Several published comparisons of variational quantum optimizers time only runs that reach a target loss, or read the verdict at a single target. Either convention could decide whether an optimizer's costlier steps pay off. We measure how much each convention changes verdicts among Adam, simultaneous perturbation stocha …
Scientific dynamics forecasting is often framed as an architecture choice, although deployment is also determined by observed history, rollout feedback, compute budget, physical objective, and test distribution. We formulate protocol-dependent model selection and introduce ProtocolMatch, a compute-matched, validation-s …
Scientific code generation can produce executable programs that fail to compute the intended scientific object. We study this problem in language-model synthesis of Clifford circuits, which prepare the stabilizer states used in quantum error correction and admit exact classical verification. In our target-conditioned f …