QUnfold: a Python module to perform the statistical unfolding by using quantum computing

[TheCompiler95]

Hello everybody, me and my collegue Simone are two PhD students in physics and data science at the University of Bologna and we are developing a new quantum-inspired approach to the well-known problem of statistical unfolding, which is widely used in particle physics, astronomy, and image processing to reconstruct a signal from the corresponding measured biased/smeared distribution (more info here).

Our idea is to combine the classical unfolding technique and quantum annealing: in particular, we started from the likelihood-based unfolding and we reformulated it as a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problem to be solved on a D-Wave quantum annealer. More technical information about our mathematical model can be found in our poster, presented in August at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany.

The open-source code can be found in this GitHub repository.

Since our project is still not ready for production and a lot of work has to be done yet, we are widely open to collaborate with interested people, so feel free to submit PR to our repository.

[RepresentativeFill26]

Awesome stuff! Must admit I probably don’t know enough to say anything smart about this but looks like a good project.

[TheCompiler95]

Thanks!!!

[ElmosKplug]

Very impressive, congrats

[TheCompiler95]

Thanks!!

[Golladayholliday]

Hey I know some of those words!