Researchers have developed a quantum-inspired framework that compresses large Ising models to fit available quantum hardware.
The framework utilizes a physics-inspired GNN architecture to capture complex interactions in Ising models and predict alignments among neighboring qubits.
By progressively merging aligned qubits, the model size can be reduced while preserving the optimization structure.
Numerical studies have shown that the method effectively reduces instance size without compromising solution quality on quantum annealers.