SPLASH 2025
Sun 12 - Sat 18 October 2025 Singapore
co-located with ICFP/SPLASH 2025

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Sat 18 Oct 2025 12:00 - 12:15 at Orchid Small - Quantum

Quantum computing platforms rely on simulators for modelling circuit behaviour prior to hardware execution, where inconsistencies can lead to costly errors. While existing formal validation methods typically target specific compiler components to manage state explosion, they often miss critical bugs. Meanwhile, conventional testing lacks systematic exploration of corner cases and realistic execution scenarios, resulting in both false positives and negatives.

We present \toolname, a novel framework that bridges this gap by combining formal methods with structured test generation and fuzzing for quantum simulators. Our approach employs differential benchmarking complemented by mutation testing and invariant checking. At its core, \toolname{} utilises our Alloy-based formal model of QASM 3.0, which encodes the semantics of quantum circuits to enable automated analysis and to generate structurally diverse, constraint-guided quantum circuits with guaranteed properties. We introduce several test oracles to assess both Alloy’s modelling of QASM 3.0 and simulator correctness, including invariant-based checks, statistical distribution tests, and a novel cross-simulator unitary consistency check that verifies functional equivalence modulo global phase, revealing discrepancies that standard statevector comparisons fail to detect in cross-platform differential testing.

We evaluate \toolname{} on both Qiskit and Cirq, demonstrating its platform-agnostic effectiveness. By executing over 800,000 quantum circuits to completion, we assess throughput, code and circuit coverage, and simulator performance metrics, including sensitivity, correctness, and memory overhead. Our analysis revealed eight simulator bugs, six previously undocumented. We also outline a path for extending the framework to support mixed-state simulations under realistic noise models.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Sat 18 Oct

Displayed time zone: Perth change

10:30 - 12:15
10:30
15m
Talk
AccelerQ: Accelerating Quantum Eigensolvers With Machine Learning on Quantum Simulators
OOPSLA
Avner Bensoussan King's College London, Elena Chachkarova Kings College London, Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, Sophie Fortz King's College London, Connor Lenihan King's College London
10:45
15m
Talk
A Language for Quantifying Quantum Network Behavior
OOPSLA
Anita Buckley USI Lugano, Pavel Chuprikov Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Rodrigo Otoni USI Lugano, Robert Soulé Yale University, Robert Rand University of Chicago, Patrick Eugster USI Lugano, Switzerland
11:00
15m
Talk
Compositional Quantum Control Flow with Efficient Compilation in Qunity
OOPSLA
Mikhail Mints California Institute of Technology, Finn Voichick University of Maryland, Leonidas Lampropoulos University of Maryland, College Park, Robert Rand University of Chicago
11:15
15m
Talk
Dependency-Aware Compilation for Surface Code Quantum Architectures
OOPSLA
Abtin Molavi University of Wisconsin-Madison, Amanda Xu University of Wisconsin-Madison, Swamit Tannu University of Wisconsin-Madison, Aws Albarghouthi University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:30
15m
Talk
QbC: Quantum Correctness by Construction
OOPSLA
Anurudh Peduri Ruhr University Bochum, Ina Schaefer KIT, Michael Walter Ruhr-Universität Bochum
11:45
15m
Talk
qblaze: An Efficient and Scalable Sparse Quantum Simulator
OOPSLA
Hristo Venev INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Thien Udomsrirungruang University of Oxford, Dimitar Dimitrov INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Timon Gehr ETH Zurich, Martin Vechev ETH Zurich
12:00
15m
Talk
Shaking Up Quantum Simulators with Fuzzing and Rigour
OOPSLA
Vasileios Klimis Queen Mary University of London, Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, Avner Bensoussan King's College London, Elena Chachkarova Kings College London, Sophie Fortz King's College London, Connor Lenihan King's College London