Physics-Inspired Machine Learning for Quantum Error Mitigation

Physics-Inspired Machine Learning for Quantum Error Mitigation | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article Physics-Inspired Machine Learning for Quantum Error Mitigation He-Liang Huang, Xiao-Yue Xu, Xin Xue, Tianyu Chen, Chen Ding, and 4 more This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6647259/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Noise is a major obstacle in current quantum computing, and Machine Learning for Quantum Error Mitigation (ML-QEM) promises to address this challenge, enhancing computational accuracy while reducing the sampling overheads of standard QEM methods. Yet, existing models lack physical interpretability and rely heavily on extensive datasets, hindering their scalability in large-scale quantum circuits. To tackle these issues, we introduce the Neural Noise Accumulation Surrogate (NNAS), a physics-inspired neural network for ML-QEM that incorporates the structural characteristics of quantum noise accumulation within multi-layer circuits, endowing the model with physical interpretability. Experimental results demonstrate that NNAS outperforms current methods across a spectrum of metrics, including error mitigation capability, quantum resource consumption, and training dataset size. Notably, for deeper circuits where QEM methods typically struggle, NNAS achieves a remarkable reduction of over half in errors. NNAS also demands substantially fewer training data, reducing dataset reliance by at least an order of magnitude, due to its ability to rapidly capture noise accumulation patterns across circuit layers. This work pioneers the integration of quantum process-derived structural characteristics into neural network architectures, broadly enhancing QEM's performance and applicability, and establishes an integrative paradigm that extends to various quantum-inspired neural network architectures. Physical sciences/Physics/Quantum physics/Quantum information Physical sciences/Physics/Quantum physics/Qubits Full Text Additional Declarations There is NO Competing Interest. Supplementary Files sm.pdf Supplementary information: Physics-Inspired Machine Learning for Quantum Error Mitigation Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. 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