Per-Phase Fidelity Attribution for Quantum Compilers using HBR Decomposition

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Autori principali: Pati, Chandrachud, Simmhan, Yogesh
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author Pati, Chandrachud
Simmhan, Yogesh
author_facet Pati, Chandrachud
Simmhan, Yogesh
contents Quantum compilers sit between an algorithm's theoretical promise and what executes on physical hardware. Existing benchmarks report aggregate post-transpilation metrics but cannot attribute where fidelity is lost within the compilation pipeline. We present HBR decomposition, a per-phase fidelity attribution model that quantifies relative fidelity loss across High-level structural decomposition (H), Basis translation (B), and Routing (R). We evaluate three production SDKs (Qiskit, PennyLane, TKET) across eight algorithms on two backend topologies: IBM Heron (heavy-hex) and IonQ Forte (all-to-all). The dominant compiler bottleneck is strongly circuit-class dependent: Routing accounts for up to 60% of relative fidelity loss in search-class circuits, while synthesis dominates Hamiltonian simulation workloads. Early synthesis choices amplify or compress downstream routing overhead depending on circuit connectivity. SDK rankings at diagnostic optimization level (opt=0) reverse at production levels (opt=2) for deep circuits, showing that stagewise diagnostics and production results answer different questions. HBR correctly predicts SDK rank ordering across noisy simulations (8 circuits x 3 SDKs x 2 tiers) and real IBM Fez hardware executions, revealing stage-specific bottlenecks that are not observable through aggregate compiler benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Per-Phase Fidelity Attribution for Quantum Compilers using HBR Decomposition
Pati, Chandrachud
Simmhan, Yogesh
Emerging Technologies
Quantum compilers sit between an algorithm's theoretical promise and what executes on physical hardware. Existing benchmarks report aggregate post-transpilation metrics but cannot attribute where fidelity is lost within the compilation pipeline. We present HBR decomposition, a per-phase fidelity attribution model that quantifies relative fidelity loss across High-level structural decomposition (H), Basis translation (B), and Routing (R). We evaluate three production SDKs (Qiskit, PennyLane, TKET) across eight algorithms on two backend topologies: IBM Heron (heavy-hex) and IonQ Forte (all-to-all). The dominant compiler bottleneck is strongly circuit-class dependent: Routing accounts for up to 60% of relative fidelity loss in search-class circuits, while synthesis dominates Hamiltonian simulation workloads. Early synthesis choices amplify or compress downstream routing overhead depending on circuit connectivity. SDK rankings at diagnostic optimization level (opt=0) reverse at production levels (opt=2) for deep circuits, showing that stagewise diagnostics and production results answer different questions. HBR correctly predicts SDK rank ordering across noisy simulations (8 circuits x 3 SDKs x 2 tiers) and real IBM Fez hardware executions, revealing stage-specific bottlenecks that are not observable through aggregate compiler benchmarks.
title Per-Phase Fidelity Attribution for Quantum Compilers using HBR Decomposition
topic Emerging Technologies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07876