On the set of catenary degrees of finitely generated cancellative commutative monoids. - Christopher O'Neill; Vadim Ponomarenko; Reuben Tate; Gautam Webb (Int. J. Algebra Comput., 2016)

Classical Optimization to Improve Variational Quantum Algorithms. - Reuben Tate (2023)

Warm-Started QAOA with Custom Mixers Provably Converges and Computationally Beats Goemans-Williamson's Max-Cut at Low Circuit Depths. - Reuben Tate; Jai Moondra; Bryan Gard; Greg Mohler; Swati Gupta 001 (Quantum, 2023)

Guarantees on Warm-Started QAOA: Single-Round Approximation Ratios for 3-Regular MAXCUT and Higher-Round Scaling Limits. - Reuben Tate; Stephan J. Eidenbenz (CoRR, 2024)

The Better Solution Probability Metric: Optimizing QAOA to Outperform its Warm-Start Solution. - Sean Feeney; Reuben Tate; Stephan J. Eidenbenz (CoRR, 2024)

Expected Maximin Fairness in Max-Cut and other Combinatorial Optimization Problems. - Jad Salem; Reuben Tate; Stephan J. Eidenbenz (CoRR, 2024)

Warm-Started QAOA with Aligned Mixers Converges Slowly Near the Poles of the Bloch Sphere. - Reuben Tate; Stephan J. Eidenbenz (SOFSEM (2), 2025)

Solving General QUBOs with Warm-Start QAOA via a Reduction to Max-Cut. - Bikrant Bhattachayra; Michael Capriotti; Reuben Tate (CoRR, 2025)