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LATTE: A Decoding Architecture for Quantum Computing with Temporal and Spatial Scalability

Quantum Physics 2025-09-05 v1

Abstract

Quantum error correction allows inherently noisy quantum devices to emulate an ideal quantum computer with reasonable resource overhead. As a crucial component, decoding architectures have received significant attention recently. In this paper, we introduce LATTE, a FPGA-CPU hybrid decoding architecture aiming to address the key requirements of scaling up in lattice surgery quantum computation -- Latency, Accuracy, Throughput and Transmission Bandwidth, in an Eclectic manner. LATTE follows a hierarchical design: (1) A fully streaming and asynchronous block decoding system on CPU to enable parallelization both temporally and spatially. (2) A super-light yet accurate neural local decoding unit integrated with quantum control hardware on FPGA, which remains \emph{transparent} to the block decoding system, effectively reducing transmission bandwidth and accelerating the decoding process. LATTE delivers accuracy on par with the base decoder while achieving real-time decoding throughput and significantly reducing both bandwidth requirements and computational resources, enabling a level of scalability far beyond previous approaches. Under circuit-level noise p=0.001p=0.001, LATTE achieves over 90%\mathbf{90\%} reduction in transmission bandwidth and a 6.4×\mathbf{6.4\times} speedup on average in single-block decoding. In the \emph{streaming decoding} scenario: (1) LATTE achieves constant and low latency (16×\mathbf{16\times}-20×\mathbf{20\times} speedup over existing streaming decoding implementations) in arbitrarily long quantum memory experiments, with near-optimal resources -- merely 2\mathbf{2} threads are sufficient for decoding the surface code with distance up to 1717. (2) LATTE minimizes latency in multi-patch measurement experiments through highly parallelized decoding operations. These combined efforts ensure sufficient scalability for large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing.

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@article{arxiv.2509.03954,
  title  = {LATTE: A Decoding Architecture for Quantum Computing with Temporal and Spatial Scalability},
  author = {Kai Zhang and Jubo Xu and Fang Zhang and Linghang Kong and Zhengfeng Ji and Jianxin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.03954},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

13 pages, 10 figures

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