NEWS    MERL Presents Five Papers at IEEE Quantum Week 2026

Date released: September 17, 2026

  •  NEWS    MERL Presents Five Papers at IEEE Quantum Week 2026
  • Date:

    September 13, 2026 - September 18, 2026

  • Where:

    Toronto, Canada

  • Description:

    MERL is pleased to announce that five papers have been accepted to the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), also known as IEEE Quantum Week 2026, held September 13–18, 2026, in Toronto, Canada.

    The papers highlight MERL’s recent advances in quantum computing, spanning hardware-efficient quantum state preparation, quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) code design, graph-cover-based code construction, machine-learning-assisted code search, and reinforcement-learning-guided quantum error correction. Together, these works address important challenges toward more efficient and reliable quantum computing systems.

    The five papers are:
    - “Near-Lower-Bound Approximate Quantum State Preparation with Hardware-Efficient Circuits” — Toshiaki Koike-Akino (TR2026-131)
    - “Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Multi-Branch Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes” — Vahid Nourozi, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, and David Mitchell (TR2026-130)
    - “Q-Learning Base Search Voltage-Labeled Covers for Weight-Six Bivariate-Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes” — Vahid Nourozi, David Mitchell, and Toshiaki Koike-Akino (TR2026-132)
    - “Collision-Voltage Design of Directional Covers for Bivariate Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes” — Vahid Nourozi, David Mitchell, and Toshiaki Koike-Akino (TR2026-133)
    - “Base-Preserving APM/Voltage Lifts of Bivariate Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes” — Vahid Nourozi, David Mitchell, and Toshiaki Koike-Akino (TR2026-129)

  • External Link:

    https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2026/

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  • Research Areas:

    Applied Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Optimization, Signal Processing

    •  Nourozi, V., Mitchell, D., Koike-Akino, T., "Net-Voltage Screening of Bivariate-Bicycle Tanner-Graph Covers", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-133 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep4,
      • author = {Nourozi, Vahid and Mitchell, David and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
      • title = {{Net-Voltage Screening of Bivariate-Bicycle Tanner-Graph Covers}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = sep,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-133}
      • }
    •  Nourozi, V., Mitchell, D., Koike-Akino, T., "Q-Learning Base Search Voltage-Labeled Covers for Weight-Six Bivariate-Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-132 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep3,
      • author = {Nourozi, Vahid and Mitchell, David and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
      • title = {{Q-Learning Base Search Voltage-Labeled Covers for Weight-Six Bivariate-Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = sep,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-132}
      • }
    •  Koike-Akino, T., "Near-Lower-Bound Approximate Quantum State Preparation with Hardware-Efficient Circuits", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-131 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2026sep2,
      • author = {Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
      • title = {{Near-Lower-Bound Approximate Quantum State Preparation with Hardware-Efficient Circuits}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = sep,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-131}
      • }
    •  Nourozi, V., Koike-Akino, T., Mitchell, D., "Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Multi-Branch Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-130 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep2,
      • author = {Nourozi, Vahid and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Mitchell, David},
      • title = {{Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Multi-Branch Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = sep,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-130}
      • }
    •  Nourozi, V., Mitchell, D., Koike-Akino, T., "Base-Preserving APM/Voltage Lifts of Bivariate Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-129 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep,
      • author = {Nourozi, Vahid and Mitchell, David and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
      • title = {{Base-Preserving APM/Voltage Lifts of Bivariate Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = sep,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-129}
      • }