Attending the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

I’m happy to announce that we will share two contributions to the conference ICASSP 2026. The first contribution is a natural extension and enhancement of the Hybrid quantum-classical approach for anomaly detection in one-dimensional time series discussed here. The second contribution, instead, is focused on the QAOA and proposes a new variant of this quantum optimization algorithm where the standard QAOA ansatz is enhanced via a blockwise optimization strategy of its parameters and with the addition of a multi-parameterized layer before the measurements. Further details about this second contribution will be given in a subsequent announcement (I still have to update the blog!). If you are in Barcelona in the period 4-8 may we have our presentations already scheduled (see here and here), feel free to say hi!