QiboAgent: a practitioner's guideline to open source assistants for Quantum Computing code development

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Autori principali: Esposito, Lorenzo, Papaluca, Andrea, Carrazza, Stefano
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Esposito, Lorenzo
Papaluca, Andrea
Carrazza, Stefano
author_facet Esposito, Lorenzo
Papaluca, Andrea
Carrazza, Stefano
contents We introduce QiboAgent, a reference implementation designed to serve as a practitioner's guideline for developing specialized coding assistants in Quantum Computing middleware. Addressing the limitations in scientific software development of general-purpose proprietary models, we explore how lightweight, open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) provided with a custom workflow architecture compare. In detail, we experiment with two complementary paradigms: a Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline for high-precision information retrieval, and an autonomous agentic workflow for complex software engineering tasks. We observe that this hybrid approach significantly reduces hallucination rates in code generation compared to a proprietary baseline, achieving a peak accuracy of 90.2% with relatively small open-source models of size up to 30B parameters. Furthermore, the agentic framework exhibits advanced coding capabilities, automating the resolution of maintenance issues and new features requests, or by prototyping larger-scale refactors of the codebase, such as producing a compiled Rust module with bindings of an original pure python package, Qibo in our case. The LLM workflows used for our analysis are integrated into a user interface and a Model Context Protocol server, providing an accessible tool for Qibo developers.
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spellingShingle QiboAgent: a practitioner's guideline to open source assistants for Quantum Computing code development
Esposito, Lorenzo
Papaluca, Andrea
Carrazza, Stefano
Quantum Physics
We introduce QiboAgent, a reference implementation designed to serve as a practitioner's guideline for developing specialized coding assistants in Quantum Computing middleware. Addressing the limitations in scientific software development of general-purpose proprietary models, we explore how lightweight, open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) provided with a custom workflow architecture compare. In detail, we experiment with two complementary paradigms: a Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline for high-precision information retrieval, and an autonomous agentic workflow for complex software engineering tasks. We observe that this hybrid approach significantly reduces hallucination rates in code generation compared to a proprietary baseline, achieving a peak accuracy of 90.2% with relatively small open-source models of size up to 30B parameters. Furthermore, the agentic framework exhibits advanced coding capabilities, automating the resolution of maintenance issues and new features requests, or by prototyping larger-scale refactors of the codebase, such as producing a compiled Rust module with bindings of an original pure python package, Qibo in our case. The LLM workflows used for our analysis are integrated into a user interface and a Model Context Protocol server, providing an accessible tool for Qibo developers.
title QiboAgent: a practitioner's guideline to open source assistants for Quantum Computing code development
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15538