When Error Mitigation Makes Things Worse: Budget-Aware Evaluation, Extrapolation Failure, and the Calibration Trust Boundary

arXiv:2609.38713 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Calibration — 27× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Digital Twin — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adversarial Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Amortization — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science — 1× in this paper
• Quantum Circuits — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Related papers

• Reconquering Bell sampling on qudits: stabilizer learning and testing, quantum pseudorandomness bounds, and more
• Encrypted clones can leak: Classification of informative subsets in Quantum Encrypted Cloning
• Polynomial-time classical and quantum simulation of quantum impurity models
• Theory of quantum-enhanced interferometry with general Markovian light sources
• A convergent hierarchy of spectral gap certificates for qubit Hamiltonians
• Universal Bound and Phase Transition in Many-Body Fermionic Non-Gaussianity