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Quantum Simulation Finds a Cheaper Contraction Order

ArcTN's Light preset cut planned FLOPs 61.32 percent against one compared baseline while planning 1.62 times faster.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-10-23-016
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Summary

ArcTN's Light preset cut planned FLOPs 61.32 percent against one compared baseline while planning 1.62 times faster.

ArcTN combines randomized-greedy construction, subtree reconfiguration and parallel tempering, then slices tensors to fit memory limits. Its relative gains vary by network and comparator, but the reported suite shows lower planning-plus-execution cost on the common completed runs.

Why it matters

ArcTN's Light preset cut planned FLOPs 61.32 percent against one compared baseline while planning 1.62 times faster.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. ArcTN's Light preset cut planned FLOPs 61.32 percent against one compared baseline while planning 1.62 times faster.

    Evidence: source-2026-10-23-018

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2610.31554, original v1arXiv · primary research

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