The decision on the table
Reinforcement plans are usually chosen by heuristics that return a good plan but cannot show it is the best one. That leaves the planner unable to defend the choice line by line.
Energy · networks
Commit to a grid-expansion plan you can show is the best
A network-expansion plan shown optimal over every one of more than a million alternatives, plus a direct read of the network’s real-time response.
Headline result
Best of 1,048,576 plans
Optimal over all 1,048,576 build combinations of one expansion case
Classical computationMeasured on quantum hardware
What we did, with proprietary methods
For a network-expansion case with twenty candidate builds we searched the whole space of plans and showed the chosen plan is the global optimum. Separately, we read the network’s real-time response directly on quantum hardware, which inversion from classical data does not deliver.
What it was worth
Optimal over all 1,048,576 build combinations of one expansion case
A plan shown to be the best available
- Baseline
- A heuristic plan with no guarantee of optimality
- Condition
- Optimal over all 1,048,576 build combinations of one expansion case
A direct real-time response read
- Baseline
- Inversion from imaginary-time data, which is ill-posed
- Condition
- Read directly on quantum hardware for the same network
What happened next
The plan went forward with a proof behind it: optimal over all 1,048,576 build combinations. The network's real-frequency response was also read directly on quantum hardware for the same network.
Decision it enabled
A plan shown to be the best available
Instead of: A heuristic plan with no guarantee of optimality
Verified by · Our exhaustive classical computation; the response read is a device result.
How we know
- 01Exhaustive search over 2^20 build plans; one basin, one global optimum (classical computation).
- 02Real-frequency response read directly on quantum hardware.
- 03Not claimed: any speed advantage for quantum in finding the plan.
StatusClassical computationMeasured on quantum hardwareOptimality established by exhaustive classical computation; the response read is measured on quantum hardware.
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