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title: qiskit-ibm-transpiler
summary: AI-powered quantum circuit optimization library — Ranking 3rd in Unitary Foundation 2025 Survey, 929K+ downloads
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- Quantum Computing
- AI
- Open Source
- Reinforcement Learning
date: "2025-03-01T00:00:00Z"

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  name: Blog
  url: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/ai-transpiler-passes
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  name: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-ibm-transpiler
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  name: Docs
  url: https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/transpile/qiskit-ibm-transpiler
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  name: Models
  url: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qiskit/qiskit-ai-transpiler-models

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AI-powered quantum circuit optimization that outperforms traditional heuristics. Uses reinforcement learning to achieve near-optimal synthesis of Linear Function, Clifford, and Permutation circuits—orders of magnitude faster than SAT solvers. Our Pauli Network synthesis delivers over 2× reduction in two-qubit gate count, with average improvements of 20% and up to 60% on the Benchpress benchmark.

Supports hardware-aware routing up to 133 qubits and works as a drop-in replacement for standard Qiskit transpilation. Available as both local execution (with our open-source RL models) and cloud-based services.

**Achievements:**
- [#3 in Unitary Foundation 2025 Survey](https://unitaryfoundation.github.io/survey-2025/#full-stack-development-platforms-compilers-and-simulators-used-currently-or-in-the-future) (full-stack platforms)
- [#4 in Unitary Fund 2024 Survey](https://unitaryfoundation.github.io/survey-2024/#full-stack-development-platforms-compilers-and-simulators-used-currently-or-in-the-future) (after just 1 year public)
- [929K+ downloads](https://pepy.tech/projects/qiskit-ibm-transpiler) • 56 releases • Apache 2.0