Decoders for quantum error-correcting codes

Presentations

• Correcting for Y errors with the Bacon-Shor code

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Shwetlana Jha

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Shwetlana Jha

    • Yale University

  • Kaavya Sahay

    • Yale University

  • Harshvardhan Babla

    • Yale University

  • Steven Flammia

  • Shruti Puri

    • Yale University

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• Enhanced Decoding Against Coherent Errors in the Surface Code by Excited-State Encoding

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Stephen Yan

    • UC Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Stephen Yan

    • UC Santa Barbara

  • Yimu Bao

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Sagar Vijay

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Phases of decodability in the surface code with unitary errors

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Yimu Bao

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Yimu Bao

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Sajant Anand

    • Harvard University

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• Quantum Error Correction in Adversarial Regimes

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08943

  Presenters

  • Rahul Arvind

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Rahul Arvind

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Kishor Bharti

  • Dax Enshan Koh

  • Nikhil Bansal

  • Tobias Haug

    • Technology Innovation Institute

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• Enhancing Belief Propagation Decoders for Correlated Errors Using Cycle Error Characterization

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Pavithran Iyer

    • University of Waterloo

  Authors

  • Pavithran Iyer

    • University of Waterloo

  • Debankan Sannamoth

    • University of Waterloo

  • Joseph Emerson

  • Joseph Emerson

    • Perimeter Inst for Theo Phys

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• Fast correlated decoding of transversal logical algorithms

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13587

  Presenters

  • Chen Zhao

    • QuEra Computing Inc.

  Authors

  • Chen Zhao

    • QuEra Computing Inc.

  • Madelyn Cain

    • Oratomic

  • Dolev Bluvstein

    • Harvard University

  • Shouzhen Gu

    • Yale University

  • Nishad Maskara

    • Harvard University

  • Marcin Kalinowski

    • Harvard University

  • Alexandra Geim

    • Harvard University

  • Aleksander Kubica

    • Yale University

  • Mikhail Lukin

    • Harvard University

  • Hengyun Zhou

    • QuEra Computing and MIT

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• Syndrome Subgraph Algorithm for Distributed Decoding of Surface Codes

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Jan-Erik Wichmann

    • RIKEN Center for Computational Science

  Authors

  • Jan-Erik Wichmann

    • RIKEN Center for Computational Science

  • Kentaro Sano

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• Positional Symmetry Breaking in Decoders on Defective Surface Codes

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Huyen Do

    • Aalto University

  Authors

  • Huyen Do

    • Aalto University

  • Alexandru Paler

    • Aalto University

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• Hybrid global single-shot decoding for the 2D repetition code

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Jacob Hauser

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Jacob Hauser

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Ali Lavasani

  • Arpit Dua

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• Approximate maximum likelihood decoding with K minimum weight matchings

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06531

  Presenters

  • Mao Lin

    • Amazon.com, Inc.

  Authors

  • Mao Lin

    • Amazon.com, Inc.

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• Decoding quantum low density parity check codes with diffusion

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2509.22347

  Presenters

  • Zejun Liu

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Zejun Liu

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Bryan Clark

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Anqi Gong

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• Efficient Belief Propagation Decoder for Color Codes

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Neer Patel

  Authors

  • Neer Patel

  • Boqing Zhang

  • Siyuan Niu

    • University of Central Florida

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• Colour Codes Reach Surface Code Performance using Vibe Decoding

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Publication: Stergios Koutsioumpas, Tamas Noszko, Hasan Sayginel, Mark Webster, Joschka Roffe. "Colour Codes Reach Surface Code Performance using Vibe Decoding". Preprint arXiv:2508.15743. Uploaded: 2025-08-21. arXiv: 2508.15743. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.15743.

  Presenters

  • Joschka Roffe

    • University of Edinburgh

  Authors

  • Joschka Roffe

    • University of Edinburgh

  • Stergios Koutsioumpas

    • University of Edinburgh

  • Mark Webster

  • Hasan Sayginel

    • University College London

  • Tamas Noszko

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