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Language-model meta-design generates families of quantum experiments

Language-model meta-design generates families of quantum experiments.

Summary

The Nature Machine Intelligence paper trains a transformer language model to generate human-readable Python code for families of quantum optics experiments. The authors report that the approach can rediscover known design principles and find previously unknown generalizations for important quantum states.

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