用图神经网络融合硬件信息,提升量子纠错的可扩展性。
Scalable Quantum Error Mitigation with Physically Informed Graph Neural Networks

- 将量子电路建模为带属性的图,节点和边编码噪声与耦合参数。
- 在10~16量子比特上表现优于传统方法,零样本迁移误差更低。
- 适合追求高可扩展性的量子计算研究者使用。
量子误差缓解(QEM)为在噪声中等规模量子(NISQ)设备上可靠估算可观测量提供了实用路径。传统QEM方法如零噪声外推(ZNE)和克莱夫数据回归(CDR)依赖噪声缩放或全局回归,其性能受系统自由度指数增长的限制。本文构建了图增强缓解(GEM)框架,将物理信息融入模型表示:量子电路被编码为属性图,硬件级物理信息映射为节点与边特征——节点编码局部噪声参数(如 $T_1$、$T_2$、读出误差),边编码双量子比特门错误等耦合信息。通过图神经网络建模误差沿物理耦合结构的传播,并捕捉部分跨量子比特的非局域相关性。采用双分支仿射校正以保持物理约束一致性。在超导量子处理器上对10量子比特和16量子比特随机电路的实验表明,GEM在小规模下精度接近CDR,且在零样本迁移至更大系统时展现出更低的平均绝对误差与更好稳定性。传统方法在低维情形仍有效,但随自由度增加可靠性下降。相比之下,GEM利用局部物理结构实现更优可扩展性与泛化能力,同时保留整体误差传播模式。本工作为NISQ设备提供了一种实用的可扩展量子误差缓解方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Quantum error mitigation (QEM) provides a practical route for estimating reliable observables on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Traditional QEM strategies, including zero-noise extrapolation (ZNE) and Clifford data regression (CDR), rely on noise scaling or global regression, and their performance is constrained by the exponential growth of the system degrees of freedom. We construct a graph-enhanced mitigation (GEM) framework, which incorporates physical information into the model representation. In this work, quantum circuits are encoded as attributed graphs. Hardware-level physical information is mapped to node and edge features: local noise parameters such as calibration parameters $T_1$, $T_2$, and readout errors are encoded at nodes, while coupling-related information such as two-qubit gate errors is encoded as edge features. Graph neural networks are used to model how errors propagate along the physical coupling structure and build up into non-local correlations. This allows the model to capture local interactions and part of the resulting non-local correlations across qubits. A dual-branch affine correction is applied to maintain consistency with physical constraints. Experiments on 10-qubit and 16-qubit random circuits executed on superconducting quantum processors show that GEM provides a level of accuracy comparable to CDR at small scales, while yielding lower mean absolute error and improved stability in zero-shot transfer to larger systems. Results of the traditional QEM strategy indicate that global regression methods remain effective in low-dimensional settings but become less reliable as system degrees of freedom grow. In contrast, GEM makes use of local physical structures to show better scalability and generalization, while preserving the overall error propagation patterns. This work provides a practical scalable approach to QEM for NISQ devices.
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