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 \title{Fault Tolerant Quantum Error Correction}
 \subtitle{Master's Thesis Midterm Presentation}
-\author[Andreas]{Andreas Tsouchlos}
+\author[ Andreas]{Andreas Tsouchlos}
 \date[]{}
 
 \DeclareFieldFormat{note}{}
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
 
 \DeclareAcronym{qldpc}{
     short=QLDPC,
-    long=quantum low - density parity - check,
+    long=quantum low-density parity-check,
 }
 
 \DeclareAcronym{scldpc}{
@@ -1800,6 +1800,10 @@
 \subsection{The Code and Other Parameters}
 \label{subsec:The Code and Other Parameters}
 
+\begin{frame}
+    \frametitle{}
+\end{frame}
+
 \begin{frame}
     \frametitle{Performance Evaluation}
 
@@ -1972,9 +1976,9 @@
 \label{subsec:Proposed Methodology}
 
 \begin{frame}
-    \frametitle{Conclusion}
+    \frametitle{Conclusion and Outlook}
 
-    \vspace*{-15mm}
+    \vspace*{-10mm}
 
     \begin{minipage}[c]{0.65\textwidth}
         \begin{itemize}
@@ -1996,8 +2000,7 @@
             \item Parameters
                 \begin{itemize}
                     \item Use standard depolarizing noise for comparability
-                    \item Compare performance with other \ac{bb} and
+                    \item Compare performance with other \ac{bb} code decoders
-                        surface code decoders
                 \end{itemize}
         \end{itemize}
     \end{minipage}%
@@ -2007,7 +2010,7 @@
         \begin{figure}[H]
             \centering
 
-            \vspace*{-15mm}
+            \vspace*{-25mm}
             \begin{tikzpicture}
                 \node[scale=10] at (0, 0)
                 {\textcolor{kit-blue}{{\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont ?}}};
@@ -2027,7 +2030,7 @@
 \begin{frame}
     \frametitle{System Level Overview}
 
-    \vspace*{-15mm}
+    \vspace*{-10mm}
 
     \begin{figure}[H]
         \centering
@@ -2092,7 +2095,7 @@
         \end{subfigure}
     \end{figure}
 
-    % \vspace*{-2mm}
+    \vspace*{5mm}
 
     \addreferencesmanual
     {ZZC$^+$23}{
@@ -2111,11 +2114,30 @@
 \begin{frame}
     \frametitle{Guided Decimation Guessing Decoding}
 
+    \begin{minipage}{0.57\textwidth}
         \begin{itemize}
-        \item \red{Explain paper}
+            \item BP guided decimation (BPGD) \\
+                $\rightarrow$ Iteratively fix most reliable variable node (VN)
+                \vspace*{10mm}
+            \item \schlagwort{Guided decimation guessing} (GDG)
+                \citereferencemanual{GCR24}
+                \begin{itemize}
+                    \item Choose VN with \schlagwort{lowest}
+                        log-likelihood ratio
+                    \item Choose VN to fix based on \schlagwort{LLR history}
+                    \item Explore both VN values in parallel
+                        (\schlagwort{guessing})
                 \end{itemize}
+        \end{itemize}
+    \end{minipage}%
+    \begin{minipage}{0.43\textwidth}
+        \begin{figure}[H]
+            \centering
+            \includegraphics[scale=1.3]{res/gdg.pdf}
+        \end{figure}
+    \end{minipage}%
 
-    \vspace*{25mm}
+    \vspace*{30mm}
 
     \addreferencesmanual
     {GCR24}{
@@ -2126,6 +2148,52 @@
     \stopreferencesmanual
 \end{frame}
 
+\begin{frame}
+    \frametitle{The Quantum Error Correcting Landscape}
+
+    \vspace*{-10mm}
+
+    \begin{itemize}
+        \item Taxonomy of main QEC code families \citereferencemanual{SPG$^+$25}
+    \end{itemize}
+
+    \vspace*{2mm}
+
+    \begin{figure}[H]
+        \centering
+        \includegraphics[scale=2.5]{res/taxonomy.pdf}
+    \end{figure}
+
+    \begin{itemize}
+        \item Surface code is the industry standard for
+            experimental implementations, but has poor encoding
+            efficiency \citereferencemanual{BCG$^+$24}
+        \item \Ac{qldpc} codes particularly interesting because of
+            \begin{itemize}
+                \item Constant overhead scaling \citereferencemanual{Got14}
+                \item Linear distance scaling \citereferencemanual{BCG$^+$24}
+            \end{itemize}
+    \end{itemize}
+
+    \vspace*{15mm}
+
+    \addreferencesmanual
+    {SPG$^+$25}{
+        A. Swierkowska et al., ``ECCentric: An Empirical
+        Analysis of Quantum Error Correction Codes'',
+        \emph{arXiv:2511.01062v1}, 2025.
+    }
+    {BCG$^+$24}{
+        S. Bravyi et al., ``High-threshold and low-overhead
+        fault-tolerant quantum memory,'' \emph{Nature}, 2024.
+    }
+    {Got14}{
+        D. Gottesman, ``Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with
+        Constant Overhead'', \emph{arXiv:1310.2984}, 2014.
+    }
+    \stopreferencesendmanual
+\end{frame}
+
 % TODO: Is this really necessary?
 % \begin{frame}
 %     \frametitle{The Quantum Error Correction Landscape}