Overview of QuantumCLEF 2025: The Second Quantum Computing Challenge for Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems at CLEF

Andrea Pasin, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Washington Cunha, Marcos André Gonçalves, Paolo Cremonesi, Nicola Ferro

Abstract: Quantum Computing (QC) is an emerging research field that is attracting significant interest from the scientific community due to its potential to solve complex problems more efficiently than traditional computers by leveraging the principles of quantum physics. Even though real quantum computers exist, at the moment we are still in the early stages of development of these innovative technologies, and many of their capabilities and limitations are yet to be discovered.