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Reinforcement Learning for Syndrome Extraction
arXiv:2609.12020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key subtask of quantum error correction is to extract a syndrome that, if nontrivial, signals an error. The number of possible ways to extract a syndr
arXiv:2609.12020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key subtask of quantum error correction is to extract a syndrome that, if nontrivial, signals an error. The number of possible ways to extract a syndrome grows exponentially with the syndrome size, and these implementations vary greatly in fault tolerance, as measured by their logical error rates. This creates a natural search problem: find an implementation with a low logical error rate. Previous work solves this problem but sacrifices either solution quality or scalability. In this paper, we use reinforcement learning and importance sampling to outperform previous work at all scales. Compared with the state of the art automatic scheduling tools AlphaSyndrome and PropHunt, our tool reduces the logical error rate by 25.9% and 71.7% on average, respectively, culminating with a reduction of 97.8% for a surface code with distance 15.
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Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-09-14