Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
QEC lake: Data Lake for AI-Enhanced Quantum Error Correction
Aadi Patwardhan, Max de Groot, Andrei Ilinescu, Aditya Shankar, Yuandou Wang, Wenbo Sun, Floris Geerts, Rihan Hai
Abstract
Quantum error correction (QEC) experiments generate large data-sets that researchers use to train AI-based decoders. However, QEC datasets are heterogeneous, scarce, and fragmented: schemas differ across code families and hardware platforms, and datasets are scattered across incompatible repositories, hindering fair comparison. We present QEC Lake , a domain-specific data lake for quantum error correction. QEC Lake continuously crawls and refreshes open QEC datasets, produces user-configurable simulated data, generates synthetic variants from real data, and manages data and metadata for discovery, query, and reuse. The system also offers AI-assisted dataset exploration and a model-oriented data preparation pipeline that converts heterogeneous QEC data into training-ready inputs for AI models, including tree-based and tabular foundation models. In the demo, attendees ingest sources, generate new datasets, explore them through structured and natural-language interfaces, and export model-ready artifacts. In this way, we demonstrate how data management can accelerate data-driven QEC analysis, benchmarking, and model development. A video demonstrating QEC Lake's workflow can be found at https://youtu.be/V8lXy5H3e6k.