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arxiv: 2605.21795 · v1 · pith:534LCC64new · submitted 2026-05-20 · 🪐 quant-ph

ATHENA: A Compiler For Optimized Scheduling In Distributed Quantum Computers

Won Joon Yun (1) , Dhilan Nag (1) , Sneha Ballabh (1) , Jiapeng Zhao (2) , Eneet Kaur (2) , Poulami Das (1) ((1) The University of Texas at Austin (2) Cisco Quantum Lab) This is my paper

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ATHENA compiler reduces teleportations by 34% on average and latency by 2x in distributed quantum computers

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Distributed quantum computers link smaller chips through photonic connections but pay high costs in time and errors for teleporting qubits to perform non-local CNOT gates. Prior compilers optimize teleportations only within current blocks of overlapping operations, without checking how those choices affect later blocks or moving future work earlier when resources allow. ATHENA introduces utility-driven lookahead that restricts attention to future blocks sharing qubits and keeps several candidate schedules open instead of committing early, plus early scheduling of operations whenever EPR pairs are available. These changes produce the reported gains in fewer teleportations and lower latency across the evaluated circuits. A reader would care because the techniques make modular quantum hardware more efficient for running programs that exceed single-chip limits.

Core claim

ATHENA addresses the lack of cross-block lookahead and delayed scheduling in existing DQC compilers by deploying UMS, which considers only future blocks that share qubits with the current one and maintains multiple candidate schedules to avoid early suboptimal commitments, together with EES, which advances future operations and their required teleportations as soon as EPR capacity exists. On the tested benchmarks this produces 34% fewer teleportations on average and up to 65% in the best case, together with 2x lower latency on average and up to 2.9x.

What carries the argument

Utility-driven Lookahead with Multi-Candidate Block Scheduling (UMS) that limits lookahead to overlapping-qubit blocks and retains multiple schedules, paired with EPR-Capacity-Aware Early Scheduling (EES) that performs forward relocation when entanglement resources are free.

Load-bearing premise

The selected quantum program benchmarks and the assumed 4.3-7.7x slowdown for non-local CNOTs will continue to represent actual future workloads and hardware cost ratios.

What would settle it

Running ATHENA and prior compilers on a fresh set of quantum circuits whose non-local operation costs differ from the modeled range and checking whether the average reductions in teleportation count and latency remain at the reported levels.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.21795 by Dhilan Nag (1), Eneet Kaur (2), Jiapeng Zhao (2), Poulami Das (1) ((1) The University of Texas at Austin (2) Cisco Quantum Lab), Sneha Ballabh (1), Won Joon Yun (1).

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Current compilers have limited lookahead between blocks and commit to the schedule with fewest teleportations for each block while discarding the rest. They also defer scheduling future gates until preceding blocks complete. (b) Athena considers useful future blocks in its lookahead window and retains multiple candidate schedules. It also executes future operations and their teleportation early if EPR … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: DQC compilation for (a) first two blocks on (b) a 3-chip DQC using the state-of-the-art compiler QuComm [23]. QuComm groups first five CNOTs into two blocks, 𝐵1 and 𝐵2. (c) It selects 𝑆2 and relocates qubits 0 and 4 to execute 𝐵1, exhausting its EPR resources. (d) To free EPRs, QuComm relocates qubit 0 from 𝑆2 to 𝑆1. (e) It then relocates qubit 1 to 𝑆2 for 𝐵2. and program latencies by 34% and 2× on average… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: (a) An example circuit with blocks 𝐵1 and 𝐵2. (b) Dependency for CNOT 𝐶 is resolved after executing CNOT 𝐴. But QuComm does not schedule it until it reaches 𝐵2. The teleportation required is also scheduled only when the compiler realizes that it is necessary to schedule CNOT 𝐶. (c) In contrast, Athena relocates qubit 2 and schedules CNOT 𝐶 as early as possible. This improves RELOCATE and CNOT concurrency a… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: QuComm selects Schedule-A for 𝐵1 because it costs fewer teleportations (illustrated by the box width in this Figure) than Schedule-B. But the qubit relocations from Schedule-A eventually cost more teleportations in the fu￾ture block 𝐵10. In contrast, Athena also retains Schedule-B and continues to schedule subsequent blocks. This allows Athena to eventually arrive at a more optimized executable for block 𝐵… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Overview of Athena. It takes as input the program and initial qubit mapping and mainly focuses on instruction scheduling. This involves block formation (grouping operations into instruction blocks), an utility-driven lookahead-based scheduling involving multiple candidates, and optimizing teleportations via EPR-capacity-aware early relocate scheduling. 4 Our Proposal: Athena We propose Athena that reduces … view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Illustration of utility-driven lookahead. Block 𝐵4 has an overlapping qubit with current block𝐶 and has utility in its lookahead but 𝐵2 and 𝐵3 do not. Scheduling group 𝐺 is the set of the current block and its lookahead window. the corresponding schedule, and EPR capacity distributions. Athena schedules the current block 𝐶 in instruction order. Let 𝑔 be the next unscheduled gate. If 𝑔 is a local CNOT, it i… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Nodes are added to the solution tree for each non￾local gate scheduled depending on relocation paths (here, each non-local CNOT adds two paths). Once the tree exceeds 𝑤 solutions, it is pruned to only retain the top-𝑤 candidates. 4.4 EPR-Capacity-Aware Early Scheduling (EES) Athena executes future gates and teleportations early with￾out waiting until current block completes. EES enables two capabilities: (… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: (a) EES finds the earliest timestamp 𝑇𝑒 a future instruction 𝑒 can execute. It shifts 𝑒 from its timestamp 𝑇𝑓 to an earlier one, 𝑇𝑖 , if it does not add relocations. (b) EES stops shifting 𝑒 earlier than 𝑇𝑖 if a chip reaches EPR capacity. We summarize the Athena algorithm in Appendix C. 5 Evaluation Methodology This section describes our evaluation methodology. 5.1 Benchmarks We evaluate Athena using a wi… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: shows cumulative teleportation costs as scheduling proceeds in QuComm and Athena for a 240-qubit Shor’s algorithm on a 3×3 DQC. Blocks marked by A denote cases where Athena selects a different chip to execute the block than QuComm. These selections eventually reduce teleporta￾tions in subsequent block B . A different scheduling for block C reduces teleportations for all blocks beyond Block-23 [PITH_FULL_… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: shows the schedule of a 240-qubit QAOA-3reg pro￾gram on a 3 × 3 DQC. The schedule from QuComm takes 443 ms and has a RELOCATE concurrency of only 0.85 RE￾LOCATE/ms. Athena (without EES) reduces the latency to 348 ms with a RELOCATE concurrency of 0.83 RELO￾CATE/ms. With EES, Athena reduces latency to 160 ms and achieves an even higher RELOCATE concurrency of 1.81 RE￾LOCATE/ms. Also, Athena (without EES) i… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Latency of a 240-qubit QAOA-FC program on a 3×3 DQC with increasing fraction of hiding EPR generation latency. Athena consistently outperforms QuComm. 6.7 Impact on Quantum Error Correction (QEC) Athena mainly focuses on low-level scheduling on DQCs. Fault-tolerant quantum computers map program variables into logical qubits encoded in quantum error correction (QEC) codes and translate instructions into lo… view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Overview of EPR pair generation. For example, in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: shows a RELOCATE. Qubit 0 moves within the interaction range of qubit 𝑎 while others are kept at a dis￾tance (to prevent unwanted CNOTs) and CNOT 0, 𝑎 is exe￾cuted. State teleportation is used during which qubits 𝑎 and 𝑏 collapse after measurement. CNOT 0, 1 is performed by bringing qubit 1 within interaction range of qubit 0 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_18.png] view at source ↗
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: describes the details of a Re-CNOT. Qubit 0 is moved within the interaction range of qubit 𝑎 and a CNOT 0, 𝑎 is executed. Gate teleportation is used which measures (b) 0 moves to interact with a (d) 1 moves to interact with 0 b a 0 1 (a) Initial atom positions Compute Communication Cavity EPR EPR0 0 a b 1 (c) State of 0 relocated CNOT EPR (collapsed post measure) 0 a b 1 b a 0 1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/… view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Atom movements for EPR pair generation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Fidelity contributions for a 32-qubit QAOA 3- regular program on a 2×2 DQC. The fidelity from single￾qubit gates, atom transfers, and local CNOTs remain iden￾tical in both QuComm and Athena, but Athena improves teleportation fidelity and reduces decoherence. E Impact of EES on Latency EES aims to schedule future CNOTs and any teleportations if EPR capacity is available as early as possible [PITH_FULL_IMA… view at source ↗
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Distributed Quantum Computers (DQCs) enable large system sizes by connecting smaller chips via photonic interconnects. DQCs use teleportation to relocate qubits and execute CNOTs between qubits on different chips. However, non-local CNOTs are 4.3-7.7$\times$ slower and 4$\times$ more error-prone than local CNOTs within a chip, which degrades program fidelities. Existing compilers group CNOTs with overlapping qubits into blocks and collectively optimize teleportations for each block. However, block-level scheduling has two key drawbacks. First, it lacks lookahead ability across blocks because it selects the optimal schedule for one block before proceeding to the next. As a result, it cannot assess the impact of a teleportation on future blocks. Our studies show that naively expanding the lookahead window to include subsequent blocks does not address this issue. Second, existing approaches do not schedule future block operations or the teleportations they require until preceding blocks are fully scheduled, introducing delay and latency overheads. We propose ATHENA, a DQC compiler that addresses these limitations using two key insights: Utility-driven Lookahead with Multi-Candidate Block Scheduling (UMS) and EPR-Capacity-Aware Early Scheduling (EES). UMS schedules a block by considering only useful future blocks in its lookahead window. A future block has utility if it shares overlapping qubits with the current block being scheduled. UMS also maintains multiple schedules during compilation, allowing it to defer commitment to globally sub-optimal schedules early in the compilation process. EES enables ATHENA to schedule future operations and their relocations early when EPR resources are available. Our evaluations show that ATHENA reduces teleportations by 34% on average and up to 65%, and reduces latency by 2$\times$ on average and up to 2.9$\times$ compared to the state-of-the-art.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces ATHENA, a compiler for distributed quantum computers (DQCs) that uses two techniques—Utility-driven Lookahead with Multi-Candidate Block Scheduling (UMS) and EPR-Capacity-Aware Early Scheduling (EES)—to overcome limitations in existing block-level schedulers. Existing methods lack cross-block lookahead and delay future operations until prior blocks are scheduled; ATHENA selects only utility-bearing future blocks (those sharing qubits) for lookahead, maintains multiple candidate schedules, and performs early scheduling of operations and teleportations when EPR resources are free. The central claim is that these changes yield 34% average (up to 65%) fewer teleportations and 2× average (up to 2.9×) lower latency versus the state of the art under non-local CNOT costs of 4.3–7.7×.

Significance. If the reported gains are robust, ATHENA would constitute a practical improvement for DQC compilation by reducing the dominant overhead of photonic interconnects. The explicit separation of utility-based lookahead from naïve window expansion and the addition of early EPR-aware scheduling are concrete, implementable ideas that could be adopted by other compilers.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Evaluation): the headline quantitative claims (34% avg. teleportation reduction, 2× latency) are presented without any description of the benchmark suite, baseline implementations, number of runs, or error bars. Because the central contribution is an empirical performance improvement, the absence of these details makes it impossible to assess whether the deltas are sensitive to post-hoc benchmark selection or simulation assumptions.
  2. [§3.2 and §4] §3.2 (UMS description) and §4: the manuscript states that simply widening the lookahead window fails to help, yet provides no quantitative sensitivity sweep on the non-local CNOT slowdown factor. If the true hardware ratio falls below ~4×, the utility definition and multi-candidate deferral may no longer produce net savings; this parameter is load-bearing for the claimed advantage over prior block schedulers.
  3. [§4] §4 (Benchmark and cost-model discussion): the evaluation relies on a fixed set of quantum programs and the 4.3–7.7× cost ratio without testing additional circuit families or varying the ratio. The weakest assumption identified in the stress-test note is therefore unaddressed, limiting that the reported 34%/2× gains will generalize to future workloads or devices.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figures in §4] Figure captions and axis labels in the evaluation figures should explicitly state the cost model and benchmark names so that readers can reproduce the comparison without consulting the text.
  2. [§1 and §3] The acronym definitions for UMS and EES appear only in the abstract; they should be restated on first use in the body.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. The comments focus on strengthening the evaluation section, which we agree is central to demonstrating the practical value of ATHENA. We provide point-by-point responses below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to improve transparency and robustness.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Evaluation): the headline quantitative claims (34% avg. teleportation reduction, 2× latency) are presented without any description of the benchmark suite, baseline implementations, number of runs, or error bars. Because the central contribution is an empirical performance improvement, the absence of these details makes it impossible to assess whether the deltas are sensitive to post-hoc benchmark selection or simulation assumptions.

    Authors: We agree that additional methodological details are necessary to allow readers to evaluate the reliability of the reported gains. In the revised manuscript, we will expand both the abstract and Section 4 to explicitly describe the benchmark suite (including the specific quantum circuits used), the implementation details of the baseline block-based scheduler for comparison, the number of simulation runs performed, and error bars or variance measures on the average improvements. These changes will clarify that the 34% teleportation reduction and 2× latency results are based on a systematic evaluation rather than selective reporting. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2 and §4] §3.2 (UMS description) and §4: the manuscript states that simply widening the lookahead window fails to help, yet provides no quantitative sensitivity sweep on the non-local CNOT slowdown factor. If the true hardware ratio falls below ~4×, the utility definition and multi-candidate deferral may no longer produce net savings; this parameter is load-bearing for the claimed advantage over prior block schedulers.

    Authors: The referee is correct that a quantitative sensitivity analysis would strengthen the justification for the utility-driven lookahead in UMS. While our internal studies indicated that naive window expansion does not yield benefits, we will add a new sensitivity study in the revised Section 4. This will include plots showing teleportation and latency improvements across a range of non-local CNOT slowdown factors (e.g., 2× to 10×), demonstrating that the multi-candidate and utility-based approach remains advantageous even at lower ratios than the 4.3–7.7× range used in the main results. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4] §4 (Benchmark and cost-model discussion): the evaluation relies on a fixed set of quantum programs and the 4.3–7.7× cost ratio without testing additional circuit families or varying the ratio. The weakest assumption identified in the stress-test note is therefore unaddressed, limiting that the reported 34%/2× gains will generalize to future workloads or devices.

    Authors: We acknowledge that broader testing would increase confidence in generalization. The current evaluation uses a representative set of quantum programs and the cited cost range derived from photonic interconnect literature, and the stress-test note already explores some variations. In the revision, we will extend Section 4 with results on additional circuit families and explicit sweeps over a wider cost-ratio range. This will directly address concerns about workload and device variability while maintaining the core claims. revision: yes

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No significant circularity; performance claims rest on direct empirical comparisons.

full rationale

The paper introduces ATHENA via two new algorithmic components (UMS for utility-driven lookahead with multi-candidate scheduling and EES for early EPR-aware scheduling). These are presented as novel heuristics that address stated limitations of prior block-level schedulers. The headline results (34% average teleportation reduction, 2× latency improvement) are obtained from simulation runs on chosen benchmarks against existing compilers, with no equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations that reduce the reported deltas to the inputs by construction. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained and externally falsifiable via independent re-implementation of the scheduling logic.

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Based on abstract only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The work appears to rest on standard assumptions about quantum hardware costs and benchmark representativeness rather than new postulates.

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