600–1610. arXiv: 2312.11337.
David Bucher, Nico Kraus, Jonas Blenninger, Michael Lachner, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Towards Robust Benchmarking of Quantum Optimization Algorithms. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 03. 2024, pp. 159–170. arXiv: 2405.07624.
Michael Kölle, Alessandro Giovagnoli, Jonas Stein, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Julian Hager, Tobias Rohe, Robert Müller, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Weight Re-mapping for Variational Quantum Algorithms. In: Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Ed. by Ana Paula Rocha, Luc Steels, and Jaap van den Herik. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, pp. 286–309. arXiv: 2306.05776.
Michael Kölle, Mohamad Hgog, Fabian Ritz, Philipp Altmann, Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Quantum Advantage Actor-Critic for Reinforcement Learning. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 1. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2024, pp. 297–304. arXiv: 2401.07043.
Michael Kölle, Jonas Maurer, Philipp Altmann, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Disentangling Quantum and Classical Contributions in Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning Architectures. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 3. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2024, pp. 649–656. arXiv: 2311.05559.
Michael Kölle, Tom Schubert, Philipp Altmann, Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. A Reinforcement Learning Environment for Directed Quantum Circuit Synthesis. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 1. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2024, pp. 83–94. arXiv: 2401.07054.
Michael Kölle, Daniel Seidl, Maximilian Zorn, Philipp Altmann, Jonas Stein, and Thomas Gabor. Optimizing Variational Quantum Circuits Using Metaheuristic Strategies in Reinforcement Learning. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 2. 2024, pp. 323–328. arXiv: 2408.01187.
Michael Kölle, Gerhard Stenzel, Jonas Stein, Sebastian Zielinski, Björn Ommer, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Quantum Denoising Diffusion Models. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW). 2024, pp. 88–98. arXiv: 2401.07049.
Jonas Nüßlein, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, Tobias Rohe, Daniëlle Schuman, Sebastian Feld, Corey O’Meara, Giorgio Cortiana, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Reducing QUBO Density by Factoring Out Semi-Symmetries. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 1. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2024, pp. 783–792. arXiv: 2412.17841.
Tobias Rohe, Daniëlle Schuman, Jonas Nüßlein, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. The Questionable Influence of Entanglement in Quantum Optimisation Algorithms. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 1. 2024, pp. 1497–1503. arXiv: 2407.17204.
Jonas Stein, Jonas Blenninger, David Bucher, Peter Josef Eder, Elif Çetiner, Maximilian Zorn, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. CUAOA: A Novel CUDA-Accelerated Simulation Framework for the QAOA. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 2. 2024, pp. 280–285. arXiv: 2407.13012.
Jonas Stein, Michael Poppel, Philip Adamczyk, Ramona Fabry, Zixin Wu, Michael Kölle, Jonas Nüßlein, Daniëlle Schuman, Philipp Altmann, Thomas Ehmer, Vijay Narasimhan, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Benchmarking Quantum Surrogate Models on Scarce and Noisy Data. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 3. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2024, pp. 352–359. arXiv: 2306.05042.
Jonas Stein, Navid Roshani, Maximilian Zorn, Philipp Altmann, Michael Kölle, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Improving Parameter Training for VQEs by Sequential Hamiltonian Assembly. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 2. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2024, pp. 99–109. arXiv: 2312.05552.
Jonas Stein, Daniëlle Schuman, Magdalena Benkard, Thomas Holger, Wanja Sajko, Michael Kölle, Jonas Nüßlein, Leo Sünkel, Olivier Salomon, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Exploring Unsupervised Anomaly Detection with Quantum Boltzmann Machines in Fraud Detection. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 2. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2024, pp. 177–185. arXiv: 2306.04998.
Jonas Stein, Tobias Rohe, Francesco Nappi, Julian Hager, David Bucher, Maximilian Zorn, Michael Kölle, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Introducing Reduced-Width QNNs, an AI-Inspired Ansatz Design Pattern. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 3. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2024, pp. 1127–1134. arXiv: 2306.05047.
Arnold Unterauer, David Bucher, Matthias Knoll, Constantin Economides, Michael Lachner, Thomas Germain, Moritz Kessel, Smajo Hajdinovic, and Jonas Stein. Solving the Turbine Balancing Problem using Quantum Annealing. In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. GECCO ’24 Companion. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, pp. 1972–1978. arXiv: 2405.06412.
Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Stein, Philipp Altmann, Michael Kölle, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, and Thomas Gabor. Cohesive Quantum Circuit Layer Construction with Reinforcement Learning. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 1. 2024, pp. 1721–1730.
2023
Philipp Altmann, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, Tobias Müller, Christoph Roch, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. SEQUENT: Towards Traceable Quantum Machine Learning Using Sequential Quantum Enhanced Training. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 3. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2023, pp. 744–751. arXiv: 2301.02601.
Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Franziska Wörle, Jonas Stein, Robert Müller, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Adapting the DisCoCat-Model for Question Answering in the Chinese Language. In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 1. 2023, pp. 591–600.
Michael Kölle, Alessandro Giovagnoli, Jonas Stein, Maximilian Mansky, Julian Hager, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Improving Convergence for Quantum Variational Classifiers Using Weight Re-Mapping. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART. Vol. 2. INSTICC. SciTePress, 2023, pp. 251–258. arXiv: 2212.14807.
Jonas Nüßlein, Christoph Roch, Thomas Gabor, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, and Sebastian Feld. Black Box Optimization Using QUBO and the Cross Entropy Method. In: Computational Science – ICCS 2023. Ed. by Jiří Mikyška, Clélia de Mulatier, Maciej Paszynski, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Jack J. Dongarra, and Peter M.A. Sloot. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, pp. 48–55. arXiv: 2206.12510.
Daniëlle Schuman, Leo Sünkel, Philipp Altmann, Jonas Stein, Christoph Roch, Thomas Gabor, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Towards Transfer Learning for Large-Scale Image Classification Using Annealing-Based Quantum Boltzmann Machines. In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 2. 2023, pp. 42–47. arXiv: 2311.15966.
Jonas Stein, Farbod Chamanian, Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Nüßlein, Sebastian Zielinski, Michael Kölle, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Evidence that PUBO outperforms QUBO when solving continuous optimization problems with the QAOA. In: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. GECCO ’23 Companion. Lisbon, Portugal: Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, pp. 2254–2262. arXiv: 2305.03390.
Jonas Stein, Ivo Christ, Nicolas Kraus, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Robert Müller, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Applying QNLP to Sentiment Analysis in Finance. In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 2. 2023, pp. 20–25. arXiv: 2307.11788.
Jonas Stein, Dominik Ott, Jonas Nüßlein, David Bucher, Mirco Schönfeld, and Sebastian Feld. NISQ-Ready Community Detection Based on Separation-Node Identification. In: Mathematics 11.15 (2023), pp. 1–19. arXiv: 2212.14717.
Petros Stougiannidis, Jonas Stein, David Bucher, Sebastian Zielinski, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, and Sebastian Feld. Approximative Lookup-Tables and Arbitrary Function Rotations for Facilitating NISQ-Implementations of the HHL and Beyond. In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Vol. 1. 2023, pp. 151–160. arXiv: 2306.05024.
Sebastian Zielinski, Jonas Nüßlein, Jonas Stein, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, and Sebastian Feld. Influence of Different 3SAT-to-QUBO Transformations on the Solution Quality of Quantum Annealing: A Benchmark Study. In: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. GECCO ’23 Companion. Lisbon, Portugal: Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, pp. 2263–2271. arXiv: 2305.00720.
Sebastian Zielinski, Jonas Nüßlein, Jonas Stein, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, and Sebastian Feld. Pattern QUBOs: Algorithmic Construction of 3SAT-to-QUBO Transformations. In: Electronics 12.16 (2023). arXiv: 2305.02659.
2022
Thomas Gabor, Michael Lachner, Nico Kraus, Christoph Roch, Jonas Stein, Daniel Ratke, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. Modifying the quantum-assisted genetic algorithm. In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. GECCO ’22 Companion. Boston, Massachusetts: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022, pp. 2205–2213.