Quantum Optimization Benchmarking Library

Benchmark instances and solution submissions for quantum optimization.

QOBLIB collects ten challenging optimization problem classes with practical motivation, reference models, known solutions, and community-submitted results.

10 Problem classes
989 Instances
26 Submission sets
588 Ranked results

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Problem classes

Each card links to generated repository summaries and source files for the corresponding benchmark class.

01

Market Split

Subset sum / MIP / QUBO / min

Multi-dimensional Subset Sum

These instances stress multi-constraint subset-sum structure, where feasibility is easy to state but difficult to certify at useful sizes.

Instances
156
Submissions
5
Results
121
02

LABS

Binary sequences / QUBO / Ising / min

Low Autocorrelation Binary Sequences

LABS is a canonical spin benchmark with direct links to communications, radar, and cryptography, and it becomes difficult as sequence length grows.

Instances
103
Submissions
5
Results
207
03

Minimum Birkhoff Decomposition

Matrix decomposition / MIP / min

Doubly Stochastic Matrix Decomposition

Minimum Birkhoff decomposition connects assignment structure, sparse representation, and quantum physics applications through a hard cardinality objective.

Instances
108
Submissions
3
Results
80
04

Steiner Tree Packing

Network design / MIP / min

VLSI Design / Wire Routing

Steiner tree packing models wire routing pressure in VLSI-style grids, where many connection demands must coexist without conflicts.

Instances
190
Submissions
0
Results
0
05

Sports Tournament Scheduling

Scheduling / CSP / MIP / min

Constraint Satisfaction Problem

Sports timetabling captures realistic constraint interactions from round-robin tournaments and includes instances selected for diversity and difficulty.

Instances
249
Submissions
1
Results
0
06

Portfolio Optimization

Finance / QUBO / BQP / min

Multi-period with Transaction Costs & Short Selling

Portfolio instances add transaction costs, short selling, borrowing costs, and time coupling to a familiar financial optimization model.

Instances
32
Submissions
3
Results
2
07

Maximum Independent Set

Graph optimization / QUBO / MIP / max

Unweighted MIS

Maximum independent set is a fundamental graph problem with compact QUBO structure and hard instances from social, biological, and benchmark graphs.

Instances
50
Submissions
5
Results
111
08

Network Design

Telecommunications / MIP / min

Telecommunications Network Planning

Network design represents traffic-routing and degree-constrained infrastructure planning, with objective values tied to congestion.

Instances
20
Submissions
1
Results
20
09

Vehicle Routing

Logistics / MIP / min

VRP: TSP + Time Window + Knapsack

Vehicle routing combines route selection, capacity, and time-window pressure, reflecting core logistics and mobility applications.

Instances
55
Submissions
0
Results
0
10

Topology Design

Graph design / Graph search / MIP / min

Graph Golf / Node-Degree-Diameter Problem

Topology design asks for low-diameter graphs under degree limits, a concise model for communication latency and network architecture.

Instances
26
Submissions
3
Results
48

Complexity landscape

Difficulty summaries from the QOBLIB paper data included in the repository.

Mixed Integer Programming formulations
Mixed Integer Programming formulations
QUBO formulations
QUBO formulations