Performance analysis of classical adiabatic annealing on Ising machines

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Original abstract

Ising machines are a promising approach to solve combinatorial optimization problems. They map these problems onto the Ising model and search for low-energy configurations. However, navigating the rugged energy landscapes of these systems remains difficult. To improve this navigation, classical adiabatic annealing has been proposed in the literature as a heuristic optimization method for classical Ising machines. Using this technique, the Hamiltonian of the Ising machine is gradually transformed from an easily solvable Hamiltonian to the target Hamiltonian. However, its purported effectiveness is primarily motivated by an analogy to quantum adiabatic annealing, and systematic benchmarking has remained limited. In this work, we analyze the classical adiabatic annealing technique using continuation methods. Motivated by insights from this analysis, we propose an optimized annealing strategy we refer to as hybrid classical adiabatic annealing. We benchmark our proposed strategy using MaxCut instances with up to 800 spins and problems with external fields, for which it achieves a marginal improvement for a limited set of problems. We conclude that, although theoretically motivated and occasionally beneficial, the hybrid strategy does not offer a sufficient practical advantage over simpler, existing techniques.

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