Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this talk, Corey O'Meara from E.ON explores peer to peer energy trading on local grids using the Birkhoff decomposition. You will see how hard minimum Birkhoff decomposition instances from the Quantum Optimization Benchmarking Library are tackled with a new Frank Wolfe based heuristic that uses QAOA as a sampling subroutine, outperforming the best classical solvers in simulation and running at utility scale on IBM hardware.
In this talk, Corey O'Meara from E.ON explores peer to peer energy trading on local grids using the Birkhoff decomposition. You will see how hard minimum Birkhoff decomposition instances from the Quantum Optimization Benchmarking Library are tackled with a new Frank Wolfe based heuristic that uses QAOA as a sampling subroutine, outperforming the best classical solvers in simulation and running at utility scale on IBM hardware.
