# The Walrus **Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/thewalrus/ **Provider:** Xanadu — https://apis.io/providers/xanadu-ai/ **Documentation:** https://the-walrus.readthedocs.io The Walrus is one of 14 APIs that [Xanadu](https://apis.io/providers/xanadu-ai/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Hafnians, Gaussian Boson Sampling, and Numerical Library. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository. The Walrus is a high-performance C++/Python library for computing hafnians, loop hafnians, Hermite polynomials, and Gaussian boson sampling probabilities — the numerical backbone underpinning Xanadu's photonic simulations. ## Machine-readable artifacts (3) - **Documentation** — https://the-walrus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/XanaduAI/thewalrus - **SDKs** — https://pypi.org/project/thewalrus/ ## Other Xanadu APIs (12) - [PennyLane](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane/) - [PennyLane Catalyst](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane-catalyst/) - [PennyLane Lightning](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane-lightning/) - [PennyLane Plugins](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane-plugins/) - [PennyLane Quantum Chemistry (qchem)](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane-qchem/) - [PennyLane Datasets](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane-datasets/) - [Strawberry Fields](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/strawberry-fields/) - [MrMustard](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/mrmustard/) - [Jet](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/jet/) - [FlamingPy](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/flamingpy/) - [Blackbird Language](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/blackbird/) - [XIR](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/xir/) ## Tags Hafnians, Gaussian Boson Sampling, Numerical Library --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/thewalrus/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/xanadu-ai/.