Papers › Stochastic search for approximate compilation of unitaries
Stochastic search for approximate compilation of unitaries
Ryan Shaffer
The archive published only this paper's code-link row. Authors, date and abstract are from arXiv's metadata (CC0), read from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12 where its title matched the archive's; the title is the archive's.
Compilation of unitaries into a sequence of physical quantum gates is a critical prerequisite for execution of quantum algorithms. This work introduces STOQ, a stochastic search protocol for approximate unitary compilation into a sequence of gates from an arbitrary gate alphabet. We demonstrate STOQ by comparing its performance to existing product-formula compilation techniques for time-evolution unitaries on system sizes up to eight qubits. The compilations generated by STOQ are less accurate than those from product-formula techniques, but they are similar in runtime and traverse significantly different paths in state space. We also use STOQ to generate compilations of randomly-generated unitaries, and we observe its ability to generate approximately-equivalent compilations of unitaries corresponding to shallow random circuits. Finally, we discuss the applicability of STOQ to tasks such as characterization of near-term quantum devices.
Code
Repository list and official/mentioned flags are the archive's, frozen 2025-07-28. Reachability, where shown, is from one Syntology probe window (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-18); repositories not probed show nothing. GitHub stars are not tracked.
Code Syntology ran Syntology
Not run by Syntology. Nothing on this page verifies that the listed code works.
Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28
No leaderboard rows for this paper in the archive.
Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections