PennyLaneAI / PennyLaneAI/catalyst
Add support for rotation gates in `to_ppr` pass
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- Python
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Description
Currently, The to_ppr pass supports PauliRot gate. but not regular rotation gates like RX. Since the latter can be expressed as a PauliRot gate, we can add support for them as well.
Right now, a circuit like below would fail:
qml.capture.enable()
dev = qml.device("null.qubit", wires=1)
pipeline = [("pipe", ["quantum-compilation-stage"])]
@qml.qjit(pipelines=pipeline)
@qml.transforms.to_ppr
@qml.qnode(dev)
def circuit():
qml.RX(0.1, wires=0)
return qml.expval(qml.PauliZ(0))
print(circuit.mlir_opt)
with the error message:
catalyst.utils.exceptions.CompileError: catalyst failed with error code 1: Compilation failed:
circuit:24:12: error: Unsupported gate. Supported gates: H, S, T, X, Y, Z, S†, T†, I, and CNOT
%5 = "quantum.custom"(%4, %3) {gate_name = "RX", operandSegmentSizes = array<i32: 1, 1, 0, 0>, resultSegmentSizes = array<i32: 1, 0>} : (f64, !quantum.bit) -> !quantum.bit
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the provided qml.RX example with qml.transforms.to_ppr and the shown compilation pipeline. Then inspect the to_ppr pass and its existing PauliRot handling; done means regular rotation gates such as RX compile without the unsupported-gate error.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100