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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2016
1qb Information Technologies Inc., Vancouver, CA;
1QB INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC., Vancouver, British Columbia, CA;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for determining a minimum connected dominating set in a graph, the method comprising obtaining an indication of an input graph, the input graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges; generating a distance table comprising for each node of the input graph, an indication of a distance between the given node and each of the other node of the plurality of nodes; generating a corresponding constrained binary quadratic programming problem using the generated distance table; providing the corresponding constrained binary quadratic programming problem to a quantum annealing solver; obtaining at least one approximate solution from the quantum annealing solver; post-processing the at least one approximate solution and providing the post-processed at least one approximate solution.