Partitioning Hypergraphs in DQC
January 2026
Hypergraphs are a natural way to encode multi-qubit dependencies. They have been widely used in DQC research to abstract and partition quantum computations. This partitioning has been done through heuristics designed to tackle the hypergraph partitioning problem. In this post I will give a quick overview of the problem, its relevance to DQC, and some of the most popular heuristics used to tackle it.