Researcher-in-the-Loop Evolutionary Discovery of Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Code Families
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Jae-Hyun Baek, Byung-Sun Won, Jon-Lark Kim · arXiv: 2610.41183v1 · Summary page
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From generated programs to checked mathematics
An AI-assisted search for quantum error-correcting codes illustrates how computational discovery can become mathematical evidence. Researchers combined language-model-guided program evolution with exact evaluation, human generalization, certified nonexistence checks and formal proof checking. Evolved programs produced finite constructions; researchers identified a general family, and Lean checked its underlying algebraic certificate. Together with an additional construction technique, the family closed 54 gaps in archived code tables.
The released evidence includes 115 verified code records and ten nonexistence results backed by checked DRAT proofs. A controlled comparison also found that validation-selected iterative programs succeeded more often at unseen lengths than independently generated programs. The significance is not that an AI output should be trusted as a proof. It is that search, interpretation and verification can be assigned distinct roles, with independently checkable evidence connecting them. The discovery pipeline remains explicitly researcher-in-the-loop.
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