arxiv5/20/2026, 2:38:03 AM
Quantum QUBO Decoding Breakthrough: PCE + Problem-Aware Decoder Scales mRNA Structure Prediction to Noisy HardwarePauli Correlation Encoding (PCE) compresses binary optimization variables onto exponentially fewer qubits via commuting Pauli correlators, but decoding its continuous expectation values into feasible binary solutions is non-trivial for dense-constraint QUBOs. This paper introduce…