arXiv:2601. 00242v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Realizing the full potential of quantum computation requires Quantum Error Correction (QEC).
arXiv:2607. 05814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time decoding is a major bottleneck in scaling quantum error correction (QEC) from noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices to fault-tolerant quantum computing.
arXiv:2608. 15760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decoding is an essential component of quantum error correction (QEC), translating stabilizer measurement outcomes into corrective actions that suppress logical errors and preserve logical quantum information.
arXiv:2607. 28422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) relies on quantum error correction to suppress physical errors and preserve logical information at scale.
The paper introduces QuBA, a Quantum Bayesian graph Attention decoder that provides expressive error-pattern recognition and calibrated uncertainty estimates for quantum error correction. It also presents SAGU, a multi-phase training framework that enhances cross-domain robustness, allowing decoding beyond the training set. Experiments on bivariate bicycle codes show that both QuBA and SAGU outperform classical belief propagation, achieving up to two orders of magnitude lower logical error rates and comparable or better performance than domain-specific training approaches.
arXiv:2503.24111v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (QGNNs) offer a promising approach to combining quantum computing with graph-structured data processing. While classica...
The paper introduces a new objective function for designing quantum error correction codes that maximizes the distinguishability of quantum states after a noise channel. This approach, called variational quantum error correction (VarQEC), uses a distinguishability loss function as a machine learning objective to discover encoding circuits tailored to specific noise characteristics. The authors demonstrate that VarQEC produces resource‑efficient codes that outperform standard codes and provide proof‑of‑concept experiments on IBM and IQM hardware.
arXiv:2604. 06135v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficient data loading remains a bottleneck for near-term quantum machine learning.
arXiv:2602. 16018v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a powerful framework for learning representations from graph-structured data, but their direct implementation on near-term quantum hardware remains challenging due to circuit depth, multi-qubit interactions, and qubit scalability constraints.
The paper proposes a hybrid, learning‑based strategy for selecting quantum error‑correcting codes at each concatenation level. By estimating the effective noise channel after each level, the method chooses small, non‑additive encoders when the noise has structure and switches to standard codes as the noise becomes uniform. Simulations show that this adaptive approach can achieve a target logical error rate with up to two orders of magnitude fewer qubits than using stabilizer codes alone for strongly structured noise.
The paper implements two quantum graph neural network architectures—Simplified Graph Convolution (SGC) and Linear Graph Convolution (LGC)—and evaluates them on benchmark graph datasets for semi‑supervised learning using quantum simulation. It compares their predictive performance and optimization behavior to classical baselines, finding that the quantum models achieve competitive results with fewer parameters. Additionally, the study provides a cost‑gradient analysis to identify trainable tasks and a classical simulability investigation to determine regimes where the circuits remain robust during training.
arXiv:2606. 26312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoencoders transformed classical machine learning by solving the curse of dimensionality, enabling principled weight initialization and learning compact, structured representations.
arXiv:2606. 27119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation decoders, a class of high-capacity neural decoders, are leading candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computing, with accurate and efficient decoding at large code distances.