PLDI 2025
Mon 16 - Fri 20 June 2025 Seoul, South Korea

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 19 Jun 2025 10:30 - 10:50 at Cosmos, Violet & Tulip - Quantum Chair(s): Robert Rand

Realizing quantum computing algorithms often requires instantiating and using ancilla qubits. These spare qubits are used only temporarily in the quantum circuit and thus are often utilized with encode-compute-decode operations. In particular, many recently developed high-level quantum programming languages heavily utilize ancilla qubits to maintain internal states with similar gate sequences to implement various programming constructs. We present SPARE a quantum circuit optimizer that breaks down and restructures these encode-compute-decode patterns and uses ancilla qubit state information for circuit optimization. SPARE achieves up to 2.2× improvement in circuit depth gates against the Spire and up to 10.6× improvement in circuit depth against the Unqomp compilers for Tower and Silq high-level languages, respectively. SPARE also achieves up to 1.68× lower circuit depth compared to gate-level rewriting tools like Quartz with an exponentially faster runtime, bridging the gap between gate-level optimizers and quantum-language compilers.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 19 Jun

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10:30 - 12:10
QuantumPLDI Research Papers at Cosmos, Violet & Tulip
Chair(s): Robert Rand University of Chicago
10:30
20m
Talk
Optimizing Ancilla-Based Quantum Circuits with SPARE
PLDI Research Papers
Ritvik Sharma Stanford University, Sara Achour Stanford University
DOI
10:50
20m
Talk
MarQSim: Reconciling Determinism and Randomness in Compiler Optimization for Quantum SimulationRemote
PLDI Research Papers
Xiuqi Cao University of Pennsylvania, Junyu Zhou University of Pennsylvania, Yuhao Liu University of Pennsylvania, Yunong Shi AWS Quantum Technologies, Gushu Li University of Pennsylvania
DOI
11:10
20m
Talk
Quantum Register Machine: Efficient Implementation of Quantum Recursive Programs
PLDI Research Papers
Zhicheng Zhang University of Technology Sydney, Mingsheng Ying University of Technology Sydney
DOI
11:30
20m
Talk
QVM: Quantum Gate Virtualization Machine
PLDI Research Papers
Nathaniel Tornow TU Munich; LRZ, Emmanouil Giortamis TU Munich, Pramod Bhatotia TU Munich
DOI
11:50
20m
Talk
Efficient Formal Verification of Quantum Error Correcting Programs
PLDI Research Papers
Qifan Huang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Zhou Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wang Fang University of Edinburgh, Mengyu Zhao Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mingsheng Ying University of Technology Sydney
DOI Pre-print