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This study applies reinforcement learning to the co-design of stabilizer sets and decoders, demonstrating how generative models can optimize Bivariate Bicycle codes specifically for a fixed decoder architecture under depolarizing noise. By aligning code generation with decoding performance via Proximal Policy Optimisation, the work advances practical quantum error correction strategies essential for scalable fault-tolerant systems.
Designing Quantum Error Correcting Codes to fit decoders via Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.15754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a reinforcement learning (RL) approach to the co-design of stabilizer sets of Quantum Error Correcting Codes (QECCs) and decoders. We show how to produce a generative model that produces Bivariate Bicycle (BB) codes based on the choice of decoder. Specifically, we fix a decoder architecture and use Proximal Policy Optimisation (PPO) to train an agent over BB codes to maximise decoder performance under a depolarising channel noise model.
Abstract:We present a reinforcement learning (RL) approach to the co-design of stabilizer sets of Quantum Error Correcting Codes (QECCs) and decoders. We show how to produce a generative model that produces Bivariate Bicycle (BB) codes based on the choice of decoder. Specifically, we fix a decoder architecture and use Proximal Policy Optimisation (PPO) to train an agent over BB codes to maximise decoder performance under a depolarising channel noise model.
Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Information Theory (cs.IT)
arXiv:2608.15754 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2608.15754v1 [quant-ph] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.15754 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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