Transpiler optimization game
HuangJunye opened this issue · 5 comments
Abstract
Make a citizen science game to optimize the transpiling process, similar to fold.it in principle.
Description
Current quantum hardware has limited connectivity. The quantum circuit composed in Qiskit needs to be translated and optimised in order to be run in the actual hardware. The software tool that does this kind of work is called "transpiler". You can read more about transpiler in Qiskit textbook
This problem was the Qiskit Developer Challenge for IBM Q Award 2018. Here the idea is not to make a better transpiler by explicit programming, but rather to design a puzzle game based on quantum circuits. The goal is to minimise the cost: single qubit gate is 1, two-bit gate is 10, etc. (can fine tune corresponding to actual experimental gate fidelity, similar to the benchmarking test for transpilers) This game can be then played by anyone in the world. The statistics of playing will give new insights for designing better transpiler in the future.
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A playable game
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