What is Minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM)?

Minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM)

Quantum

Minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM): A popular surface-code decoding method that pairs up syndrome events using the fewest, shortest error chains to infer the correction.

Related terms

Activation-aware weight quantisation (AWQ)
Flow matching
Open-weight model
Weight decay
Weight Units
Weight-only quantisation

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