Physics-Informed Learning of Effective Error Processes from Limited Noisy Transmon Measurements for Robust QAOA Reliability

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00353v1
• Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 20:58:00 GMT
• Title: Physics-Informed Learning of Effective Error Processes from Limited Noisy Transmon Measurements for Robust QAOA Reliability
• Abstract summary: We present a physics-informed pipeline for learning effective quantum error processes from finite-shot measurements.<n>The learned representations are compact effective models: local affine Bloch channels for each qubit and, in the three-qubit extension, pairwise residuals that capture correlated errors.<n>Results support effective error-process learning as a hardware-aware route toward more reliable variational quantum algorithms.
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• Abstract: We present a physics-informed pipeline for learning effective quantum error processes from finite-shot measurements generated by hidden transmon-like simulators. Each physical transmon is modeled as an imperfect qutrit, while the learner only receives limited tomography data rather than microscopic Hamiltonian parameters. The learned representations are compact effective models: local affine Bloch channels for each qubit and, in the three-qubit extension, pairwise residuals that capture correlated errors. The learned error models are evaluated operationally by their ability to mitigate the cost landscape of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for MaxCut. A two-qubit proof of concept shows that a neural-network approach can infer a full 24-parameter effective channel from only 12 local tomography values and improve QAOA landscape reliability by about $20.4\times$. A scaled three-qubit study shows that local structured learning still strongly improves QAOA reliability: at $K=18$ local measurements, Ridge regression and the neural-network approach reduce QAOA mean absolute error from about $0.1775$ to $0.0269$ and $0.0306$, respectively. Pair probes substantially improve correlated-error identifiability, reducing pair-residual L2 error from about $1.731$ to $1.122$. These results support effective error-process learning as a hardware-aware route toward more reliable variational quantum algorithms.

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