QUBO Formulator

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QUBO (Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization) formulation skill for optimization problems

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the QUBO Formulator skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/specializations/domains/science/quantum-computing/skills/qubo-formulator/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Purpose

Provides expert guidance on formulating optimization problems as QUBO/Ising models for execution on quantum annealers and variational algorithms.

Capabilities

  • Problem encoding to QUBO/Ising
  • Constraint handling (penalty methods)
  • Variable reduction techniques
  • D-Wave integration
  • QAOA cost Hamiltonian construction
  • Solution decoding
  • Embedding optimization
  • Penalty weight tuning

Usage Guidelines

  1. Problem Definition: Formalize optimization problem mathematically
  2. Binary Encoding: Convert variables to binary representation
  3. Constraint Handling: Add penalty terms for constraints
  4. QUBO Construction: Build quadratic matrix form
  5. Solution Interpretation: Decode binary solutions to original problem

Tools/Libraries

  • D-Wave Ocean
  • PyQUBO
  • Qiskit Optimization
  • dimod
  • dwavebinarycsp

Signals

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qubo-formulator
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