arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 3

Toward Uncertainty-Aware and Generalizable Neural Decoding for Quantum LDPC Codes

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.

By Xiangjun Mi, Frank Mueller