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Aug 2026
Aicir: A Full-Stack Quantum Circuit Simulator with AscendNPU Support
This work developed Aicir to provide a full-stack quantum circuit simulator with a native Huawei Ascend NPU backend and validated native execution with CPU fallback disabled and checked distributed communication and gradients on 2, 4, and 8 NPUs.
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