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Humans, Agents, and Shor: Open Autoresearch for Quantum Circuit Optimization

Name: Humans, Agents, and Shor: Open Autoresearch for Quantum Circuit Optimization
Start: 2026-10-17T16:00:00.000Z

Sat, Oct 17 · 12:00 p.m.EDT

TBA · Washington

Date and time: Oct 17 2026 Noon - 14:00 EDT ( 18:00 - 20:00 CET) Title: Humans, Agents, and Shor: Open Autoresearch for Quantum Circuit Optimization Abstract: What happens when a hard scientific opti…

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Date and time: Oct 17 2026 Noon - 14:00 EDT ( 18:00 - 20:00 CET)

Title: Humans, Agents, and Shor: Open Autoresearch for Quantum Circuit Optimization

Abstract:

What happens when a hard scientific optimization problem is opened up to a community of humans and AI agents, with every proposed improvement checked automatically? In this talk, Dr. Bartosz Naskrecki will present ECDSA.

Fail, an open effort to optimize the reversible secp256k1 point-addition circuit that forms a key bottleneck in Shor’s algorithm for attacking elliptic-curve cryptography.

Using a public evaluator, repository, and leaderboard, participants reduced the benchmark’s qubit–Toffoli product by 86.1%, reaching 1,151 logical qubits and about 1.30 million executed Toffoli gates at the paper’s cutoff. Dr.

Naskrecki will highlight several of the circuit ideas behind this progress, including new approaches to reversible modular inversion, transcript compression, register sharing, and specialized arithmetic.

More broadly, Dr.