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arxiv: 2411.16228 · v2 · submitted 2024-11-25 · 🪐 quant-ph

Soft information decoding with superconducting qubits

Maurice D. Hanisch , Bence Het\'enyi , James R. Wootton This is my paper

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keywords quantum error correctionsoft decodingsuperconducting qubitsrepetition codeanalog readoutfault tolerancethreshold
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Soft decoding using full analog qubit signals raises the error threshold by 25% and cuts error rates up to 30 times.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper demonstrates that standard decoders for quantum error correction throw away useful detail by reducing measurements to binary outcomes. Instead, feeding the complete analog readout signals from superconducting qubits into the decoder improves performance on repetition codes. This soft approach raises the threshold by a quarter and suppresses errors by as much as a factor of thirty. Even a single byte of extra data per measurement captures nearly the full gain, showing the method is practical for hardware. If the result holds, quantum devices can reach reliable operation with less demanding physical error rates.

Core claim

The authors establish that decoding repetition codes on superconducting hardware with soft information from analog measurements increases the logical error threshold by 25% and achieves up to 30 times lower error rates compared with conventional hard decoding; optimal results require only one byte of information per measurement, confirming that the richer signals can be exploited without prohibitive overhead in time-sensitive settings.

What carries the argument

Soft information decoding, which processes the full analog readout signals rather than binarized syndrome bits.

If this is right

  • Logical error thresholds rise by 25%, permitting fault tolerance at higher physical error rates.
  • Logical error rates drop by up to 30 times for fixed physical parameters.
  • A single byte per measurement reaches optimal performance, making the method suitable for real-time decoding.
  • The information-volume versus performance trade-off shows diminishing returns beyond modest data amounts.
  • The technique applies directly to existing superconducting hardware implementations of repetition codes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same soft-information approach could be tested on surface codes or other error-correcting families to check for comparable gains.
  • Readout hardware design may benefit from preserving more analog fidelity rather than forcing early binarization.
  • Classical soft-decision methods from communications theory may map directly onto quantum decoding pipelines.

Load-bearing premise

The analog readout signals contain usable extra information beyond binary outcomes that the decoder can exploit without introducing new errors.

What would settle it

Running the same repetition code experiments on the superconducting hardware and finding no threshold increase or error-rate reduction when soft information is included would falsify the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2411.16228 by Bence Het\'enyi, James R. Wootton, Maurice D. Hanisch.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Quantum circuit to implement a repetition code [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: IQ data for qubit 72 of the IBM Sherbrooke device prepared in the |0⟩ (blue) and |1⟩ (violet) state. The data shows two distinct Gaussian distributions corresponding to the qubit’s computational states. C. Soft information On most quantum devices, the measurement process culminates in a final continuous signal. We then dis￾cretize this analog signal into a binary value indicating the outcome of the measure… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Illustration of the measurement process model. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Timeline of measurement outcomes without resets, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Decoding graph for a repetition code of distance [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Vizualization of outliers in the IQ plane according [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Simulation results of the IBM Sherbrooke device, depicting the logical errors per round as a function of code distance for the soft and hard MPWM decoders for T = 50 rounds of stabilizer measurements. The Lambda factors Λ are fitted from the curves’ slopes in the logarithmic scale. as the error rates drop below 10−7 , necessitating more than tens of millions of shots to record a single logical error event.… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: IBM Sherbrooke device data depicting the logical errors per round against code distances for the hard and soft MPWM decoders for T = 50 rounds of stabilizer measure￾ments. The Lambda factors Λ are fitted from the curves’ slopes in logarithmic space. simulations using calibrated device error rates [38], we did not pursue this approach in our current study. There￾fore, to better understand the practical impl… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Simulated logical error probability ratio [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: IBM Sherbrooke device data depicting the logical error probability ratio P b L/P64 L for varying code distances as a function of the number of bits b used to truncate the soft flip probabilities. The states |+x⟩ and |−z⟩ are displayed in red and blue, respectively. Distances are limited to d = 33 for the X-basis and d = 27 for the Z-basis to maintain a sufficiently stable probability ratio. high error rat… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Average threshold improvement of soft and data [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Double measurement calibration circuit for es [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Example of subsampling for a repetition code [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Colormap representation of measurement out [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Histogram of soft flip probabilities for qubit 72 in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_18.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Quantum error correction promises a viable path to fault-tolerant computations, enabling exponential error suppression when the device's error rates remain below the protocol's threshold. This threshold, however, strongly depends on the classical method used to decode the syndrome measurements. These classical algorithms traditionally only interpret binary data, ignoring valuable information contained in the complete analog measurement data. In this work, we leverage this richer "soft information" to decode repetition code experiments implemented on superconducting hardware. We find that "soft decoding" can raise the threshold by 25%, yielding up to 30 times lower error rates. Analyzing the trade-off between information volume and decoding performance we show that a single byte of information per measurement suffices to reach optimal decoding. This underscores the effectiveness and practicality of soft decoding on hardware, including in time-sensitive contexts such as real-time decoding.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper experimentally demonstrates soft-information decoding of repetition codes on superconducting qubits, claiming that analog readout voltages (instead of binary syndromes) raise the logical error threshold by 25% and reduce error rates by up to 30×; it further reports that a single byte of soft information per measurement suffices to reach optimal performance and discusses practicality for real-time decoding.

Significance. If the central experimental claims hold after full methodological disclosure, the work would provide concrete evidence that soft decoding can meaningfully improve near-term quantum error correction on existing hardware without additional physical resources. The repetition-code results on superconducting devices constitute a direct, hardware-grounded test of the soft-information hypothesis.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract, §3] Abstract and §3 (results): the reported 25% threshold increase and 30× error reduction are stated without reference to the precise decoder algorithm, the likelihood model mapping analog voltages to soft inputs, the data-exclusion criteria, the number of experimental shots, or the statistical procedure used to extract thresholds and error bars. These omissions prevent assessment of whether the gains arise from genuine additional information or from unaccounted biases.
  2. [§4, §5] §4 (methods) and §5 (analysis): the manuscript does not describe how the soft-information decoder was trained or validated, nor does it present controls that would distinguish usable analog information from readout noise already captured by the binary assignment or from state-dependent relaxation during measurement. Without these controls the repetition-code data alone cannot rule out the alternative explanations listed in the stress-test note.
  3. [Figure 4, Table 2] Figure 4 / Table 2 (trade-off analysis): the claim that one byte per measurement reaches optimal performance requires an explicit comparison of mutual information or log-likelihood ratios between the full analog trace and the one-byte quantization; the current presentation leaves open whether the byte truncation introduces a measurable performance gap relative to the continuous signal.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§2] Notation for the soft-input likelihood function should be defined once in §2 and used consistently; several figures label axes with inconsistent abbreviations.
  2. [Figure 3] The caption of Figure 3 should state the total number of experimental realizations and the fitting procedure used for the logical-error curves.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed report. The comments correctly identify several areas where additional methodological transparency is needed to allow independent assessment of the claims. We address each point below and will incorporate the requested clarifications in a revised manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract, §3] Abstract and §3 (results): the reported 25% threshold increase and 30× error reduction are stated without reference to the precise decoder algorithm, the likelihood model mapping analog voltages to soft inputs, the data-exclusion criteria, the number of experimental shots, or the statistical procedure used to extract thresholds and error bars. These omissions prevent assessment of whether the gains arise from genuine additional information or from unaccounted biases.

    Authors: We agree that these details are insufficiently explicit in the current text. The revised manuscript will expand §3 (and the abstract where space permits) to specify: the exact soft decoder (belief propagation with soft inputs), the likelihood model (per-qubit Gaussian mixture fits to calibration data), data-exclusion rules (shots flagged by simultaneous relaxation or readout fidelity checks), total shots per point (approximately 10^5–10^6), and the bootstrap procedure used for threshold and error-bar extraction. These additions will make clear that the reported gains are attributable to the analog information. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4, §5] §4 (methods) and §5 (analysis): the manuscript does not describe how the soft-information decoder was trained or validated, nor does it present controls that would distinguish usable analog information from readout noise already captured by the binary assignment or from state-dependent relaxation during measurement. Without these controls the repetition-code data alone cannot rule out the alternative explanations listed in the stress-test note.

    Authors: We accept that the training and validation procedures, as well as explicit controls, are not described. The revision will add: (i) a description of supervised training on separate calibration datasets and cross-validation, and (ii) control experiments that compare soft decoding against binary decoding augmented with calibrated readout-noise and relaxation models. Each alternative explanation raised in the stress-test note will be addressed quantitatively in the new §5 text. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Figure 4, Table 2] Figure 4 / Table 2 (trade-off analysis): the claim that one byte per measurement reaches optimal performance requires an explicit comparison of mutual information or log-likelihood ratios between the full analog trace and the one-byte quantization; the current presentation leaves open whether the byte truncation introduces a measurable performance gap relative to the continuous signal.

    Authors: We will revise Figure 4 and Table 2 to include side-by-side mutual-information and log-likelihood-ratio comparisons between the full-resolution analog traces and the 8-bit quantized versions. These metrics will be computed on the same experimental dataset and will quantify any residual information loss, thereby substantiating the claim that one byte is near-optimal. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical hardware results with no self-referential derivation

full rationale

The paper reports direct experimental measurements on superconducting hardware implementing repetition codes, comparing binary vs. soft decoding performance. The claimed 25% threshold improvement and error-rate reductions are presented as observed outcomes from the analog readout data, without any equations or steps that define a quantity in terms of itself, rename a fit as a prediction, or reduce the central result to a self-citation chain. The work is self-contained as an experimental demonstration; no load-bearing mathematical derivation exists that could be circular by construction.

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