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Hezi Zhang
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9ranked-venue papers
5as first author
9since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0009-2948-898XORCID · corroborated
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Systems, architecture and hardware · 9 · 5 first-author · 9 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 7 · 4 first-author · 7 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | PowerMove: Optimizing Compilation for Neutral Atom Quantum Computers with Zoned ArchitectureabstractNeutral atom quantum computers (NAQCs) have emerged as promising candidates for scalable quantum computing, thanks to their advanced hardware capabilities, particularly qubit movement and the Zoned Architecture (ZA). However, fully harnessing these features presents significant compilation challenges, requiring careful coordination across gate scheduling, qubit positioning, atom movement, and inter-zone communication. In this paper, we propose PowerMove, an efficient compiler for NAQCs that unlocks new optimization opportunities, significantly improving qubit movement strategies while seamlessly integrating ZA. Our evaluation demonstrates orders-of-magnitude fidelity improvements over state-of-the-art methods, with execution time reduced by up to 3.76× and compilation time accelerated by up to 216.9× across various NISQ applications. Furthermore, PowerMove extends naturally to the fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) setting, where physical qubits are replaced by logical qubits encoded in QEC codes, achieving a 4.78× reduction in execution time. These results highlight PowerMove's impact on both near-term NISQ applications and long-term FTQC implementations. We have open-sourced our codes at https://github.com/Scarlett0815/PowerMove to facilitate further research and collaboration within the community. Jixuan Ruan, Hezi Zhang, Ang Li 0006, Travis S. Humble, Yufei Ding 0001 |
ASPLOS (3) | 3 |
| 2025 | QECC-Synth: A Layout Synthesizer for Quantum Error Correction Codes on Sparse ArchitecturesabstractQuantum Error Correction (QEC) codes are essential for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC). However, their implementation faces significant challenges due to disparity between required dense qubit connectivity and sparse hardware architectures. Current approaches often either underutilize QEC circuit features or focus on manual designs tailored to specific codes and architectures, limiting their capability and generality. In response, we introduce QECC-Synth, an automated compiler for QEC code implementation that addresses these challenges. We leverage the ancilla bridge technique tailored to the requirements of QEC circuits and introduces a systematic classification of its design space flexibilities. We then formalize this problem using the MaxSAT framework to optimize these flexibilities. Evaluation shows that our method significantly outperforms existing methods while demonstrating broader applicability across diverse QEC codes and hardware architectures. Keyi Yin, Hezi Zhang, Yunong Shi, Travis S. Humble, Ang Li 0006, Yufei Ding 0001 |
ASPLOS (1) | 2 |
| 2025 | SwitchQNet: Optimizing Distributed Quantum Computing for Quantum Data Centers with Switch NetworksabstractDistributed Quantum Computing (DQC) provides a scalable architecture by interconnecting multiple quantum processor units (QPUs).Among various DQC implementations, quantum data centers (QDCs) -where QPUs in different racks are connected through reconfigurable optical switch networks -are becoming feasible in the near term.However, the latency of cross-rack communications and dynamic switch reconfigurations poses unique challenges to communications in QDCs, significantly increasing the overall latency, thereby also reducing the overall fidelity.In this paper, we address these challenges by introducing a novel compiler that optimizes scheduling of communications across the program and network layers.Our evaluation shows that it reduces the overall latency by 8.02× over prior approaches with a small overhead and can be integrated with quantum error correction (QEC) to facilitate fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC).We have open-sourced our codes at https://zenodo.org/records/15377656. Hezi Zhang, Haotian Hu, Keyi Yin, Hassan Shapourian, Jiapeng Zhao, Ramana Rao Kompella, Reza Nejabati, Yufei Ding 0001 |
ISCA | 1 |
| 2025 | OneAdapt: Resource-Adaptive Compilation of Measurement-Based Quantum Computing for Photonic Hardware
Hezi Zhang, Jixuan Ruan, Dean Tullsen, Yufei Ding 0001, Ang Li 0006, Travis S. Humble |
MICRO | 1 |
| 2024 | OnePerc: A Randomness-aware Compiler for Photonic Quantum ComputingabstractThe photonic platform holds great promise for quantum computing. Nevertheless, the intrinsic probabilistic characteristic of its native fusion operations introduces substantial randomness into the computing process, posing significant challenges to achieving scalability and efficiency in program execution. In this paper, we introduce a randomness-aware compilation framework designed to concurrently achieve scalability and efficiency. Our approach leverages an innovative combination of offline and online optimization passes, with a novel intermediate representation serving as a crucial bridge between them. Through a comprehensive evaluation, we demonstrate that this framework significantly outperforms the most efficient baseline compiler in a scalable manner, opening up new possibilities for realizing scalable photonic quantum computing. Hezi Zhang, Jixuan Ruan, Hassan Shapourian, Ramana Rao Kompella, Yufei Ding 0001 |
ASPLOS (3) | 1 |
| 2024 | MECH: Multi-Entry Communication Highway for Superconducting Quantum ChipletsabstractChiplet architecture is an emerging architecture for quantum computing that could significantly increase qubit resources with its great scalability and modularity. However, as the computing scale increases, communication between qubits would become a more severe bottleneck due to the long routing distances. In this paper, we propose a multi-entry communication highway (MECH) mechanism to trade ancillary qubits for program concurrency, and build a compilation framework to efficiently manage and utilize the highway resources. Our evaluation shows that this framework significantly outperforms the baseline approach in both the circuit depth and the number of operations on typical quantum benchmarks. This implies a more efficient and less error-prone compilation of quantum programs. Hezi Zhang, Keyi Yin, Anbang Wu, Hassan Shapourian, Alireza Shabani, Yufei Ding 0001 |
ASPLOS (2) | 1 |
| 2023 | OneQ: A Compilation Framework for Photonic One-Way Quantum ComputationabstractIn this paper, we propose OneQ, the first optimizing compilation framework for one-way quantum computation towards realistic photonic quantum architectures. Unlike previous compilation efforts for solid-state qubit technologies, our innovative framework addresses a unique set of challenges in photonic quantum computing. Specifically, this includes the dynamic generation of qubits over time, the need to perform all computation through measurements instead of relying on 1-qubit and 2-qubit gates, and the fact that photons are instantaneously destroyed after measurements. As pioneers in this field, we demonstrate the vast optimization potential of photonic one-way quantum computing, showcasing the remarkable ability of OneQ to reduce computing resource requirements by orders of magnitude. Hezi Zhang, Anbang Wu, Gushu Li, Hassan Shapourian, Alireza Shabani, Yufei Ding 0001 |
ISCA | 1 |
| 2022 | A synthesis framework for stitching surface code with superconducting quantum devicesabstractQuantum error correction (QEC) is the central building block of fault-tolerant quantum computation but the design of QEC codes may not always match the underlying hardware. To tackle the discrepancy between the quantum hardware and QEC codes, we propose a synthesis framework that can implement and optimize the surface code onto superconducting quantum architectures. In particular, we divide the surface code synthesis into three key subroutines. The first two optimize the mapping of data qubits and ancillary qubits including syndrome qubits on the connectivity-constrained superconducting architecture, while the last subroutine optimizes the surface code execution by rescheduling syndrome measurements. Our experiments on mainstream superconducting architectures demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed synthesis framework. Especially, the surface codes synthesized by the proposed automatic synthesis framework can achieve comparable or even better error correction capability than manually designed QEC codes. Anbang Wu, Gushu Li, Hezi Zhang, Gian Giacomo Guerreschi, Yufei Ding 0001, Yuan Xie 0001 |
ISCA | 3 |
| 2022 | AutoComm: A Framework for Enabling Efficient Communication in Distributed Quantum ProgramsabstractDistributed quantum computing (DQC) is a promising approach to extending the computational power of near-term quantum hardware. However, the non-local quantum communication between quantum nodes is much more expensive and error-prone than the local quantum operation within each quantum device. Previous DQC compilers focus on optimizing the implementation of each non-local gate and adopt similar compilation designs to single-node quantum compilers. The communication patterns in distributed quantum programs remain unexplored, leading to a far-from-optimal communication cost. In this paper, we identify burst communication, a specific qubit-node communication pattern that widely exists in various distributed quantum programs and can be leveraged to guide communication overhead optimization. We then propose AutoComm, an automatic compiler framework to extract burst communication patterns from input programs and then optimize the communication steps of burst communication discovered. Compared to state-of-the-art DQC compilers, experimental results show that our proposed AutoComm can reduce the communication resource consumption and the program latency by 72.9% and 69.2% on average, respectively. Anbang Wu, Hezi Zhang, Gushu Li, Alireza Shabani, Yuan Xie 0001, Yufei Ding 0001 |
MICRO | 2 |