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Run a LightStim circuit through the simulation pipeline and extract logical error rates. Use this skill whenever the user asks to simulate a circuit, get LER vs physical error rate, run PyMatching or BPOSD or MWPF decoding, sweep noise parameters, benchmark a code's threshold, plot logical error rates, configure post-selection (for state injection or distillation), or target specific logical observables in a multi-qubit circuit.

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What the file says

# Simulate and Decode

Takes a noisy `stim.Circuit` and runs it through `SimulationPipeline`.

## Step 0: Get a noisy circuit

```python
# From CircuitBuilder (custom protocol):
noisy = builder.build_noisy_circuit(NoiseConfig(p_2q=1e-3, p_meas=1e-3), "circuit_level")

# From any experiment class:
noisy = experiment.build()  # already returns noisy circuit
```

## `SimulationPipeline` API

```python
from lightstim.simulation.decoder_backend import SimulationPipeline, DecoderConfig

pipeline = SimulationPipeline(
    decoder_config=DecoderConfig("pymatching"),  # see decoder table below
    max_errors=200,      # primary stopping criterion: stop after N logical errors
    max_shots=1_000_000, # hard cap on total shots
    batch_size=10_000,   # shots per batch
    num_workers=4,       # parallel CPU processes
    print_progress=False,
)
stats = pipeline.run(noisy_circuit)

print(stats.logical_error_rate)    # errors / post_selected_shots
print(stats.ler_error_bar())       # 95% Wilson CI half-width (z=1.96)
print(stats.ler_error_bar(z=1.0))  # 1-sigma half-width
print(stats.shots)                 # total shots attempted
…

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Source

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qutone/lightstim · 50 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main

API

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