Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026We quantified how much closer OpenAI's improvement over MRRW brings us to GV lower bound: at most 2%. Gain over MRRW: at most ~1%. 012
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026And if you have an EC or QEC paper, consider getting an agent to push to the Zoo! 041
Reposted by Error Correction ZooVictor V. Albert @vva.bsky.social · 24/06/2026After extensive experiments with AI agents, the [72,36,16] extremal code remains elusive—and possibly more intractable than we expected. This isn’t your average Erdős puzzle; it’s full-stack math + compute. We’re opening the search to the community: take a shot. valbert4.github.io/selfdual_site/valbert4.github.ioSearching for a [72,36,16] extremal code 0114
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Big update: the EC Zoo is now a handbook. It spans codes, sphere packings, lattices, designs, groups, and phases of matter. Extensively checked, but not perfect—feedback very welcome: arxiv.org/abs/2606.11484arxiv.orgHandbook of Error-Correcting CodesBarcode scans, clear phone calls, reliable data storage, satellite communication, and large-scale quantum computation are all made possible by error correction. We present a handbook version of The Er... 0227
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026The 14th International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2026) will be held June 8-12, 2026, in Paris, France. Event details and information can be found here: wcc2026.inria.frwcc2026.inria.frWCC 2026 062
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026We are living in exciting times. Starting today, the zoo will be completely redone by AI! errorcorrectionzoo.org/__41aierrorcorrectionzoo.orgAboutThe Error Correction Zoo collects and organizes error-correcting codes. 1105
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Assuming these estimates hold up, the number of physical qubits already made in the lab and the number required for running utility-scale algorithms would be, for the first time, in the same ballpark. Given Google's parallel paper and move to scope out atom platforms, people are starting to notice. 000
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026On the hardware side, serious players will be looking to create scalable foundry-level tools for atom-based devices like those for chip-based hardware. One thing Team Atoms always has going for them: Nature made all atoms identical! 100
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Many gadgets have yet to be fully optimized for the QLDPC + neutral atom combination. This optimization is crucial, as atom-based platforms are natively slower than chip-based platforms by orders of magnitude. 100
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Shor's algorithm has lots of moving parts, and runtimes are improving every year. The non-geometrically local connectivity of neutral atoms enables further reductions using QLDPC codes. There is plenty of room at the bottom here: QLDPC is the bleeding edge. 100
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026The paper punts the LLM-assisted QEC codes used for the time-efficient estimate to future work. We are left to speculate why they were omitted. Perhaps time pressure, perhaps novel constructions too hard to explain for now. 100
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026The forward-looking Oratomic time-efficient architecture claims to "potentially enable runtimes of 10 days for ECC–256 with ≈26,000 qubits, and 97 days for RSA–2048 with ≈102,000." This is based on stitching together several gadgets and plausibly assuming they can work together on an atom platform. 183
Reposted by Error Correction ZooVictor V. Albert @vva.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Here are videos and slides of my 6 hour overview of QEC, slightly updated from my @qip2025.bsky.social tutorial. Thanks goes to Kishor Bharti and Atul Arora for letting me give this at the Quantum Meets! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... zenodo.org/records/1874...youtube.comQuantum Tutorials | 2026 - YouTube 1193
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Critiques of modern wireless communication theory by the giants, Viterbi and Gallagher. Also, a short introduction to the Shannon paradigm. rs-ojict.pubpub.org/pub/pw5st68m... rs-ojict.pubpub.org/pub/pg25jymv...rs-ojict.pubpub.orgThe Narrowing Path: A Critique of Modern Wireless Research from an Information-Theoretic PerspectiveThis article is a synthesis and critique inspired by the author's work and perspective. It is intended to provoke constructive debate and a reorientation of research priorities 030
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Check out a feature about the Zoo by Doraking, featuring Zootopia's Judy Hopps as the surface code! dev.to/doraking/qua...dev.toQuantum Error Correction ZootopiaOn the journey of learning quantum computing, there is a vast labyrinth that everyone wanders into at... 010
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Submissions are open for the 14th edition of the biannual Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC) on June 8 to 12, 2026, at the @fondation-inria.bsky.social Research Center in Paris. wcc2026.inria.frwcc2026.inria.frWCC 2026 000
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025We still can't prove why turbo codes work this well! errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/turbo 010
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Turbo codes were shown experimentally to nearly achieve Shannon capacity, and information theorists didn't believe that a telecom engineer was able to solve this longstanding problem. 110
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Peter Shor: we haven't found many new quantum algorithms, in part, because we need larger quantum devices for testing our heuristics. He gives several examples of algorithms that were discovered computationally, including turbo codes, @fermilab.bsky.social quantum symposium by the SQMS center. 1238
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025"After all the manipulation, the qubits are read, collapsing their quantum state into either a zero or one. Bur there's a catch..." Nice @pbs.org documentary with epic animations. youtu.be/t06aTX9jM34?...youtu.beDecoding the Universe: Quantum | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBSYouTube video by NOVA PBS Official 020
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025"Third, implementation of real-time QEC with sufficiently high throughput and latency may favor using simple decoders (e.g., cellular automata), which may not be compatible with the most resource-efficient QEC codes." 000
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025"Second, we may double-down on codes with access to fast transversal gates, such as surface codes and color codes, despite their suboptimal encoding rates." 100
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025"First, in the long term we advocate for transitioning away from Pauli-based computation, in order to implement gates in parallel. This results in the need to implement Clifford gates explicitly." 100
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Big-picture analysis from @awscloud, warning about the currently slow clock speed of quantum computers. arxiv.org/abs/2510.26078arxiv.orgThe Fast for the Curious: How to accelerate fault-tolerant quantum applicationsWe evaluate strategies for reducing the run time of fault-tolerant quantum computations, targeting practical utility in scientific or industrial workflows. Delivering a technology with broad impact re... 190
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Quote by W. Wesley Peterson in a 1962 Scientific American article somewhat rings true today, except with "quantum" everywhere. 0100
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025"For decades, experimental progress on QEC lagged far behind theory, but this is starting to change." 040
Reposted by Error Correction ZooDave Bacon @dabacon.tachyon.institute · 08/10/2025*Cooper fun fact: Cooper pairs are error detecting codes, a singlet and a space part that is a symmetric |k,-k>+|-k,k> 141
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 15/08/2025In closing of #qec2025, we have put up our 1000th code -- the [[8,3,2]] surface code on a cube (aka the Landahl plucky code)! It is a non-CSS code different from the smallest interesting color code. Stabilizer generators are X, Y, or Z strings on the faces. errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/cubic_surf...errorcorrectionzoo.org\([[8,3,2]]\) Surface code on a cubeAn [[8,3,2]] twist-defect surface code whose qubits lie on the vertices of a cube. It is obtained by three-coloring the faces of a cube and placing X, Y, and Z stabilizer generators on each pair of fa... 0152
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Peter Shor receives a small gift on the 30th anniversary of his QEC paper at #QEC2025. 0243
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Artist Stewart Smith cools down the participant "qubits" to prepare for decoding the surface code at the QEC Choir interactive art exhibit at @qec2025 at the @yaleqi.bsky.social. 070
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 11/08/2025@mjbiercuk.bsky.social and Q-CTRL helping out the #qec2025 conference with performance boosters. 093
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Tutorials begin at QEC2025 at @yaleqi.bsky.social. Here is an artistic rendition of some famous codes at the Google Quantum AI tutorial. 0214
Reposted by Error Correction ZooJohn Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 09/08/2025In our world of (noisy) data, error correction is everywhere, as Mary Wootters eloquently explains. www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-math...quantamagazine.orgHow Can Math Protect Our Data? | Quanta MagazineMary Wootters discusses how error-correcting codes work, and how they are essential for reliable communication and storage. 0236
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025We are now at 999 codes. What should be our 1000th? If we pick yours, we will feature you in a post about the code. Comment, reply, message, and spread the word. 283
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Art, emotion, and quantum error correction news.yale.edu/2025/06/18/a...news.yale.eduArt, emotion, and quantum error correctionSerena Scapagnini, the most recent Yale Quantum Institute artist-in-residence, will headline two events at this month’s International Festival of Arts and Ideas. 040
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Clean result on multi-block diagonal transversal gates by @fridaysimon.bsky.social and Shival Dasu that finally cracks open what prodigy Eric Rains was saying before many of us were born. arxiv.org/abs/2507.10519 080
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 22/06/2025We mourn the loss of one of the founders of the QEC (Knill-Laflamme) conditions and one of the first to write down the five qubit code (aka the Laflamme code). errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/stab_5_1_3 0201
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025QEC2025 accepted talks out! qec25.yalepages.org/assets/image... @yaleqi.bsky.socialqec25.yalepages.org 020
Reposted by Error Correction ZooEarl Campbell @quantumearl.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Ted Yoder summarised the onslaught of qLDPC logic papers (for fixed architectures) from IBM (and others). I’ve read most/some of these papers but had a few gaps remaining in my understanding before today … 291
Reposted by Error Correction Zoo𝖬𝖺𝗁𝖽𝗂 𝖢𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗀𝗁𝖼𝗁𝗂 @mahdi.ch · 18/04/2025📣 Call for Papers (EXTENDED DEADLINE!) 📣 The deadline for the IEEE BITS Special Issue on Error-Correcting Codes has now been extended by about two weeks. The new deadline for the 3-page "white paper" is now May 2, 2025: www.itsoc.org/sites/defaul...itsoc.org 001
Reposted by Error Correction Zoo𝖬𝖺𝗁𝖽𝗂 𝖢𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗀𝗁𝖼𝗁𝗂 @mahdi.ch · 04/04/2025Huge congratulations to my amazing student Yeyuan Chen (+co-author Zihan Zhang of OSU advised by Zeyu Guo) for being awarded the STOC 2025 Best Student Paper Award! Their monumental result proves that explicit Reed-Solomon codes can correct more errors than previously known: arxiv.org/abs/2408.15925arxiv.orgExplicit Folded Reed-Solomon and Multiplicity Codes Achieve Relaxed Generalized Singleton BoundsIn this paper, we prove that explicit FRS codes and multiplicity codes achieve relaxed generalized Singleton bounds for list size $L\ge1.$ Specifically, we show the following: (1) FRS code of length $... 2477
Reposted by Error Correction ZooClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 15/04/2025The submission deadline for the 2025 IEEE Information Theory Workshop has been extended to ⏰ April 21 AoE. Information Theorists: submit your work, come present it in beautiful #Sydney! www.ieee-itw2025.org/call-for-pap... #ITW25ieee-itw2025.orgCall for Papers | ITW2025 176
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025"All learning is error correction." - @navalravikant.bsky.social 020
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Slides from Daniel Gottesman's invited talk at the March Meeting, summarizing some latest work on Floquet and more general dynamical codes. www.cs.umd.edu/~dgottesm/Dy...cs.umd.edu 090
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025We’re excited to share updates ensuring the long-term sustainability of the EC Zoo. To continue delivering great content and improving your experience, we’re introducing a new subscription-based model. Check out our website for more detailed information! 1282
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Ben Reichardt summarizes leading platforms at the annual experimental talk @qip2025.bsky.social, this time given by a theorist. 091
Reposted by Error Correction ZooVictor V. Albert @vva.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Here are slides for my @qip2025.bsky.social tutorial on quantum error correction. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 3356
Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025He presents a challenge to make a better color code decoder to avoid grafting color and surface codes. 050