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The LLM Agent, equipped with a code interpreter, is capable of automatically solving real-world coding tasks, such as data analysis and image editing. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on either simplistic tasks, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yaolun Zhang , Yinxu Pan , Yudong Wang , Jie Cai

To avoid prohibitive overheads in performing fault-tolerant quantum computation, the decoding problem needs to be solved accurately and at speeds sufficient for fast feedback. Existing decoding systems fail to satisfy both of these…

Error syndromes for heavy hexagonal code and other topological codes such as surface code have typically been decoded by using Minimum Weight Perfect Matching (MWPM) based methods. Recent advances have shown that topological codes can be…

Minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM) has been been the primary classical algorithm for error correction in the surface code, since it is of low runtime complexity and achieves relatively low logical error rates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Adrian Hutter , James R. Wootton , Daniel Loss

An important step of many image editing tasks is to extract specific objects from an image in order to place them in a scene of a movie or compose them onto another background. Alpha matting describes the problem of separating the objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Thomas Germer , Tobias Uelwer , Stefan Conrad , Stefan Harmeling

Topological quantum codes are favored because they allow qubit layouts that are suitable for practical implementation. An $N$-qubit topological code can be decoded by minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM) with complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Kao-Yueh Kuo , Ching-Yi Lai

In classical computing, error-correcting codes are well established and are ubiquitous both in theory and practical applications. For quantum computing, error-correction is essential as well, but harder to realize, coming along with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Lucas Berent , Lukas Burgholzer , Peter-Jan H. S. Derks , Jens Eisert , Robert Wille

In modern software development, Python third-party libraries play a critical role, especially in fields like deep learning and scientific computing. However, API parameters in these libraries often change during evolution, leading to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Shuai Zhang , Guanping Xiao , Jun Wang , Huashan Lei , Gangqiang He , Yepang Liu , Zheng Zheng

We introduce the spanning tree matching (STM) decoder for surface codes, which guarantees the error correction capability up to the code's designed distance by first employing an instance of the minimum spanning tree on a subset of ancilla…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Diego Forlivesi , Lorenzo Valentini , Marco Chiani

Python has become the dominant language for general-purpose programming, yet it lacks robust tools for formal verification. In contrast, programmers working in languages such as C benefit from mature model checkers, for example CBMC, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Pedro Orvalho , Marta Kwiatkowska

QMetro++ is a Python package that provides a set of tools for identifying optimal estimation protocols that maximize quantum Fisher information (QFI). Optimization can be performed for arbitrary configurations of input states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Piotr Dulian , Stanisław Kurdziałek , Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański

We introduce surface ZZZY codes, a novel family of quantum error-correcting codes designed for asymmetric channels. Derived from standard surface codes through tailored modification of generators, ZZZY codes can be decoded by the minimum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Diego Forlivesi , Lorenzo Valentini , Marco Chiani

Quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) are necessary for fault-tolerant quantum computation. Surface codes are a class of topological QECCs that have attracted significant attention due to their exceptional error-correcting capabilities and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jifan Liang , Qianfan Wang , Lvzhou Li , Xiao Ma

As wide-field surveys yield ever more precise measurements, cosmology has entered a phase of high precision requiring highly accurate and fast theoretical predictions. At the heart of most cosmological model predictions is a numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-18 Alexandre Refregier , Lukas Gamper , Adam Amara , Lavinia Heisenberg

With the rapid developments in quantum hardware comes a push towards the first practical applications on these devices. While fully fault-tolerant quantum computers may still be years away, one may ask if there exist intermediate forms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Jarrod R. McClean , Zhang Jiang , Nicholas C. Rubin , Ryan Babbush , Hartmut Neven

Probabilistic programming (PP) allows flexible specification of Bayesian statistical models in code. PyMC3 is a new, open-source PP framework with an intutive and readable, yet powerful, syntax that is close to the natural syntax…

Computation · Statistics 2015-07-30 John Salvatier , Thomas Wiecki , Christopher Fonnesbeck

The surface code is one of the most promising candidates for combating errors in large scale fault-tolerant quantum computation. A fault-tolerant decoder is a vital part of the error correction process---it is the algorithm which computes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Fern H. E. Watson , Hussain Anwar , Dan E. Browne

We present PySCo, a fast and user-friendly Python library designed to run cosmological $N$-body simulations across various cosmological models, such as $\Lambda$CDM and $w_0w_a$CDM, and alternative theories of gravity, including $f(R)$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Michel-Andrès Breton

We introduce harmonization, an ensembling method that combines several "noisy" decoders to generate highly accurate decoding predictions. Harmonized ensembles of MWPM-based decoders achieve lower logical error rates than their individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Noah Shutty , Michael Newman , Benjamin Villalonga

Consider a 2-D square array of qubits of extent $L\times L$. We provide a proof that the minimum weight perfect matching problem associated with running a particular class of topological quantum error correction codes on this array can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Austin G. Fowler