APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROBABILISTIC ERROR CORRECTION OF A QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEM

Apparatus and method including a probabilistic compute element for analyzing measured quantum values and responsively adjusting error correction parameters. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a quantum controller to generate physical pulses directed to qubits on a quantum processor in response to operations specified in a quantum runtime; quantum measurement circuitry to measure quantum values associated with the qubits following completion of at least a first cycle of quantum runtime operations; and a probabilistic compute engine to analyze the one or more quantum values using inferencing and to responsively adjust a quantum error correction depth value for minimizing a number of errors to be detected on subsequent cycles of the quantum runtime.