Program of QuBench

Program Overview

Wednesday, 16th September, 2026

Session 1 | 10:00–12:00

Regional Perspectives on Quantum Benchmarking Initiatives

Invited speakers representing major regional quantum benchmarking initiatives across Europe, the UK, the USA, and Japan will share perspectives on current priorities, emerging standards, and opportunities for international coordination. The session will conclude with a moderated panel discussion.

Speakers include:

• Elham Kashefi, NQCC

• Krzysztof Kurowski, EuroHPC JU – PCSS

• Tadashi Kadowaki, AIST

• Oliver Widzowski Maupin, Sandia National Laboratories

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Session 2 | 13:00–14:30

Industry Perspectives on Quantum Benchmarking

This session will bring together perspectives from across the quantum technology ecosystem, including enterprise users, open-source and non-profit initiatives, software companies, and hardware vendors. Speakers will discuss practical benchmarking needs, tools, methodologies, and challenges in evaluating quantum systems and applications.

Speakers include:

• Yu Yamashiro, JIJ

• Shuxiang Cao, NVIDIA

• Robert Wille, Munich Quantum Software Company

• Alessandro Cosentino, Unitary Foundation

• Valentin Gilbert, Quantum Benchmarking Zoo

Session 3 | 15:00–16:30

Workshop Paper Presentations

15:00–15:02

Opening remarks

15:02–15:13

Benchmarking Error Mitigation: Artefactual Improvements in Zero-Noise Extrapolation — Dominik Köster and Wolfgang Mauerer

15:13–15:24

How Far Does Classical Pruning Carry Quantum-Annealed Graph Isomorphisms? An Advantage2 Case Study — Dominik Wrona, Raiyan Chowdhury, Mamoon Akhtar and Mohammad Mahmoud

15:24–15:35

When Classical Baselines Are Tuned as Carefully as the Quantum Model, Does Quantum Reservoir Computing Still Win? — Tushar Pandey

15:35–15:46

A Protocol-Guided LLM Agent for Quantum Program Synthesis and Execution — Ming-Kang Ho and Tai-Yue Li

15:46–15:57

Recursive Quantum Long Short-Term Memory for Stable Short-Horizon Temperature Forecasting — Mu-En Lee, Yen-Ku Liu, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen and Yun-Cheng Tsai

15:57–16:08

Agentic Automation of End-to-End Quantum Resource Estimation for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Chemistry — Mark Jack, Vincent Russo, Michael Souffrant and Yudong Cao

16:08–16:19

Beyond Best Samples: Reliability-Aware QUBO Benchmarking for Policy-Constrained Energy Dispatch — Chia-Ho Ou and Cheng-Yu Wu

16:19–16:30

Quantifying the Simulation-to-Real Transfer Gap for Machine-Learning Quantum Error Correction Decoders — Seokhyeon Son, Junyong Lee, Jeihee Cho, Euimin Lee, Hyeonseong Jung, Yunah Choi and Shiho Kim