GNN-Guided Graph Coarsening and Adaptive QUBO Penalties for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows on a Quantum Annealer
Graph coarsening reduces the large Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) formulations arising when vehicle-routing problems are solved by quantum annealing. Nearby customers with compatible time windows are merged into super-nodes, the reduced problem is solved, and the solution is expanded to the original...