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Failure-Guided Fuzzing for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Programs

Lei Zhang

Failure-guided local fuzzing drives better detection of non-convergent configurations in hybrid quantum-classical programs than random testing.

arxiv:2605.14219 v1 · 2026-05-14 · cs.SE · quant-ph

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failure-guided local fuzzing is the main driver of improvement over random testing, while concolic seed discovery provides additional benefits on VQE but is less stable on QAOA.

C2weakest assumption

The two specific VQE and QAOA instances in Qiskit are representative of general HQC programs and that the chosen execution budgets reflect realistic constraints for failure detection.

C3one line summary

Failure-guided local fuzzing around non-convergent seeds improves detection of faulty HQC configurations over random testing, with concolic seeding adding workload-dependent benefits on VQE versus QAOA.

References

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[1] The variational quantum eigensolver: a review of methods and best practices, 2022

[2] Quantum approximate optimization algo- rithm (qaoa), 2023

[3] Noisy intermediate-scale quantum algorithms, 2022

[4] Identifying flakiness in quantum programs, 2023

[5] Detecting flaky tests in quantum software: A dynamic approach, 2025

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arxiv: 2605.14219 · arxiv_version: 2605.14219v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.14219 · pith_short_12: RR7H6Y5SS7BP · pith_short_16: RR7H6Y5SS7BPZCLE · pith_short_8: RR7H6Y5S

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