5th International Workshop on
Quantum Compilation
22-23 July 2023
Paris, France
Saturday 22 July 2023: Invited Talk
Catalyst: An AOT/JIT compiler for accelerated quantum computing in Python
Software development packages for quantum computing have significantly evolved in recent years, having matured from early prototypes to tools and products for research, development, and education. Yet, many are still limited by early designs for constructing and representing quantum programs, which struggle to provide performance for large-scale applications and hybrid quantum-classical compute workflows.
Catalyst is a new just-in-time (JIT) and ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler for accelerated quantum computing in Python. It introduces a unified intermediate representation (IR) for hybrid programs based on the MLIR compiler framework; a frontend that enables the capture of hybrid compute graphs from Python, with integration into the PennyLane SDK and the Python machine learning ecosystem; and a runtime library for hybrid workflow execution on heterogeneous computing resources. A key focus is the support for advanced quantum programming paradigms, such as real-time measurement feedback, (unbounded) control flow, and quantum differentiable programming with simulator- and hardware-compatible automatic differentiation (AD).
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