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"\n",
"\n",
"META READING · Difficulty 1/10 · Notebook-level rule, objective, or usage guidance.\n",
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\n",
"\n",
"# Hardware-Aware Redesign Studio Problems\n"
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"\n",
"\n",
"META READING · Difficulty 1/10 · Official walkthrough guardrail.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"\n",
"## Mainline Navigation\n",
"\n",
"Step 49 of 59. Follow the official walkthrough in order.\n",
"\n",
"Previous notebook: [Hardware-Aware Redesign Studio Lab](lab.ipynb)\n",
"\n",
"Next notebook: [Hardware-Aware Redesign Studio Studio](studio.ipynb)\n",
"\n",
"Rule: complete the mandatory cells in this notebook before you open the next one.\n"
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"metadata": {},
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"\n",
"\n",
"META READING · Difficulty 1/10 · Notebook-level rule, objective, or usage guidance.\n",
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\n",
"\n",
"These problems check whether you can turn compile evidence into design judgement instead of stopping at surface observations.\n"
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"\n",
"\n",
"META READING · Difficulty 1/10 · Notebook-level rule, objective, or usage guidance.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## How To Use This Notebook\n",
"\n",
"\n",
" Prefer answers that locate cost in structure and keep the objective stable. Reject answers that talk about hardware awareness as though it were a mood instead of a concrete constraint-and-redesign practice.\n"
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"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY SETUP · Difficulty 1/10 · Environment, import, or helper cell required by the notebook.\n",
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\n"
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"cell_type": "code",
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"from pathlib import Path\n",
"import sys\n",
"\n",
"project_root = Path.cwd().resolve()\n",
"while not (project_root / \"pyproject.toml\").exists():\n",
" if project_root.parent == project_root:\n",
" raise RuntimeError(\"Could not locate the project root from this notebook.\")\n",
" project_root = project_root.parent\n",
"\n",
"src_path = project_root / \"src\"\n",
"if str(src_path) not in sys.path:\n",
" sys.path.insert(0, str(src_path))\n"
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"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY EXERCISE · Difficulty 3/10 · Official walkthrough runnable or written exercise.\n",
"
\n"
],
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"from quantum_learning import (\n",
" build_demo_noise_model,\n",
" counts_to_probabilities,\n",
" draw_circuit,\n",
" editable_circuit_lab,\n",
" evidence_checklist,\n",
" feedback_iteration_panel,\n",
" line_coupling_map,\n",
" load_assessment_blueprint,\n",
" plot_counts,\n",
" plot_probabilities,\n",
" quiz_block,\n",
" reflection_box,\n",
" rubric_scorecard,\n",
" simulate_counts,\n",
" statevector_probabilities,\n",
" step_reference_table,\n",
" transpile_summary,\n",
")\n",
"from qiskit import QuantumCircuit\n",
"from qiskit.providers.basic_provider import BasicSimulator\n"
],
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"META READING · Difficulty 1/10 · Notebook-level rule, objective, or usage guidance.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## Constraint Reading\n",
"\n",
"Treat these questions as miniature review situations rather than as trivia. The correct answer should survive a serious engineering conversation.\n"
],
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{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {
"ql_injected": "badge",
"ql_track": "mandatory",
"ql_role": "test"
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"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY TEST · Difficulty 3/10 · Official walkthrough multiple-choice test.\n",
"
\n"
],
"id": "12ac9357"
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{
"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": null,
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"quiz_block([{'prompt': 'Which question belongs first in a hardware-aware review?', 'options': ['Which interactions in the abstract circuit stress the stated topology?', 'Which color theme does the notebook use?', 'How many markdown cells are present?'], 'correct_index': 0, 'explanation': 'Redesign starts with locating the structural source of cost.'}, {'prompt': 'Why is a coupling map a design object here?', 'options': ['Because it changes what circuit structure is cheap, awkward, or compiler-rescued', 'Because it determines the correct measurement result directly', 'Because it replaces basis gates'], 'correct_index': 0, 'explanation': 'The topology reshapes the engineering trade space.'}], heading='Constraint Reading')\n"
],
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"META READING · Difficulty 1/10 · Notebook-level rule, objective, or usage guidance.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## Compiler Versus Designer\n",
"\n",
"Treat these questions as miniature review situations rather than as trivia. The correct answer should survive a serious engineering conversation.\n"
],
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"ql_injected": "badge",
"ql_track": "mandatory",
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"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY TEST · Difficulty 3/10 · Official walkthrough multiple-choice test.\n",
"
\n"
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"cell_type": "code",
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"quiz_block([{'prompt': 'What is the weak attitude this module opposes?', 'options': ['The transpiler will fix everything, so I do not need to read the compiled circuit', 'I should compare alternative layouts', 'I should measure cost with the same constraints across candidates'], 'correct_index': 0, 'explanation': 'Passive trust in compilation is not hardware-aware design.'}, {'prompt': 'What is a strong reason to inspect `depth_after` and `ops_after` together?', 'options': ['They tell a more complete story about route-induced structural cost', 'They are interchangeable numbers', 'They eliminate the need to see the compiled circuit'], 'correct_index': 0, 'explanation': 'Multiple metrics help connect design moves to concrete burden.'}], heading='Compiler Versus Designer')\n"
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY READING · Difficulty 2/10 · Official walkthrough reading cell.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## Manual Alternatives\n",
"\n",
"Treat these questions as miniature review situations rather than as trivia. The correct answer should survive a serious engineering conversation.\n"
],
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"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY TEST · Difficulty 3/10 · Official walkthrough multiple-choice test.\n",
"
\n"
],
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"quiz_block([{'prompt': 'What makes a manual alternative worth keeping?', 'options': ['It preserves the objective while reducing avoidable compile-time pressure', 'It simply has fewer lines of Python', 'It hides more logic inside helpers'], 'correct_index': 0, 'explanation': 'The best redesigns keep behavior while improving structural fit.'}, {'prompt': 'Why might a middle-root GHZ be better than a star-root GHZ on a line?', 'options': ['Because the central qubit can reach both sides with less routing strain', 'Because middle qubits are more quantum', 'Because it avoids measurement entirely'], 'correct_index': 0, 'explanation': 'Positioning the root can align the abstract circuit with the topology.'}], heading='Manual Alternatives')\n"
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"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY READING · Difficulty 2/10 · Official walkthrough reading cell.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## Review Language\n",
"\n",
"Treat these questions as miniature review situations rather than as trivia. The correct answer should survive a serious engineering conversation.\n"
],
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"ql_track": "mandatory",
"ql_role": "test"
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"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY TEST · Difficulty 3/10 · Official walkthrough multiple-choice test.\n",
"
\n"
],
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{
"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": null,
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"quiz_block([{'prompt': 'Which review statement is strongest?', 'options': ['The abstract layout asks one qubit to talk nonlocally to two distant neighbors, so the compile cost is largely self-created', 'The transpiler output is ugly', 'The circuit should use more barriers'], 'correct_index': 0, 'explanation': 'Good review language names the structural reason for the cost.'}, {'prompt': 'What should support a final redesign claim?', 'options': ['Stable constraints, candidate metrics, and a narrative linking the better structure to those numbers', 'Only personal preference', 'Only the ideal-state intuition'], 'correct_index': 0, 'explanation': 'A redesign recommendation should be evidence-backed and constraint-aware.'}], heading='Review Language')\n"
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"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY READING · Difficulty 2/10 · Official walkthrough reading cell.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## Mini Case\n",
"\n",
"\n",
" A weak hardware-aware notebook often has the right ingredients but the wrong posture. It shows an abstract circuit, a compiled circuit, and maybe a couple of metrics, but it never really asks whether the original layout was a wise thing to ask of the hardware in the first place. This problems notebook pushes against that passivity. The point is not to admire compiler output. The point is to decide whether a human should have designed differently.\n"
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY READING · Difficulty 2/10 · Official walkthrough reading cell.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## What These Questions Are Really Testing\n",
"\n",
"The multiple-choice format is only the surface. Underneath it, the notebook is testing whether you can preserve the right burdens while the wording shifts. If your understanding is strong, a changed phrase still points you back to the same structure, constraint, invariant, or recommendation logic. If your understanding is weak, the wording change will tempt you into vague or prestige-based answers. That is why these problem sets matter.\n"
],
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY READING · Difficulty 2/10 · Official walkthrough reading cell.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## Common Failure Mode\n",
"\n",
"A common failure mode in advanced notebook work is broad correctness with local vagueness. A learner says something true at a high level, yet still fails to name what this particular workflow, redesign, diagnosis, or recommendation is actually doing. The problems notebook is meant to squeeze that vagueness out. It prefers circuit-specific or review-specific sentences over vague correctness.\n"
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY READING · Difficulty 2/10 · Official walkthrough reading cell.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## Why Written Justification Matters\n",
"\n",
"The written prompts at the end of this notebook are not filler. They are where you prove that the right distinctions are surviving contact with your own prose. Multiple-choice blocks can tell you whether a distinction still feels recognizable. A written answer tells you whether you can actually deploy that distinction in a design note, verification memo, or review comment. Professional skill depends on that second ability.\n"
],
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{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY READING · Difficulty 2/10 · Official walkthrough reading cell.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## Written Checks\n",
"\n",
"Use the prompts below to practice full-sentence engineering judgement.\n"
],
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {
"ql_injected": "badge",
"ql_track": "mandatory",
"ql_role": "exercise"
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"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY EXERCISE · Difficulty 3/10 · Official walkthrough runnable or written exercise.\n",
"
\n"
],
"id": "4304ae2c"
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"source": [
"reflection_box('Explain why a topology-aware alternative is not automatically better unless the objective is kept stable.')\n"
],
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"ql_track": "mandatory",
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"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY EXERCISE · Difficulty 3/10 · Official walkthrough runnable or written exercise.\n",
"
\n"
],
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"execution_count": null,
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"source": [
"reflection_box('Describe the minimum evidence you would want before accepting a hardware-aware redesign recommendation.')\n"
],
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {
"ql_injected": "badge",
"ql_track": "mandatory",
"ql_role": "exercise"
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"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY EXERCISE · Difficulty 3/10 · Official walkthrough runnable or written exercise.\n",
"
\n"
],
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"feedback_iteration_panel(title='Hardware-Aware Redesign Studio Problem-Set Review Loop', prompt='After the quizzes, write the claim you now trust most, the evidence pattern behind it, the phrasing that still feels weak, and the next rewrite you owe yourself.')\n"
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"ql_track": "mandatory",
"ql_role": "exercise"
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"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY EXERCISE · Difficulty 3/10 · Official walkthrough runnable or written exercise.\n",
"
\n"
],
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"cell_type": "code",
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"assessment_blueprint = load_assessment_blueprint()\n",
"rubric_scorecard(\n",
" assessment_blueprint.get_rubric('module_self_review'),\n",
" title='Hardware-Aware Redesign Studio Problem Self-Grading',\n",
")\n"
],
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"MANDATORY READING · Difficulty 2/10 · Official walkthrough reading cell.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## Exit Condition\n",
"\n",
"\n",
" Move on when you can name the structural source of compile cost and propose a plausible human-aware alternative under fixed constraints.\n"
],
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{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"META READING · Difficulty 1/10 · Official walkthrough guardrail.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"\n",
"## What To Open Next\n",
"\n",
"Next notebook: [Hardware-Aware Redesign Studio Studio](studio.ipynb)\n",
"\n",
"Official walkthrough rule: once every mandatory cell above is complete, open the next notebook. Anything below this cell is facultative.\n"
],
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"ql_injected": "facultative_zone",
"ql_track": "meta",
"ql_role": "reading",
"ql_difficulty": 1,
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"\n",
"\n",
"META READING · Difficulty 1/10 · Optional-zone boundary. The official walkthrough is already complete above.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"\n",
"## Facultative Extension Zone\n",
"\n",
"You have already completed the mandatory walkthrough for **Hardware-Aware Redesign Studio Problems**. Everything below is optional. Use it only if you want deeper consolidation or extra transfer work.\n"
],
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"ql_track": "facultative",
"ql_role": "reading",
"ql_difficulty": 4,
"ql_note": "Optional extension reading."
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"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"FACULTATIVE READING · Difficulty 4/10 · Optional extension reading.\n",
"
\n",
"\n",
"## Facultative Extension Reading\n",
"\n",
"Use this optional problems extension only if you want stronger diagnostic habits. In **Hardware-Aware Redesign Studio Problems**, the useful move is not just to know the right answer; it is to record which wrong answer tempted you and what that says about your current mental model.\n"
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"ql_track": "facultative",
"ql_role": "test"
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"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"FACULTATIVE TEST · Difficulty 5/10 · Optional multiple-choice extension.\n",
"
\n"
],
"id": "a4d26d74"
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{
"cell_type": "code",
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"metadata": {
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"source_hidden": true
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"quiz_block([{'prompt': 'Why revisit a missed question in a facultative problems block?', 'options': ['To name the specific misconception that produced the miss', 'To memorize the right option letter only', 'To skip written explanation entirely'], 'correct_index': 0, 'explanation': 'The value is diagnostic precision, not rote recovery.'}, {'prompt': 'What should an optional error log contain?', 'options': ['The tempting wrong model and the corrected model', 'Only the final score', 'Only the notebook path'], 'correct_index': 0, 'explanation': 'The error log is useful when it captures the broken idea, not just the result.'}], heading='Facultative Extension Test')\n"
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"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {
"ql_injected": "badge",
"ql_track": "facultative",
"ql_role": "exercise"
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"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"FACULTATIVE EXERCISE · Difficulty 6/10 · Optional written exercise.\n",
"
\n"
],
"id": "f31d58d6"
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"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": null,
"metadata": {
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"source_hidden": true
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"source": [
"reflection_box('Name one tempting wrong answer pattern from Hardware-Aware Redesign Studio Problems and write the shortest correction that would stop you from repeating it.')\n"
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