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A quest toward comprehensive benchmarking of quantum computing software

Nature Computational Science volume 5, pages 363–364 (2025)Cite this article

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A comprehensive open-source benchmarking suite is presented. It can be used to evaluate the performance and functionality of various quantum software development kits for manipulating and compiling quantum circuits.

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Fig. 1: Benchmarking classical preprocessing overhead in quantum circuit compilation.

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    Chenghong Zhu, Lei Zhang & Xin Wang

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Zhu, C., Zhang, L. & Wang, X. A quest toward comprehensive benchmarking of quantum computing software. Nat Comput Sci 5, 363–364 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-025-00803-y

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