Publications

2022

MAQO: A Scalable Many-Core Annealer for Quadratic Optimization
Authors: M. Bagherbeik, W. Xu, S.F. Mousavi, K. Kanda, H. Tamura, A. Sheikholeslami
IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits, 2022, 76-77.

Exploiting Hardware and Software Advances for Quadratic Models of Wind Farm Layout OptimizationM
Authors: A. Senderovich, J. Zhang, E. Cohen, J. C. Beck
IEEE Access, 2022, Vol. 10, 78044-78055.

Model-based Approaches to Multi-Attribute Diverse Matching
Authors: J. Zhang, G. Lo Bianco, J. C. Beck
International Conference on Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research, 2022, 424-440.

Solving Job-Shop Scheduling Problems with QUBO-Based Specialized Hardware
Authors: J. Zhang, G. Lo Bianco, J. C. Beck
International Conference on Integration of Constraint Programming, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2022.

2021

The power of parallelism in stochastic search for global optimum: Keynote paper
Authors: A. Sheikholeslami
IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, 36-42.

Jump Markov chains and rejection-free Metropolis Algorithm
Authors: J. S. Rosenthal, A. Dote, K. Dabiri, H. Tamura, S. Chen, A. Sheikholeslami
Computational Statistics, 36(4), 2789-2811.

Caching and Vectorization Schemes to Accelerate Local Search Algorithms for Assignment Problems
Authors: M. Bagherbeik, A. Sheikholeslami
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2021, 2549-2558.

Market Graph Clustering via QUBO and Digital Annealing
Authors: S.W. Hong, P. Miasnikof, R. Kwon, Y. Lawryshyn
Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2021, 14 (1), 34.

2020

Distances on a Graph
Authors: P. Miasnikof, A. Y. Shestopaloff, L. Pitsoulis, A. Ponomarenko, Y. Lawryshyn
International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, 2020, 189-199.

A Hamiltonian Engine for Radiotherapy Optimization
Authors: M. Malekmohammadi, K. Dabiri, J. Mathews, D.P. Nazareth, H. Tamura, A. Sheikholeslami
42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 5085-5088

A Permutational Boltzmann Machine with Parallel Tempering for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Authors: M. Bagherbeik, P. Ashtari, S.F. Mousavi, K. Kanda, H. Tamura, A. Sheikholeslami
International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, August 2020

Routing and Wavelength Assignment with Protection: A QUBO and Digital Annealer Approach
Authors: O. Seker, M. Bodur, H. Pouya
Submitted for publication, August 2020

Authors: S. Hong, P. Miasnikof, R. Kwon, Y. Lawryshyn
Submitted for publication, June 2020

Market Graph Clustering Via QUBO and Digital Annealing
Authors: S. Hong, P. Miasnikof, R. Kwon, Y. Lawryshyn
Submitted for publication, June 2020

QUBO Clustering of Large Graphs
Authors: P. Miasnikof, A.Y. Shestopaloff, L. Pitsoulis, Y. Lawryshyn
Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization, June 2020 (Accepted)

Graph Distances and Clustering
Authors: P. Miasnikof, A.Y. Shestopaloff, L. Pitsoulis, Y. Lawryshyn
Submitted for publication, April 2020

An Ising Framework for Constrained Clustering on Special Purpose Hardware
Authors: E. Cohen, A. Senderovich, J. C. Beck
International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research, 2020

Replica Exchange MCMC Hardware with Automatic Temperature Selection and Parallel Trial
Authors: K. Dabiri, M. Malekmohammadi, A. Sheikholeslami, H. Tamura
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2020

2019

From Whole to Parts: Medical Imaging Semantic Segmentation with Very Imbalanced Data
Authors: J. Wang, S. Valaee
IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2019

Ising Dropout with Node Grouping for Training and Compression of Deep Neural Networks
Authors: H. Salehinejad, Z. Wang, S. Valaee
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, 2019

Jump Markov Chains and Rejection-Free Metropolis Algorithms
Authors: J.S. Rosenthal, A. Dote, K. Dabiri, H. Tamura, A. Sheikholeslami
Submitted for publication, October 2019

Enhancing Medical Imaging Semantic Segmentation using the Digital Annealer
Authors: J. Wang, S. Valaee
IEEE Data Science Workshop 2019

QUBO Formulation for Portfolio Optimization
Authors: P. Hong, Y. Lawryshyn, Roy Kwon
Canadian Operational Research Society, 2019

Digitally Annealed Solution for the Maximum Clique Problem with Critical Application in Cellular V2X
Authors: Z. Naghsh, M. Javad-Kalbasi, S. Valaee
IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2019

Graph Clustering via Digital Annealer
Authors: P. Miasnikof, Y. Lawryshyn
International Conference on Network Analysis, 2019

Digitally Annealed Solution for the Vertex Cover Problem with Application in Cyber Security
Authors: M. Javad-Kalbasi, K. Dabiri, S. Valaee, A. Sheikholeslami
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2019

Ising Model Formulation of Outlier Rejection, with Application in WiFi Based Positioning
Authors: M.T. Rahman, S. Han, N. Tadayon, S. Valaee
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2019

Ising-Dropout: A Regularization Method for Training and Compression of Deep Neural Networks
Authors: H. Salehinejad, S. Valaee
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2019