Google Quantum AI Verifiable Quantum Circuit Compilation Competition on Kaggle
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About this hackathon
Google Quantum AI's open Kaggle competition (Oct 22, 2026 – Jan 20, 2027): use AI agents or heuristics to build smaller fault-tolerant quantum circuits for three benchmarks (fusion-energy inverse square root, Reed–Solomon decoding for Decoded Quantum Interferometry, and FeMoCo chemistry lookup/factorization). Submissions must pass the open-source kickmix verifier in Qualtran and are scored on qubit and gate cost. A reported $150,000 prize pool.
- Status
- Deadline
- 2027-01-21
- Starts
- 2026-10-22
- Who
- Open to all (Open worldwide under the Kaggle competition rules)
- Level
- Advanced
- Prize
- $150k · $150,000 prize pool (as reported by Quantum Computing Report; see the Kaggle page for the split)
- Size
- —
- Format
- Online · International
- Location
- San Francisco (online; placed at organizer’s city)
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Original listing (Chinese)
The full original listing below is in Chinese, as published in the Hack123 newsletter.
一句话简介：Google Quantum AI 在 Kaggle 上办的全球公开赛，用 AI 智能体或启发式搜索，把容错量子算法里最贵的子程序电路压得更小。
看点：三道基准题——核聚变（定点 1/√x 相位）、组合优化（DQI 算法里的 Reed–Solomon 解码器）、量子化学（固氮酶 FeMoCo 的哈密顿量分解 + 查找表）；官方给参考基线电路和独立验证器（Apache 2.0 开源），提交的电路必须通过验证，按量子比特数和门数算成本分；底层是 Google 新开源的 kickmix 库（Qualtran 内），单核每秒可做 600 亿门的随机模糊验证，适合接 AI 智能体做自动搜索；Google 称内部用 Gemini 跑过，三道题都还能继续优化
奖金：奖池 15 万美元（金额来自 Quantum Computing Report 报道，分配以 Kaggle 竞赛页为准）
截止日期：2027 年 1 月 20 日 23:59 UTC 最终提交（北京时间 1 月 21 日 7:59，线上，全球；Kaggle 通常提前一周截止报名与组队，以竞赛页为准）
活动日期：2026年10月22日—2027年1月20日
Summarized from the organizer’s page and public posts. Please confirm details on the official site before registering.