Phase 3 · roadmap
**REAL QAOA optimizer** (PennyLane) — solves a combinatorial design QUBO on a real quantum circuit; plug in your own QUBO. Runs on a simulator now, real QC hardware pluggable. Reaches 100% of the brute-force optimum on a 6-qubit design QUBO (p=2). No speedup vs classical at this size; advantage ~8–10 yr out.
KODEX KQOPT is a fast, calibrated surrogate for fault-tolerant quantum hardware (not available this decade) — reproducing its result at inference speed, so it runs inside a real-time control loop or a design search where the full computation is far too slow to call.
One line, one contract — a prediction, its uncertainty, and whether the input is in-domain.
from kronos_ml import KQOPT
model = KQOPT() # loads the trained surrogate
y, sigma, in_domain = model.predict(x) # y = qopt prediction
if not in_domain: # out of its trusted region
fall_back_to_full_physics() # KQOPT abstains, never extrapolatesEvery KODEX code wraps the shared spine — KHALO for calibrated uncertainty and KGATE for the out-of-domain gate — so it reports how confident it is and abstains rather than extrapolate. Benchmarks are computed on held-out data with a fixed seed; pre-registered misses are kept, not hidden.
Part of the open kronos-ml package (Apache-2.0). Open-access deposits with citable DOIs are listed below.
Open-access deposits, each with a citable DOI: