Lesson 019: Transpilation trade-off matrices
Focus
Separate statistical noise from calibration drift before claiming algorithm wins. Token Transpilation trade-off matrices:19 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Transpilation trade-off matrices · drill v9 · spin
729785. - Habit: pair each job with shot budget, mitigation profile, and a calibration fingerprint you could paste.
- Guardrail: write one line about where classical cost dominated the timeline.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
VQE rehearsal card
H_SUBSPACE_TAG: VS-19
ANSATZ_BLOCKS: repetitions R=2
CLASSICAL_OPTIM: COBYLA
CONVERGENCE_GUARD: plateau_epochs > 7 ⇒ widen shot budget memo
ENERGY_CI: tracked alongside parameter shift noise
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 19 Bump literals mindset by 40.