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AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers

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113 points roboboffin | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 18:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dogma1138 ◴[20 Nov 24 19:28 UTC] No.42197261[source]▶
How can a classical system detect/correct errors in a quantum one? I thought all the error correction algos for quantum also relied on qbits e.g. Shor Code.
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1. summerlight ◴[20 Nov 24 19:42 UTC] No.42197383[source]▶
Quantum computing is not intractable and can be still simulated with a sufficient amount of time. This work used quantum simulator to generate data points then use it to train a transformer, which doesn't seem that different from other neural network use cases to optimize computation heavy problems.

The question would be whether this approach still works when it is scaled to thousands or even millions of qubits. The team is optimistic that that is the case, but we will see.