TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.11.1.005
TI  - A NEAT quantum error decoder
PY  - 2021/07/12
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.11.1.005
JF  - SciPost Physics
JA  - SciPost Phys.
VL  - 11
IS  - 1
SP  - 005
A1  - Théveniaut, Hugo
AU  - van Nieuwenburg, Everard
AB  - We investigate the use of the evolutionary NEAT algorithm for the optimization of a policy network that performs quantum error decoding on the toric code, with bitflip and depolarizing noise, one qubit at a time. We find that these NEAT-optimized network decoders have similar performance to previously reported machine-learning based decoders, but use roughly three to four orders of magnitude fewer parameters to do so.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhys.11.1.005,
	title={{A NEAT quantum error decoder}},
	author={Hugo Théveniaut and Evert van Nieuwenburg},
	journal={SciPost Phys.},
	volume={11},
	pages={005},
	year={2021},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhys.11.1.005},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.11.1.005},
}