AlphaClifford: Efficient Clifford Synthesis and Transpilation with Model-based RL
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arXiv:2608.18946v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clifford circuits play a foundational role in quantum computing, particularly due to their importance in quantum error correction and fault-tolerant logical synthesis. While these circuits can be efficiently simulated and represented as symplectic matrices, standard synthesis methods-such as the Aaronson-Gottesman algorithm-often yield sub-optimal circuits with excessively high gate counts. In this work, we introduce AlphaClifford, a model-based Reinforcement Learning framework powered by Monte Carlo Tree Search, designed to efficiently
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- arXiv:2608.18946v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clifford circuits play a foundational role in quantum computing, particularly due to their importance in quantum error correction and fault-tolerant logical synthesis.
- While these circuits can be efficiently simulated and represented as symplectic matrices, standard synthesis methods-such as the Aaronson-Gottesman algorithm-often yield sub-optimal circuits with excessively high gate counts.
- In this work, we introduce AlphaClifford, a model-based Reinforcement Learning framework powered by Monte Carlo Tree Search, designed to efficiently
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