Quantum Circuit Pre-Synthesis: Learning Local Edits to Reduce $T$-count

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Autori principali: Bosco, Daniele Lizzio, Cincio, Lukasz, Serra, Giuseppe, Cerezo, M.
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author Bosco, Daniele Lizzio
Cincio, Lukasz
Serra, Giuseppe
Cerezo, M.
author_facet Bosco, Daniele Lizzio
Cincio, Lukasz
Serra, Giuseppe
Cerezo, M.
contents Compiling quantum circuits into Clifford+$T$ gates is a central task for fault-tolerant quantum computing using stabilizer codes. In the near term, $T$ gates will dominate the cost of fault tolerant implementations, and any reduction in the number of such expensive gates could mean the difference between being able to run a circuit or not. While exact synthesis is exponentially hard in the number of qubits, local synthesis approaches are commonly used to compile large circuits by decomposing them into substructures. However, composing local methods leads to suboptimal compilations in key metrics such as $T$-count or circuit depth, and their performance strongly depends on circuit representation. In this work, we address this challenge by proposing \textsc{Q-PreSyn}, a strategy that, given a set of local edits preserving circuit equivalence, uses a RL agent to identify effective sequences of such actions and thereby obtain circuit representations that yield a reduced $T$-count upon synthesis. Experimental results of our proposed strategy, applied on top of well-known synthesis algorithms, show up to a $20\%$ reduction in $T$-count on circuits with up to 25 qubits, without introducing any additional approximation error prior to synthesis.
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spellingShingle Quantum Circuit Pre-Synthesis: Learning Local Edits to Reduce $T$-count
Bosco, Daniele Lizzio
Cincio, Lukasz
Serra, Giuseppe
Cerezo, M.
Quantum Physics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Compiling quantum circuits into Clifford+$T$ gates is a central task for fault-tolerant quantum computing using stabilizer codes. In the near term, $T$ gates will dominate the cost of fault tolerant implementations, and any reduction in the number of such expensive gates could mean the difference between being able to run a circuit or not. While exact synthesis is exponentially hard in the number of qubits, local synthesis approaches are commonly used to compile large circuits by decomposing them into substructures. However, composing local methods leads to suboptimal compilations in key metrics such as $T$-count or circuit depth, and their performance strongly depends on circuit representation. In this work, we address this challenge by proposing \textsc{Q-PreSyn}, a strategy that, given a set of local edits preserving circuit equivalence, uses a RL agent to identify effective sequences of such actions and thereby obtain circuit representations that yield a reduced $T$-count upon synthesis. Experimental results of our proposed strategy, applied on top of well-known synthesis algorithms, show up to a $20\%$ reduction in $T$-count on circuits with up to 25 qubits, without introducing any additional approximation error prior to synthesis.
title Quantum Circuit Pre-Synthesis: Learning Local Edits to Reduce $T$-count
topic Quantum Physics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19738