A NEAT Quantum Error Decoder
arXiv:2101.08093 · doi:10.21468/SciPostPhys.11.1.005
Abstract
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.
arXiv comment10 pages, 7 figures
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