Learning Encodings by Maximizing State Distinguishability: Variational Quantum Error Correction

arXiv:2506.11552 · quant-ph, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-06-13 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-06-13

Updated: 2026-09-02

Comments: 47 pages, 24 figures, 8 tables

Journal ref: Quantum Sci. Technol. 11, 045036 (2026)

DOI: 10.1088/2058-9565/ae98b1

Code: https://github.com/nicomeyer96/varqec

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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• Loss Function — 27× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 17× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Adaptability — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
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• Hilbert Space — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 6× in this paper
• Quantum Circuits — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reward Function — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Computing and Engineering — 3× in this paper
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Decode — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Data — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• All-to-All Connectivity — 1× in this paper
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Optimization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Objective Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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