Loan Portfolio Optimization with Variational Quantum Algorithms

arXiv:2609.30195 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Comments: 14 pages, 10 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Unexpected Loss — 11× in this paper
• Credit Score — 8× in this paper
• Objective Function — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Variational Quantum Algorithm — 5× in this paper
• Combinatorial Optimization — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Loss Given Default — 3× in this paper
• Quadratic Constrained Binary Optimization — 3× in this paper
• QUBO Formulation — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization — 2× in this paper
• Entanglement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Linear Constrained Binary Optimization — 1× in this paper
• Pauli Correlation Encoding (PCE) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Points to Double the Odds — 1× in this paper
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Through Pauli Correlation Encoding — 1× in this paper

Sources

• A Survey of Quantum Computing for Finance
• A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm
• Progressive Binarization - Pauli Correlation Encoding: a Continuation Method for Constrained Optimization
• Quantum computing with Qiskit

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