I held a Tutorial on Variational Quantum Algorithms with my colleague, Carlo Mastroianni, during The 33rd International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing is scheduled on June 3-7, 2024, in Pisa, Italy (ACM HPDC 2024)
Title: Variational Quantum Algorithms for Resource Management in Cloud/Edge Architectures
Speakers: Carlo Mastroianni (ICAR-CNR, Italy), Andrea Vinci (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
The tutorial offers a practical introduction to the fascinating world of quantum computation and its application to optimization and machine learning. The participants will gain hands-on experience in developing hybrid “Variational Quantum Algorithms” (VQA), which combine classical and quantum computation, and in running them on simulators and real quantum hardware. As a concrete use case, the tutorial will discuss the problem of the optimal assignment of resources on the different nodes and layers of a Cloud/Edge architecture. The participants will be driven, step-by-step, to the reformulation of this NP-hard problem in terms of an Ising problem, which is then solved through two VQA algorithms, i.e., Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), by exploiting the libraries of IBM Qiskit and Xanadu Pennylane. The tutorial will discuss the perspectives on the use of quantum computation for optimization and machine learning, and the possible avenues for future academic research and industrial developments. The tutorial is thought for computer engineers and application developers who are curious about the concrete adoption of quantum computation in real-life scenarios.
Some related scientific publications are given below.
Quantum Variational Algorithms for the Allocation of Resources in a Cloud/Edge Architecture Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, 2024, ISSN: 26891808.
Tutorial on Variational Quantum Algorithms for Resource Management in Cloud/Edge Architectures Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, pp. 350–351, Association for Computing Machinery, Pisa, Italy, 2024, ISBN: 9798400704130.
Assessing Quantum Computing Performance for Energy Optimization in a Prosumer Community Journal Article
In: IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 444–456, 2024, ISSN: 1949-3061.
Quantum Computing Management of a Cloud/Edge Architecture Proceedings Article
In: Bartolini, Andrea; Rietveld, Kristian F. D.; Schuman, Catherine D.; Moreira, Jose (Ed.): Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF 2023, pp. 193–196, ACM, 2023.