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[[154,8,17]] d ≤
n
154
k
8
d
17
kd²/n
15.013
w
8
X/Z
1

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Distance

X/Z asymmetry 1 · d_X ≤ 17, d_Z ≤ 17 · w_X = 8, w_Z = 8 (max(d_X,d_Z)/min(d_X,d_Z); each side carries its own earned tier: = certified exact, ≤ witness upper bound)
d_X 17 · witness weight 17 (claimed upper_bound)
witness operator (support, 17 qubits)
[1, 4, 6, 11, 38, 50, 74, 77, 82, 83, 84, 98, 106, 121, 125, 137, 144]
d_Z 17 · witness weight 17 (claimed upper_bound)
witness operator (support, 17 qubits)
[4, 11, 19, 24, 32, 33, 48, 55, 63, 65, 71, 72, 95, 97, 107, 115, 124]
certificate none yet · distance stands as a self-certified upper bound (d ≤)

Diagnostics

computed by the verifier from the parity checks, the layout, and the stored witnesses; shown as evidence, not used for ranking
girth H_X 6 · H_Z 6 (shortest cycle of each side’s Tanner graph; longer is friendlier to belief propagation)
check weights H_X 8 · H_Z 8
qubit degrees H_X 4 · H_Z 4
trapping sets H_X (1,4)×154 (2,6)×2156 (3,6)×1771 (smallest syndrome weight at each size, connected sets of up to 3 qubits)
full (size, syndrome weight): count census for H_X
(1,4): 154 (2,6): 2156 (3,6): 1771 (3,8): 39963 (3,10): 4312
trapping sets H_Z (1,4)×154 (2,6)×2156 (3,6)×1771 (smallest syndrome weight at each size, connected sets of up to 3 qubits)
full (size, syndrome weight): count census for H_Z
(1,4): 154 (2,6): 2156 (3,6): 1771 (3,8): 39963 (3,10): 4312

Construction & provenance

authors @mathysrennela
provenance submitted through the challenge
novelty novelty not audited
construction Bivariate bicycle on Z_11 x Z_7; A=[(7,0),(5,6),(9,2),(4,5)]; B=[(8,3),(4,4),(9,0),(9,5)].
model GPT-5.6 Luna (claimed, not verified)
date 2026-08-28
notes Unattended bounded sweep; distance is a witness-backed upper bound. The trusted board gate found no equivalent existing entry and reports an advance in the weight-8 x unrestricted cell; literature novelty remains unverified.
family bivariate bicycle (a tag, not a ranking)
locality unrestricted (computed from the layout)
weight class weight ≤ 8 (computed)

How this code was found

the research note submitted with this code · raw markdown · all notes

[[154,8,17]] — bivariate-bicycle code on $\mathbb{Z}_{11} \times \mathbb{Z}_7$

Direction & hypothesis

The target was the unrestricted / weight-8 operational-efficiency frontier, using the bivariate-bicycle family. This cell has strong short-to-medium-length records, and a bounded sweep over small tori can cheaply expose new Pareto points before the trusted distance gate is applied.

What was searched

I sampled 400 candidates at each of weights 3 and 4, using research/kit/search.py::sample_bb with seeds 20260828 and 20260829. The sweep used $\mathbb{Z}_l \times \mathbb{Z}_m$ with $4 \le l \le 12$, $3 \le m \le 10$, and retained $40 \le n \le 240$. Candidates were screened with the repository RIS surrogate at 120 trials, requiring $k \ge 2$ and $d \ge 3$, then reduced to the screened Pareto frontier.

The strongest screen was the present $[[154,8,17]]$ candidate. Other validator-passing advances from the same sweep were $[[96,6,12]]$, $[[128,4,16]]$, $[[160,4,18]]$, $[[192,2,24]]$, $[[200,4,24]]$, and $[[80,4,11]]$; these are not included in this one-code submission.

Evidence trail

The submitted construction has

Z_11 x Z_7
A = [(7,0), (5,6), (9,2), (4,5)]
B = [(8,3), (4,4), (9,0), (9,5)]

The screening witness was $d \le 17$. The submission JSON contains explicit weight-17 X and Z logical witnesses. The trusted validator passed CSS, $n=154$, $k=8$, and maximum check weight 8. Its fresh refutation run found no lighter logical in 8,000 RIS trials (seed 2139770050). It reports board_advancing: true, dominated_by: [], and no WL-equivalent entry.

The precise claim is therefore a witness-backed upper bound, $d \le 17$; this is not an exact-distance certification. The operational figure is $kd^2/n = 8\cdot17^2/154 \approx 15.01$.

Dead ends

The initial broader 2,500-candidate-per-weight plan was stopped because the pure-NumPy RIS implementation was too slow at larger block lengths. The final bounded run reduced the size range and screening depth. Several high screen values collapsed under the gate: for example, screened $[[240,6,26]]$ was refuted by a weight-24 logical, and screened $[[220,2,27]]$ by a weight-25 logical. These were not promoted.

Tools

Model: GPT-5.6 Luna. Author: @mathysrennela. The harness used research/kit/bb.py, research/kit/search.py, research/kit/surrogate.py, research/kit/submit.py, and the trusted verify/validate_candidate.py gate. The final gate used its fresh 8,000-trial refutation budget.

Reproduction

The bounded sweep used the parameters above. To rebuild this code directly:

from research.kit.bb import build_bb

HX, HZ = build_bb(
    11, 7,
    [(7, 0), (5, 6), (9, 2), (4, 5)],
    [(8, 3), (4, 4), (9, 0), (9, 5)],
)

Package the resulting matrices with research/kit/submit.py; the committed JSON records the resulting witnesses and provenance.

Parity checks

X-checks 77 (max weight 8) · Z-checks 77 (max weight 8)
H_X (77 checks, sparse supports)
[33, 41, 49, 65, 109, 136, 140, 145] [34, 35, 50, 66, 110, 137, 141, 146] [28, 36, 51, 67, 111, 138, 140, 142] [29, 37, 52, 68, 105, 139, 141, 143] [30, 38, 53, 69, 106, 133, 142, 144] [31, 39, 54, 63, 107, 134, 143, 145] [32, 40, 55, 64, 108, 135, 144, 146] [40, 48, 56, 72, 116, 143, 147, 152] [41, 42, 57, 73, 117, 144, 148, 153] [35, 43, 58, 74, 118, 145, 147, 149] [36, 44, 59, 75, 112, 146, 148, 150] [37, 45, 60, 76, 113, 140, 149, 151] [38, 46, 61, 70, 114, 141, 150, 152] [39, 47, 62, 71, 115, 142, 151, 153] [2, 47, 55, 63, 77, 82, 123, 150] [3, 48, 49, 64, 78, 83, 124, 151] [4, 42, 50, 65, 77, 79, 125, 152] [5, 43, 51, 66, 78, 80, 119, 153] [6, 44, 52, 67, 79, 81, 120, 147] [0, 45, 53, 68, 80, 82, 121, 148] [1, 46, 54, 69, 81, 83, 122, 149] [9, 54, 62, 70, 80, 84, 89, 130] [10, 55, 56, 71, 81, 85, 90, 131] [11, 49, 57, 72, 82, 84, 86, 132] [12, 50, 58, 73, 83, 85, 87, 126] [13, 51, 59, 74, 77, 86, 88, 127] [7, 52, 60, 75, 78, 87, 89, 128] [8, 53, 61, 76, 79, 88, 90, 129] [0, 16, 61, 69, 87, 91, 96, 137] [1, 17, 62, 63, 88, 92, 97, 138] [2, 18, 56, 64, 89, 91, 93, 139] [3, 19, 57, 65, 90, 92, 94, 133] [4, 20, 58, 66, 84, 93, 95, 134] [5, 14, 59, 67, 85, 94, 96, 135] [6, 15, 60, 68, 86, 95, 97, 136] [7, 23, 68, 76, 94, 98, 103, 144] [8, 24, 69, 70, 95, 99, 104, 145] [9, 25, 63, 71, 96, 98, 100, 146] [10, 26, 64, 72, 97, 99, 101, 140] [11, 27, 65, 73, 91, 100, 102, 141] [12, 21, 66, 74, 92, 101, 103, 142] [13, 22, 67, 75, 93, 102, 104, 143] [6, 14, 30, 75, 101, 105, 110, 151] [0, 15, 31, 76, 102, 106, 111, 152] [1, 16, 32, 70, 103, 105, 107, 153] [2, 17, 33, 71, 104, 106, 108, 147] [3, 18, 34, 72, 98, 107, 109, 148] [4, 19, 28, 73, 99, 108, 110, 149] [5, 20, 29, 74, 100, 109, 111, 150] [5, 13, 21, 37, 81, 108, 112, 117] [6, 7, 22, 38, 82, 109, 113, 118] [0, 8, 23, 39, 83, 110, 112, 114] [1, 9, 24, 40, 77, 111, 113, 115] [2, 10, 25, 41, 78, 105, 114, 116] [3, 11, 26, 35, 79, 106, 115, 117] [4, 12, 27, 36, 80, 107, 116, 118] [12, 20, 28, 44, 88, 115, 119, 124] [13, 14, 29, 45, 89, 116, 120, 125] [7, 15, 30, 46, 90, 117, 119, 121] [8, 16, 31, 47, 84, 118, 120, 122] [9, 17, 32, 48, 85, 112, 121, 123] [10, 18, 33, 42, 86, 113, 122, 124] [11, 19, 34, 43, 87, 114, 123, 125] [19, 27, 35, 51, 95, 122, 126, 131] [20, 21, 36, 52, 96, 123, 127, 132] [14, 22, 37, 53, 97, 124, 126, 128] [15, 23, 38, 54, 91, 125, 127, 129] [16, 24, 39, 55, 92, 119, 128, 130] [17, 25, 40, 49, 93, 120, 129, 131] [18, 26, 41, 50, 94, 121, 130, 132] [26, 34, 42, 58, 102, 129, 133, 138] [27, 28, 43, 59, 103, 130, 134, 139] [21, 29, 44, 60, 104, 131, 133, 135] [22, 30, 45, 61, 98, 132, 134, 136] [23, 31, 46, 62, 99, 126, 135, 137] [24, 32, 47, 56, 100, 127, 136, 138] [25, 33, 48, 57, 101, 128, 137, 139]
H_Z (77 checks, sparse supports)
[14, 16, 25, 52, 96, 105, 120, 128] [15, 17, 26, 53, 97, 106, 121, 129] [16, 18, 27, 54, 91, 107, 122, 130] [17, 19, 21, 55, 92, 108, 123, 131] [18, 20, 22, 49, 93, 109, 124, 132] [14, 19, 23, 50, 94, 110, 125, 126] [15, 20, 24, 51, 95, 111, 119, 127] [21, 23, 32, 59, 103, 112, 127, 135] [22, 24, 33, 60, 104, 113, 128, 136] [23, 25, 34, 61, 98, 114, 129, 137] [24, 26, 28, 62, 99, 115, 130, 138] [25, 27, 29, 56, 100, 116, 131, 139] [21, 26, 30, 57, 101, 117, 132, 133] [22, 27, 31, 58, 102, 118, 126, 134] [28, 30, 39, 66, 110, 119, 134, 142] [29, 31, 40, 67, 111, 120, 135, 143] [30, 32, 41, 68, 105, 121, 136, 144] [31, 33, 35, 69, 106, 122, 137, 145] [32, 34, 36, 63, 107, 123, 138, 146] [28, 33, 37, 64, 108, 124, 139, 140] [29, 34, 38, 65, 109, 125, 133, 141] [35, 37, 46, 73, 117, 126, 141, 149] [36, 38, 47, 74, 118, 127, 142, 150] [37, 39, 48, 75, 112, 128, 143, 151] [38, 40, 42, 76, 113, 129, 144, 152] [39, 41, 43, 70, 114, 130, 145, 153] [35, 40, 44, 71, 115, 131, 146, 147] [36, 41, 45, 72, 116, 132, 140, 148] [3, 42, 44, 53, 79, 124, 133, 148] [4, 43, 45, 54, 80, 125, 134, 149] [5, 44, 46, 55, 81, 119, 135, 150] [6, 45, 47, 49, 82, 120, 136, 151] [0, 46, 48, 50, 83, 121, 137, 152] [1, 42, 47, 51, 77, 122, 138, 153] [2, 43, 48, 52, 78, 123, 139, 147] [10, 49, 51, 60, 78, 86, 131, 140] [11, 50, 52, 61, 79, 87, 132, 141] [12, 51, 53, 62, 80, 88, 126, 142] [13, 52, 54, 56, 81, 89, 127, 143] [7, 53, 55, 57, 82, 90, 128, 144] [8, 49, 54, 58, 83, 84, 129, 145] [9, 50, 55, 59, 77, 85, 130, 146] [17, 56, 58, 67, 85, 93, 138, 147] [18, 57, 59, 68, 86, 94, 139, 148] [19, 58, 60, 69, 87, 95, 133, 149] [20, 59, 61, 63, 88, 96, 134, 150] [14, 60, 62, 64, 89, 97, 135, 151] [15, 56, 61, 65, 90, 91, 136, 152] [16, 57, 62, 66, 84, 92, 137, 153] [24, 63, 65, 74, 77, 92, 100, 145] [25, 64, 66, 75, 78, 93, 101, 146] [26, 65, 67, 76, 79, 94, 102, 140] [27, 66, 68, 70, 80, 95, 103, 141] [21, 67, 69, 71, 81, 96, 104, 142] [22, 63, 68, 72, 82, 97, 98, 143] [23, 64, 69, 73, 83, 91, 99, 144] [4, 31, 70, 72, 84, 99, 107, 152] [5, 32, 71, 73, 85, 100, 108, 153] [6, 33, 72, 74, 86, 101, 109, 147] [0, 34, 73, 75, 87, 102, 110, 148] [1, 28, 74, 76, 88, 103, 111, 149] [2, 29, 70, 75, 89, 104, 105, 150] [3, 30, 71, 76, 90, 98, 106, 151] [0, 2, 11, 38, 82, 91, 106, 114] [1, 3, 12, 39, 83, 92, 107, 115] [2, 4, 13, 40, 77, 93, 108, 116] [3, 5, 7, 41, 78, 94, 109, 117] [4, 6, 8, 35, 79, 95, 110, 118] [0, 5, 9, 36, 80, 96, 111, 112] [1, 6, 10, 37, 81, 97, 105, 113] [7, 9, 18, 45, 89, 98, 113, 121] [8, 10, 19, 46, 90, 99, 114, 122] [9, 11, 20, 47, 84, 100, 115, 123] [10, 12, 14, 48, 85, 101, 116, 124] [11, 13, 15, 42, 86, 102, 117, 125] [7, 12, 16, 43, 87, 103, 118, 119] [8, 13, 17, 44, 88, 104, 112, 120]
Code ID 154-8-17 · download JSON · raw on GitHub