Multi Digit Ising Mapping for Low Precision Ising Solvers

Abstract

The last couple of years have seen an ever-increasing interest in using different Ising solvers, like Quantum annealers, Coherent Ising machines, and Oscillator-based Ising machines, for solving tough computational problems in various domains. Although the simulations predict massive performance improvements for several tough computational problems, the real implementations of the Ising solvers tend to have limited precision, which can cause significant performance deterioration. This paper presents a novel methodology for mapping the problem on the Ising solvers to artificially increase the effective precision. We further evaluate our method for the Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output signal detection problem.