8th International Workshop on Quantum Compilation

About the workshop

The workshop aims to bring together researchers from quantum computing, electronic design automation, and compiler construction. Open questions that we anticipate this group to tackle include new methods for circuit synthesis, optimization, and rewriting, techniques for verifying the correctness of quantum programs, and new techniques for compiling efficient circuits and protocols regarding fault-tolerant and architecture constraints.

The main purpose of the workshop is to exchange recent ideas and research in the area of quantum compilation. Topics of interest for the workshop include:

• Compilers for quantum software
• Compilation methods for fault-tolerant quantum software
• Quantum instruction set architecture design
• Intermediate representations for quantum software
• Optimization and synthesis of quantum and reversible circuits
• Technology-aware mapping and layout methods
• Automatic code generation from classical HDL specification
• Quantum programming languages
• Optimized libraries (e.g., for arithmetic and Hamiltonian simulation)
• Benchmarking and resource estimation of quantum programs
• Software and tools for all above mentioned topics
• Quantum outreach: coding contests, tutorials, education

The workshop has no formal proceedings. Authors are invited to submit an abstract of 3–5 pages in length. Submission of tool and case-study papers are highly encouraged. Links to longer documents or source code repositories are permitted, although the referees may or may not refer to them. In case of a positive evaluation, submissions are accepted either as oral or poster presentation to be part of the workshop programme. All abstracts and papers are distributed only among the participants, but can be shared on the workshop’s website with the author’s consent.

Accepted submissions should be presented in person in Toronto — please note the workshop dates! Submissions must point out who will present the contribution if it is selected.

Submission is via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwqc26

Like in 2025, IWQC will be colocated with the International Workshop on Quantum Resource Estimation, which will take place on Monday the 21st of September.

Source and more details: https://quantum-compilers.github.io/iwqc2026/