Adaptive mitigation of time-varying quantum noise
This addresses the reliability and reproducibility issues in quantum computing for researchers and engineers, representing an incremental improvement over existing mitigation techniques.
The paper tackles the problem of non-stationary noise channels in quantum computers by proposing a Bayesian inference-based adaptive algorithm that learns and mitigates quantum noise in response to changing conditions. The results show that Bayesian probabilistic error cancellation outperforms non-adaptive approaches by a factor of 4.5x in Hellinger distance from the ideal distribution.
Current quantum computers suffer from non-stationary noise channels with high error rates, which undermines their reliability and reproducibility. We propose a Bayesian inference-based adaptive algorithm that can learn and mitigate quantum noise in response to changing channel conditions. Our study emphasizes the need for dynamic inference of critical channel parameters to improve program accuracy. We use the Dirichlet distribution to model the stochasticity of the Pauli channel. This allows us to perform Bayesian inference, which can improve the performance of probabilistic error cancellation (PEC) under time-varying noise. Our work demonstrates the importance of characterizing and mitigating temporal variations in quantum noise, which is crucial for developing more accurate and reliable quantum technologies. Our results show that Bayesian PEC can outperform non-adaptive approaches by a factor of 4.5x when measured using Hellinger distance from the ideal distribution.