YQuantum 2026
Devpost hackathon: YQuantum 2026. Imported automatically.
- Year
- 2026
- Winning projects
- 6
- Participants
- 163
- Prize pool
- $3,400
- Platform
- Devpost
Winners
1st Place
- Piqasso tackles Cat QubitsAlice & Bob - 1st PlaceWe characterize the robustness of cat qubits to drift with the application of a PPO neural network optimization algorithm. Through this, we seek to gain a deepePython
- Quantum Queb'HackersQuantumCT x RTRC x qBraid - 1st PlaceBeyond standard heuristics: A hybrid CVRP solver using rotation-optimized clustering and hardware-ready backends to redefine logistics efficiency.Python
- Spilling the T : The Hidden Cost of Single-Qubit RotationsQuEra - 1st PlaceYQuantum 2026 Competition Track: QuEra Challenge Team Name: Calbits Shuhul Mujoo,1 Nandana Madhukara,1 Thuwaragesh Jayachandran,1 Joshua Mu,1 and Emiliano NolasPython
- Team 5AWS x State Street - 1st PlaceImplementing quantum feature augmentation based on MRU and pairwise/rotational entanglement operators to isolate nonlinear feature relationships in noisy data.Python
2nd Place
- Schrödinger's HuskyQuantumCT x RTRC x qBraid - 2nd PlaceHybrid approaches to solve capacitated vehicle routing problems (CVRPs).Python
3rd Place
- Alice and Bob YQuantum 2026 Submission - PsiteratopsAlice & Bob - 3rd PlaceWe built a benchmark framework for optimizing dissipative cat qubits under realistic hardware drift. We benchmark CMA-ES against REINFORCE across three drift scPython