WERQSHOP 2025 Technical Report - Unitary Foundation

Following the energy of Operating at the edge of failure: WERQSHOP 2025 Recap, we took the time to further distill the themes of the talks, breakouts, and discussions into one place.

The full WERQSHOP 2025 Technical Report captures speaker summaries, discussion highlights, and the threads the community wants to pull next. Give it a read, share it, and let us know what else would help you keep the conversation going.

Abstract:

The 2025 Workshop on Error Resilience in Quantum computing (WERQSHOP) brought together 60 researchers, software developers, and practitioners across the field of quantum computing to critically assess the role of quantum error mitigation (QEM) as quantum devices enter the early fault-tolerant era. With presentations spanning limitations, experimental breakthroughs, and emerging QEM-QEC hybrid strategies, the event highlighted the lack of general-purpose solutions, the promise of tailored mitigation techniques, and the growing importance of open infrastructure to support research. This report synthesizes key insights, challenges, and forward-looking recommendations from two days of talks, panels, and discussions.

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