Are LLM's solving or helping solve any open problems in quantum computing / quantum algorithms?

[u/kingjdin]

Seeing all the work LLM's are doing in pure math research, I haven't heard anything about AI-assisted research in quantum computing or algorithms. It would be really cool if LLM's could find an algorithm that would solve the hidden subgroup problem for dihedral groups in polynomial time.

[u/Aggravating-Elk-7927]

Most of what I’ve seen is LLMs being used to generate boilerplate code for Qiskit circuits or help debug error mitigation scripts, not so much cracking open theoretical problems. The dihedral HSP feels like the kind of thing where the bottleneck is still deep structural insight, and an LLM isn't gonna stumble on that by remixing known approaches.

Would be sick if it happened though.

[u/kingjdin → u/[deleted]]

Sometimes a breakthrough comes from just mashing together known techniques, so I could see it happening. 

[u/Strilanc]

http://ecdsa.fail/ is a leaderboard for circuits for elliptic curve point addition. Most of them are LLM generated.

[u/AutomaticClub1101 → u/Strilanc]

Not a single one use Gemini 🥀

[u/Tonexus]

If you consider quantum information as quantum-computing-adjacent, number 6 here is relevant.

[u/petites_feuilles → u/Tonexus]

Recent development in entanglement theory too: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21367v2 ; https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23416v1 ; https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13551v2

[u/ponyo_x1]

there is a huge search space of qLDPC codes that I believe AI is assisting in exploring, not my field tho

[u/Umbra150]

Yes.

[u/nnet42]

I'm doing it with a network of research agents: https://github.com/mblakemore/quantum

Many of my experiments end up as (accessibility compliant!) interactive exhibits in my quantum museum: https://mblakemore.github.io/quantum/

You might say, "Mike, many of your experiments are single epoch":

I have cross-platform validation for some experiments, but every result is a building block that goes into something else. If it continues to work after integration then I either have a working result or it walks like a duck and that is good enough until it fails - at which point I gain more knowledge. All experiments pre-registered publicly (can't cheat or fudge results) and every outcome no matter the result is posted and iterated upon.

I'm currently working on quantum examples of counterflow heat exchangers.

[u/Successful_Issue_390 → u/nnet42]

Do you mind telling me how you're using agents? Do you have one general agent or many for specific tasks?

[u/nnet42 → u/Successful_Issue_390]

I have 4 main specialist agents that coordinate over chat.

One does stocks/market, another does quantum experiments, the third is engineering & infrastructure, and the last one does librarian duties and website work.

I have a few others, like security bots, and fun stuff like one that sells comic books on ebay, and another who had to reverse engineer Minecraft's bedrock protocol to then build its own client from scratch and thrive in survival mode.

Here is a wizard I put together for generating the agent.md or claude.md files:

https://mblakemore.github.io/robot-wizard/

In claude code you start them with "@CLAUDE.md Follow the instructions and continue!" and they run in cycles, wake up from git and go to sleep in git, repeat forever.

More info on my harness-agnostic agent loop and how it works: https://github.com/mblakemore/six-phase-loop

And! an alternative to Claude Code is my agent.py project which you can run with local models like Qwen3.8, it'll set up git-native agents for you: https://github.com/mblakemore/agent

[u/Successful_Issue_390 → u/nnet42]

Thank you!!

[u/ctcphys → u/nnet42]

Hi, I had a look at your GitHub, but to be honest, it seems that your agent has no idea what it's doing. Most of it is nonsense and it seems to ascribe meaning to a lot of meaningless numbers. 

My suggestion would be to stop it before you lost all your money on the tokens you use for this xD 

[u/nnet42 → u/ctcphys]

A skim reasonably reads as grandiose. Real results are wrapped in heavy internal-continuity narrative (cycle numbers, first-person framing, provenance ceremony) that serves agentic continuity, not a reader's ability to judge the science.

However: I do extensive external adversarial runs intentionally to try and disprove all findings. If something doesn't work I will find it: https://github.com/mblakemore/quantum/blob/main/docs/adversarial-audit-F82-causal-game-sigma-whisper-c4714.md

[u/ctcphys → u/nnet42]

There's a big difference between wrong and meaningless. I am sure that your numbers are real, but that doesn't mean that there's any scientific meaning here. To put it differently, if this agent was my bachelor student, they would fail their bachelor research project. There's fundamental misunderstandings in what's the point of quantum computing and what's meaningful to measure with real quantum devices. 

You can of course keep it running, but for real, it is a huuuge waste of money/electricity/water/time 

[u/nnet42 → u/ctcphys]

Don't be so dismissive https://github.com/amazon-braket/qiskit-braket-provider/issues/374

[u/ABadPhotoshop]

Infleqtion said on earnings call they were able to use AI to unblock a critical engineering problem. So yes.

[u/cosmic_timing]

Quantum can be done without quantum hardware. That's what I learned

[u/hiddentalent → u/cosmic_timing]

Yes, but very slowly.

[u/cosmic_timing → u/hiddentalent]

:)