Quantum Verifiable Rewards for Post-Training Qiskit Code Assistant

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Main Authors: Dupuis, Nicolas, Tiwari, Adarsh, Mroueh, Youssef, Kremer, David, Faro, Ismael, Cruz-Benito, Juan
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Published: 2025
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author Dupuis, Nicolas
Tiwari, Adarsh
Mroueh, Youssef
Kremer, David
Faro, Ismael
Cruz-Benito, Juan
author_facet Dupuis, Nicolas
Tiwari, Adarsh
Mroueh, Youssef
Kremer, David
Faro, Ismael
Cruz-Benito, Juan
contents Qiskit is an open-source quantum computing framework that allows users to design, simulate, and run quantum circuits on real quantum hardware. We explore post-training techniques for LLMs to assist in writing Qiskit code. We introduce quantum verification as an effective method for ensuring code quality and executability on quantum hardware. To support this, we developed a synthetic data pipeline that generates quantum problem-unit test pairs and used it to create preference data for aligning LLMs with DPO. Additionally, we trained models using GRPO, leveraging quantum-verifiable rewards provided by the quantum hardware. Our best-performing model, combining DPO and GRPO, surpasses the strongest open-source baselines on the challenging Qiskit-HumanEval-hard benchmark.
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spellingShingle Quantum Verifiable Rewards for Post-Training Qiskit Code Assistant
Dupuis, Nicolas
Tiwari, Adarsh
Mroueh, Youssef
Kremer, David
Faro, Ismael
Cruz-Benito, Juan
Quantum Physics
Artificial Intelligence
Qiskit is an open-source quantum computing framework that allows users to design, simulate, and run quantum circuits on real quantum hardware. We explore post-training techniques for LLMs to assist in writing Qiskit code. We introduce quantum verification as an effective method for ensuring code quality and executability on quantum hardware. To support this, we developed a synthetic data pipeline that generates quantum problem-unit test pairs and used it to create preference data for aligning LLMs with DPO. Additionally, we trained models using GRPO, leveraging quantum-verifiable rewards provided by the quantum hardware. Our best-performing model, combining DPO and GRPO, surpasses the strongest open-source baselines on the challenging Qiskit-HumanEval-hard benchmark.
title Quantum Verifiable Rewards for Post-Training Qiskit Code Assistant
topic Quantum Physics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20907