The winner's curse in hardware VQE: drift-differenced remeasurement of finite-shot selection bias

arXiv:2609.27704 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-10-01

Terminology

• Core — 46× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 31× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Benchmark — 23× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 17× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Selection Bias — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmarking — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Influence Functions — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Digital Twin — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes

Sources

• Reliable Optimization Under Noise in Quantum Variational Algorithms

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