Machine learning-assisted noise characterization and entanglement verification in superconducting qubits

Abstract

The scalability of superconducting quantum processors is fundamentally limited by environmental noise and the exponential measurement overhead required for multi-qubit entanglement verification. In this work, we introduce a hybrid machine learning (ML) framework utilizing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to simultaneously characterize decoherence channels and verify multipartite entanglement. The model is trained on synthetic noisy syndrome measurement data augmented with empirical SPAM models and applied to a 5-qubit superconducting device, where the neural network acts as a non-linear entanglement witness. Our ML model reconstructs the noise power spectral density (PSD) with 96.8% accuracy, reducing routine calibration time by 85% compared to standard T 1 / T 2 * sweeps. Furthermore, it successfully verifies genuine multipartite entanglement with a fidelity prediction of 99.1%, while requiring only 12% of the measurement bases demanded by full quantum state tomography (QST). Crucially, our methodology bypasses two distinct challenges: it drastically reduces the measurement complexity inherent in multi-qubit entanglement verification, and it inherently filters out state preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors without requiring noise-amplifying matrix inversions. These numerical results demonstrate that ML-assisted protocols provide a highly resource-efficient pathway for the characterization of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices.