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Linghui Chen

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Experiment-compatible measurement--feedback quantum state preparation with reinforcement learning

Ground-state preparation is a critical task in quantum simulation and quantum computing, as it enables the study of correlated phases and the generation of entangled resource states. While measurement--feedback control has emerged as a promising route to state preparation, existing schemes either rely on handcrafted, task-specific policies or are designed using full quantum-state information that is unavailable in real experiments and becomes impractical for large many-body systems. Here we develop an adaptive measurement--feedback protocol based on reinforcement learning under partial observability. The controller uses only the history of experimentally accessible measurement outcomes to choose both the measurement operator and the feedback action in real time. To make training compatible with experiments, we introduce a stochastic terminal reward built from one-shot measurements of randomly sampled Hamiltonian components, avoiding unphysical full-state reconstruction while remaining an unbiased estimator of the target energy. We demonstrate the method by preparing ground states of the Bose--Hubbard model and by generating GHZ states, establishing a scalable and hardware-compatible route to quantum state preparation.

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AI-Enabled Decoding of Qubit Loss for Quantum Error-Correcting Codes

Qubit loss is a major source of error in quantum computation, as it invalidates the algebraic structure of the standard stabilizer formalism for quantum error-correcting codes. On the one hand, it complicates decoding; on the other hand, it introduces stochastic flicker patterns in stabilizers as a hallmark of qubit loss. Here, we develop an artificial-intelligence-enabled decoder based on a spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network (STGNN) architecture to extract spatial and temporal correlations from syndrome histories. Our decoder performs a dual-head task, simultaneously correcting standard Pauli errors and identifying the locations of qubit loss. Our decoder achieves significantly higher logical accuracy than both the traditional minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM) algorithm and even delayed-erasure MWPM decoders that use qubit loss information from the final round as input. Our decoder can also identify more than 90% of loss locations after accumulating stabilizer measurements over the subsequent ten rounds, thereby facilitating qubit reinitialization, for instance, via the continuous loading technique on the atom array platform. For both tasks, our STGNN performs nearly identically to a modified version of AlphaQubit, but it employs a parallel input structure, giving it an advantage in inference time over modified AlphaQubit's recurrent input structure. This work provides a robust and scalable framework for correcting qubit loss errors, paving the way for more efficient fault-tolerant quantum computation.

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An Algorithm for Fast Assembling Large-Scale Defect-Free Atom Arrays

It is widely believed that tens of thousands of physical qubits are needed to build a practically useful quantum computer. Atom arrays formed by optical tweezers are among the most promising platforms for achieving this goal, owing to the excellent scalability and mobility of atomic qubits. However, assembling a defect-free atom array with ~ 10^4 qubits remains algorithmically challenging, alongside other hardware limitations. This is due to the computationally hard path-planning problems and the time-consuming generation of suffciently smooth trajectories for optical tweezer potentials by spatial light modulators (SLM). Here, we present a unified framework comprising two innovative components to fully address these algorithmic challenges: (1) a path-planning module that employs a supervised learning approach using a graph neural network combined with a modified auction decoder, and (2) a potential-generation module called the phase and profile-aware Weighted Gerchberg-Saxton algorithm. The inference time for the first module is nearly a size-independent constant overhead of ~ 5 ms, and the second module generates a potential frame with about 0.5 ms, a timescale shorter than the current commercial SLM refresh time. Altogether, our algorithm enables the assembly of an atom array with 10^4 qubits on a timescale much shorter than the typical vacuum lifetime of the trapped atoms.

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TFGAN: Time and Frequency Domain Based Generative Adversarial Network for High-fidelity Speech Synthesis

Recently, GAN based speech synthesis methods, such as MelGAN, have become very popular. Compared to conventional autoregressive based methods, parallel structures based generators make waveform generation process fast and stable. However, the quality of generated speech by autoregressive based neural vocoders, such as WaveRNN, is still higher than GAN. To address this issue, we propose a novel vocoder model: TFGAN, which is adversarially learned both in time and frequency domain. On one hand, we propose to discriminate ground-truth waveform from synthetic one in frequency domain for offering more consistency guarantees instead of only in time domain. On the other hand, in contrast to the conventionally frequency-domain STFT loss approach or feature map loss by discriminator to learn waveform, we propose a set of time-domain loss that encourage the generator to capture the waveform directly. TFGAN has nearly same synthesis speed as MelGAN, but the fidelity is significantly improved by our novel learning method. In our experiments, TFGAN shows the ability to achieve comparable mean opinion score (MOS) than autoregressive vocoder under speech synthesis context.

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FeatherTTS: Robust and Efficient attention based Neural TTS

Attention based neural TTS is elegant speech synthesis pipeline and has shown a powerful ability to generate natural speech. However, it is still not robust enough to meet the stability requirements for industrial products. Besides, it suffers from slow inference speed owning to the autoregressive generation process. In this work, we propose FeatherTTS, a robust and efficient attention-based neural TTS system. Firstly, we propose a novel Gaussian attention which utilizes interpretability of Gaussian attention and the strict monotonic property in TTS. By this method, we replace the commonly used stop token prediction architecture with attentive stop prediction. Secondly, we apply block sparsity on the autoregressive decoder to speed up speech synthesis. The experimental results show that our proposed FeatherTTS not only nearly eliminates the problem of word skipping, repeating in particularly hard texts and keep the naturalness of generated speech, but also speeds up acoustic feature generation by 3.5 times over Tacotron. Overall, the proposed FeatherTTS can be $35$x faster than real-time on a single CPU.

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