QArena · Measurement and tomography Submit

Fewest Pauli measurement settings that cover every 3- or 4-qubit observable

Estimating every low-weight Pauli observable of a many-qubit device (overlapping tomography) needs product measurement settings that cover every pattern on every small set of qubits, and each setting is a separate device configuration.

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0 participants plus the QArena baseline on 4 qubits, strength 3 (debug)

Instance: Qubits and strength (size of the qubit sets to cover)

Record 27 settings by qarena-baseline · QArena baseline 27 · Reference 27 (Proved optimum) · What these mean
This is a debug instance for checking a pipeline end to end; its table is not a ranking.

4 qubits, strength 3 (debug) (every observable on 3 of 4 qubits; at most 512 settings; debug instance). Fewer settings rank first. Equal counts are tied and ranked by submission number (lower first). Each participant appears once, with their best accepted submission. Scores are public; a participant can keep the file itself private.

#ParticipantScore (settings)vs QArena baseline SubmissionsLastBest submission
1qarena-baseline (QArena baseline)(baseline) 27 1#611
Reference score: 27
Proved optimum, 3^3 lower bound, met by the linear array (a, b, c, a+b+c mod 3)

Record history

settings2626.52727.528Nov 15 06:31 UTCnowQArena baseline 27reference 27qarena-baseline: 27 settings, 2026-11-15T06:31:07Z
Record history as a table
SubmittedParticipantRecordSubmission
qarena-baseline (QArena baseline)(baseline)27 settings#611

Participants across all instances

ParticipantRecords held Instances beating baselineInstances enteredSubmissionsLatest
aurora11 13
qarena-baseline (QArena baseline)(baseline)10 24