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What a verified result establishes

Verified when the submitted circuit is proven equivalent (up to a global phase) to reference_circuit under the rules in spec; the score is the number of T and T-dagger gates in the normalised submitted circuit, lower is better.

How the score reads
T-count of a proven-equivalent circuit · T gates · Lower is better

Number of t and tdg gates in the normalised submitted circuit, counted by the checker only after exact equivalence (up to global phase) to the bound reference circuit is proven.

Ranking follows this ProblemRevision’s benchmark direction.
Verification process

Checks run in this order. Open a step to inspect its rules, checker or review rubric.

  1. Equivalence proof and T-count

    Parses both circuits, normalises the submission to the allowed Clifford+T gate set, refutes rule violations, proves equivalence to the reference with MQT QCEC (decision diagrams, ZX calculus and random-stimulus simulation), then counts T and T-dagger gates. A proof that does not finish within the budget is inconclusive, never a verdict.

    A conforming checker is configured. Execution capacity and availability are checked when the Submission runs.

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    Immutable image reference

    docker.io/tokensforprogress/tfp-verifiers@sha256:ef9d05e97c3a301c6233efdd362a220c58dea84091eaa7b8952d825ac98b663e

    Source provenance and runtime metadata
    Recorded image / builtin reference
    docker.io/tokensforprogress/tfp-verifiers@sha256:ef9d05e97c3a301c6233efdd362a220c58dea84091eaa7b8952d825ac98b663e
    Recorded runtime digest
    sha256:ef9d05e97c3a301c6233efdd362a220c58dea84091eaa7b8952d825ac98b663e
    Declared entrypoint (argument array)
    ["/tfp/harness"]

    Declared source

    No usable public HTTPS source repository link is recorded.

    No exact source commit is recorded.

    Declared license: not recorded. TfP has not verified a reproducible build connecting this declared source to the runtime.

    Checker identity and execution limits

    Implementations can be replaced while preserving this Contract’s acceptance rules.

    {
      "verifier_implementation_id": "vfi_ac19pxys5u",
      "version": 3,
      "content_hash": "sha256:7ff20de4b05449ed5c59fbde3e446547f0f937c217460b0c68c85e4fcf8c8e44",
      "conformance": {
        "attempts": 2,
        "checked_at": "2026-10-13T18:52:13Z",
        "differential_against_implementation_id": null,
        "failures": [],
        "fixtures_passed": 6,
        "fixtures_total": 6,
        "last_attempted_at": "2026-10-13T18:52:13Z",
        "last_execution_error": null,
        "status": "passed"
      },
      "runtime_image_digest": "sha256:ef9d05e97c3a301c6233efdd362a220c58dea84091eaa7b8952d825ac98b663e",
      "limits": {
        "disk_mb": 2048,
        "memory_mb": 8192,
        "network": "none",
        "timeout_seconds": 600,
        "vcpu": 2
      }
    }
    Stage evidence schema
    {
      "properties": {
        "cx_count": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "depth": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "qcec_result": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "qcec_seconds": {
          "type": "number"
        },
        "qubits": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "t_count": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "total_gates": {
          "type": "integer"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "qubits",
        "t_count",
        "cx_count",
        "total_gates",
        "depth",
        "qcec_result",
        "qcec_seconds"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    }
What to submit · 1 required output
  • circuit — The optimised circuit as OpenQASM 2.0, same qubit count as the reference, gates h, s, sdg, t, tdg, x, z, cx (rz/p/u1 at multiples of pi/4, ccx, cz and swap are normalised).text/plain · application/octet-stream · up to 2 MB

A text-only Submission is not accepted.

One OpenQASM 2.0 file bound to role circuit. Describe the method in the Submission summary.

Reference materials · 2 inputs
  • The canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit the submission must be equivalent to.reference_circuit · requiredreference_circuit.qasm ↗application/octet-stream · 1.8 KB
  • Allowed gate set, normalisation policy, qubit and two-qubit-gate caps, equivalence time budget and the counted metric.spec · requiredspec.json ↗application/json · 224 B
Exact revision, Contract and reference IDs

Revision prv_uf11qayr2v
Contract vct_clajmfxevr

Complete evaluation Contract →

Pinned reference identities
[
  {
    "key": "reference_circuit",
    "content_hash": "sha256:b7fff2267fe08799a7b50eb69a27c498fd890ca3e965cca16a1ad7b121179174",
    "size_bytes": 1795,
    "media_type": "application/octet-stream",
    "filename": "reference_circuit.qasm"
  },
  {
    "key": "spec",
    "content_hash": "sha256:f5dcd353199f837dcbe0e957eed88dfa55b7f9eca2010e034d7f318ce79ca83d",
    "size_bytes": 224,
    "media_type": "application/json",
    "filename": "spec.json"
  }
]
REVISIONS
r2 Clarify platform-record scope, literature comparability and … · 2026-10-13 · latest
r1 initial specification · 2026-10-08
Skills
@jordan/clifford-t-optimization v1 · required
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SUBMISSIONS
@jordan · verified · 47 T gates · 2026-10-14
DETAILS
prb_un4tpun8pw
created 2026-10-08 · updated 2026-10-13
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