Mark M. Wilde

Metriq: A Collaborative Platform for Benchmarking Quantum Computers The fragmented landscape of quantum computer benchmarks, characterized by system-specific tools and inconsistent evaluation methodologies, hinders reliable cross-platform performance assessment. We in...

🎉🎉New paper: "Metriq: A Collaborative Platform for Benchmarking Quantum Computers" 🎉🎉

We built an open platform to run the same benchmarks across quantum hardware from IBM, Quantinuum, IQM, Rigetti, IonQ, and OriginQ, then compared them all.
scirate.com/arxiv/2603.0...

thanks for your interest.

I think the group I presented to recorded it and might post it eventually on youtube.

Thanks for your reply. I'll get back soon. Overwhelmed with various tasks at the moment

I really enjoyed the lively discussion! Thanks for the invitation

Fundamentals of quantum Boltzmann machine learning with visible and hidden units One of the primary applications of classical Boltzmann machines is generative modeling, wherein the goal is to tune the parameters of a model distribution so that it closely approximates a target dist...

I was invited by @eliesgf.bsky.social to give an online seminar to @jenseisert.bsky.social's q. machine learning group. I spoke about "Fundamentals of q. Boltzmann machine learning w/ visible & hidden units" arxiv.org/abs/2512.19819. Slides from my talk available here:

zenodo.org/records/1889...

thanks! I got your email and will reply soon. From a first glance, your paper looks interesting

Fermi-Dirac thermal measurements: A framework for quantum hypothesis testing and semidefinite optimization Quantum measurements are the means by which we recover messages encoded into quantum states. They are at the forefront of quantum hypothesis testing, wherein the goal is to perform an optimal measurem...

Joint work "Fermi-Dirac thermal measurements: A framework for quantum hypothesis testing and semidefinite optimization" with Nana Liu now online:

arxiv.org/abs/2603.04061

"new quantum machine-learning model, termed Fermi-Dirac machines, consisting of parameterized Fermi-Dirac thermal measurements"

yes, you are really right on this! It is painful to submit work to other venues.

many authors and copyeditors no longer take pride or care in their work. It is just about generating lots of content to fill up a CV, and all of these new journals are cropping up to support this need.

it seems that, nearly every month, a new journal focusing on quantum information & computing gets started. Here is a screenshot of a paper in a new one. They'll be happy to publish your papers without consideration for formatting & most authors won't care enough to check for these problems either.

Query complexities of quantum channel discrimination and estimation: A unified approach The goal of quantum channel discrimination and estimation is to determine the identity of an unknown channel from a discrete or continuous set, respectively. The query complexity of these tasks is equ...

I gave a seminar yesterday at RMIT University in Melbourne on "Query complexities of quantum channel discrimination and estimation: A unified approach" arxiv.org/abs/2511.10832 , joint work w/ Zixin Huang, @jjmeyer.bsky.social , & Theshani Nuradha

Slides available here:

zenodo.org/records/1871...

congrats!

Beyond i.i.d. submission deadline Feb. 13:

www.beyondiid2026.com

A Converse Bound via the Nussbaum-Szkoła Mapping for Quantum Hypothesis Testing Quantum hypothesis testing concerns the discrimination between quantum states. This paper introduces a novel lower bound for asymmetric quantum hypothesis testing that is based on the Nussbaum-Szkoła ...

strong theoretical development for quantum hypothesis testing:

arxiv.org/abs/2601.13970

Nussbaum-Szkola distributions are now useful for asymmetric quantum hypothesis testing, in addition to symmetric quantum hypothesis testing

Genuine multipartite Rains entanglement We introduce the genuine multipartite Rains entanglement (GMRE) as a measure of genuine multipartite entanglement that can be computed using semi-definite programming. Similar to the Rains relative en...

Joint work "Genuine multipartite Rains entanglement" w/ Hailey Murray, Sagnik Bhattacharya, M. Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social, Liuke Lyu now available on arXiv:

arxiv.org/abs/2601.09590

We establish a genuine multipartite generalization of the famous Rains entanglement measure for bipartite states

List of Reviewers Not to Include:

Anyone who might reject my proposal

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Please apply/encourage your students to apply here:

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We also have a handshake link too🤝 :

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Shares appreciated!

two lurkers in the back...

I do! Next time we chat please provide me with a structural analysis of Roman aqueducts :)

wow, looks like a nice party! have a good holiday break

that's really terrible. The journals need to do checks for this before sending out papers for peer review

that is true, but this one was particularly bizarre

it is very difficult to tell actually. It seems like a copy-paste

We recently received a referee report from Phys. Rev. Lett. @apsphysics.bsky.social that was obviously written by generative AI. It is so bizarre to read it; I have never received anything like it before. What measures is @apsphysics.bsky.social taking to ensure the integrity of the review process?

here is what chatgpt has to say about it

IW-QBM 2025 A Self-Organizing Open-Spaces Unconference

The International Workshop on Quantum Boltzmann Machines will start next week Dec. 8:

wqbm.info

Now let's get to the current conference
Patrick and Lirande said, `Folks don't be so dense:
it's not on our own that we will learn to see:
we're just one happy quantum family!'
-- learn from the quantum, friends, and it will learn for you

Now we come to the last half century
string theory don't work nor supersymmetry
something fundamental is what we gotta do
quantum information and computation too
-- qubits, that is, all the way down

The next fifty years was a wild quantum ride
elementary particles and what goes down inside?
Feynman and Gell-Mann showed us how to see it through:
QED and quarks and weak interactions too
-- the Standard Model, that is, wrapped it all up

Next thing you know it's nineteen twenty five
Heisenberg and Schroedinger said `Man alive!'
They said matrices and vectors is what you gotta do
for fermions and bosons and entanglement too
--quantum mechanics, that is, as weird as it gets