Passive and actives approaches to mitigating the effects of spin-bath polarization are described and illustrated. Such may, for example, include at least partially depolarizing the spin-bath polarization, for instance by: performing an annealing cycle by the quantum processor to generate a final state of a qubit of the quantum processor; flipping the final state of the qubit of the quantum processor to an opposite state; and latching the qubit in the opposite state for a predetermined duration.