Qiskit / Qiskit/documentation

proposal to improve "job estimation" comprehension

Open
#2,587 0 comments 0 reactions 2 assignees View on GitHub

@beckykd is already working on this.

Since Jan 21, 2025.

content 📄 content request
Dominant language
Jupyter Notebook
Stars
106
Forks
223
Avg merge
1d 8h
Merged PRs (30d)
72

Description

URL, if applicable

https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/guides/estimate-job-run-time

Describe the new content you are requesting.

Hi,
I suggest we clarify the goal of estimation and when it can be useful.
My first though using the provided example was to question the fact that to obtain an estimation I had to submit my job. Since the example is straightforward the estimation was even very different relatively from the execution time.
Several aspects weren't clear.
When you "estimate" on a simple circuit, it might not be very useful. But if you have a complex one, the classical computation part can take long and during this time, the estimation can help you decide whether :

  • you continue
  • you cancel
  • or if you can afford to run a longer test on more shots, or if you need to split your circuit, etc ...
    Thanks
If this new content request is accepted, do you want to write the content?

I only want to review the material when it's finished

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.