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Research paperEfficiency & Inference1 source · Oct 7, 2026

QuSema: Detecting Silent Bugs in Quantum Libraries via Quantum-knowledge-enhanced Agents

Here we present QuSema, an autonomous testing agent for finding silent bugs in quantum libraries.

Key points

  • Quantum libraries are now critical infrastructure for quantum algorithm development, yet their correctness remains difficult to test.
  • QuSema uses constraints from quantum semantics and documentation as a source-level semantic oracle to assess whether implementation logic can produce invalid outputs from valid inputs.
  • Guided by quantum-domain reasoning, QuSema turns high-level behavioral mismatches into concrete, user-triggerable bug reports, enabling it to uncover non-crash defects.
  • We implement QuSema for Qiskit and PennyLane.

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