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Description

  • Represent free Qiskit parameters as named f64 compiler inputs and lower a
    bounded, frontend-neutral real expression tree to Arith/Math SSA.
  • Preserve symbol identity and sharing, including equal display names with
    distinct identities, partially bound expressions, global phase, custom
    definitions, and lexical loop bindings.
  • Reconstruct one shared Qiskit Parameter per compiler input and reject
    malformed, unsupported, non-finite, excessive, or unused named inputs during
    preflight without mutating either source object.
  • Keep exact ParameterVector provenance out of this PR. The final stack item
    adds that metadata after structured-control export is in place.

The implementation uses the first-class CBit model introduced by #2158.

Closes #2067.

Stack

  1. ✨ Support symbolic Qiskit parameters #2150 — symbolic scalar parameters (this PR)
  2. ✨ Import captured Qiskit classical expressions #2175 — captured classical expressions
  3. ✨ Export structured control flow to Qiskit #2176 — structured-control export for ✨ Export structured control flow to Qiskit #2071
  4. 🐛 Export forwarded Qiskit measurement results #2177 — measurement-store export
  5. ✨ Preserve Qiskit parameter-vector provenance #2178 — parameter-vector provenance

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New Features

  • Qiskit circuit import and export now support named symbolic parameters and supported real-valued expressions.
  • Arithmetic and mathematical expressions—including trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic, power, absolute-value, and negation operations—are preserved across translation.
  • Symbolic parameters work with gate definitions, loops, modifiers, and global phase.
  • Named scalar inputs are retained for clearer program interfaces.

Bug Fixes

  • Improved validation and clear rejection of unsupported, malformed, oversized, non-finite, duplicate, and unused expressions.

Documentation

  • Updated Qiskit translation documentation and changelog with symbolic-parameter behavior and limitations.

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Qiskit import and export now support named symbolic parameters and bounded real-valued expressions. The implementation preserves symbol identity across scopes, gates, definitions, loops, and global phase. Validation rejects unsupported, malformed, oversized, or unused expressions before mutation.

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Symbolic Qiskit translation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expression contract and Qiskit adapter
bindings/mlir/qiskit/QiskitTranslation.h, bindings/mlir/qiskit/Qiskit2_5.cpp, .agent/plans/*
Parameters use recursive expression trees. The adapter normalizes and reconstructs numeric, symbolic, unary, and binary expressions with identity and size validation.
Symbolic import and validation
bindings/mlir/qiskit/QiskitImport.cpp, mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Utils/Utils.h, mlir/lib/Compiler/*
Import validates local and free symbols, creates named f64 inputs, lowers supported expressions through Arith/Math operations, and propagates bindings through circuit structures.
Symbolic export and reconstruction
bindings/mlir/qiskit/QiskitExport.cpp
Export accepts supported named f64 expression graphs, preserves shared parameter state, validates inputs, and reconstructs Qiskit parameters and global phase.
Validation, documentation, and regression coverage
test/python/test_mlir_qiskit_translation.py, docs/mlir/python_compiler_collection.md, CHANGELOG.md
Tests cover round trips, identity, expressions, custom definitions, rejection cases, runtime inputs, and source preservation. Documentation and the changelog describe the updated support.

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A new test helper is missing the repository-required docstring and may fail the lint gate; the PR is otherwise mergeable once this bounded issue is fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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Through gates and expressions, precise and light.
Shared names hop safely from start to end,
Invalid forms meet validation’s bend.
MLIR and Qiskit now dance in accord.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes and tests address issue #2067 objectives, including symbolic expressions, identity preservation, scope handling, export, validation, and failure safety.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation, tests, documentation, changelog, and planning artifacts are related to symbolic Qiskit parameter translation.
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I'll give this a thorough review and may come back with some changes; hope that is fine 😌

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Alright. I believe this is quite nice now. I mainly tried to accomplish two things:

  • reduce the complexity of the symbolic parameter handling code
  • introduce a more stable footing for attributes that belong to "our" programs

While this has made the PR quite a bit larger, I looked through all the changes now and think that this is pretty clean.
I just started one last round of refinements which should hopefully land soon.
Then this would be good to go from my side if you agree with the general direction 😌

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Alright. I believe this is quite nice now. I mainly tried to accomplish two things:

  • reduce the complexity of the symbolic parameter handling code
  • introduce a more stable footing for attributes that belong to "our" programs

While this has made the PR quite a bit larger, I looked through all the changes now and think that this is pretty clean. I just started one last round of refinements which should hopefully land soon. Then this would be good to go from my side if you agree with the general direction 😌

@munich-quantum-toolkit/mqt-cc for awareness.

Thanks a lot for the additions, really like the added MQT metadata dialect 👍

I looked through the added commits and they all look good from my side.

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really like the added MQT metadata dialect 👍

I can only second this! 😎

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Alright, 391e0a2 is the last cleanup I had in mind.
I believe this should be ready to go in now (pending green CI)!

(I hope that these PRs where we change 100+ files become less as we move towards the stable release 😅)

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Define typed discardable attributes for program-input and qubit-register names. Verify their placement, string values, and per-function uniqueness through the owning dialect.

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Replace raw mqt attribute keys with generated dialect helpers and load the metadata dialect in every compiler and translation context.

Preserve all discardable metadata through QC/QCO allocation conversions and register-shrink rewrites. Validate the shared contract while parsing QC IR.

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Remove Qiskit UUIDs from the normalized parameter representation and key import, export, and writer state by the supported unique source name.

Reject collisions across free and lexically bound parameters during preflight, including binders in separate scopes.

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Represent normalized parameters as a private variant of number, symbol, unary, and binary nodes with separate operator enums.

Construct expression nodes through factories with required operands, then remove redundant malformed-tree checks from import, export, and native Qiskit writing.

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Move the static finiteness contract into the shared QC and QCO unitary interface verifiers. Remove redundant Qiskit boundary checks while preserving source preflight and global-phase overflow protection.

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Make the operation-free MQT dialect visible to the MLIR documentation generator through OpBase.td.

Normalize the new-file license headers and record the final validation results.

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Replace the CBit source-name field and the qubit-specific metadata with one mqt.register_name contract.

Verify one function-wide namespace across inputs and registers, preserve register names through CBit lowering, and reject Qiskit name collisions before IR construction.

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Replace high-level LLVM passthrough strings with the verified mqt.entry_point attribute. Preserve it across QC/QCO and jeff conversions, then lower it to QIR passthrough metadata at the LLVM boundary.

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Add the generated MQT dialect declarations to MLIR's global header target. This ensures clean parallel builds generate MQTDialect.h.inc before compiling any dialect consumer.

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Centralize entry-point metadata access in the MQT dialect, restrict pass dependencies to produced dialects, and remove redundant namespace qualifiers where unambiguous.

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Expose the generated MQT dialect reference through the compiler collection documentation and its table of contents.

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Reference symbolic Qiskit parameters from the general MQT Compiler Collection launch entry.

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Use direct includes, designated initializers, and static file-local helpers across the symbolic Qiskit parameter changes.

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Let's get this in as soon as the CI is green 🚀

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