diff --git a/mitiq/schema/technique_schema/ddd_schema.json b/mitiq/schema/technique_schema/ddd_schema.json
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+{
+    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+    "title": "DDD Schema",
+    "description": "Schema for defining a DDD implementation, to potentially be used as a sub-schema in larger QEM-schema",
+    "type": "object",
+    "required": ["rule"],
+    "properties": {
+        "technique": {
+            "description": "Technique name, this is reuqired when composing techniques",
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": ["ddd"]
+        },
+
+        "observable": {
+            "description": "Observable to compute the expectation value of. If None, the executor must return an expectation value",
+            "type": "object"
+        },
+        
+
+        "rule": {
+            "description": "Method used to make the cirucit more sensitive to noise, takes circuit and scale factors as inputm, returns new circuit that is theoretically equivalent but practically noisier",
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": ["xx", "yy", "xyxy", "general", "repeated", "custom"]
+        },
+
+        "rule_args": {
+            "description": " An optional dictionary of keyword arguments for rule (if using rule not in ['xx', 'yy', 'xyxy'])",
+            "type": "object"
+        },
+
+        "num_trials": {
+            "description": "Number of independent experiments to average over. A number larger than 1 can be useful to average over multiple applications of a rule returning non-deterministic DDD sequences",
+            "type": "integer"
+
+        },
+
+        "full_output":{
+            "description": "Whether to return the full output of the DDD rule, or just the mitigated expectation value",
+            "type": "boolean"
+        }
+    },
+    "additionalProperties": false
+}
diff --git a/mitiq/schema/technique_schema/pec_schema.json b/mitiq/schema/technique_schema/pec_schema.json
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+{
+    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+    "title": "PEC Schema",
+    "description": "Schema for defining a PEC implementation, to potentially be used as a sub-schema in larger QEM-schema",
+    "type": "object",
+    "properties": {
+        "technique": {
+            "description": "Technique name, this is reuqired when composing techniques",
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": ["pec"]
+        },
+
+        "operation_representations": {
+            "description": "Representations of the ideal gates in the circuit, expressed as a linear combination of noisy gates",
+            "type": "array",
+            "items": {}
+        },
+
+        "observable": {
+            "description": "Observable to compute the expectation value of. If None, the executor must return an expectation value"
+        },
+
+        "precision": {
+            "description": "The desired estimation precision (assuming the observable is bounded by 1), ignored if num_samples is given",
+            "type": "number",
+            "minimum": 0
+        },
+
+        "num_samples": {
+            "description": "The number of noisy circuits to be sampled for PEC. If not given, deduced from the precision",
+            "type": "integer",
+            "minimum": 1
+        },
+
+        "force_run_all": {
+            "description": "If True, all sampled circuits are executed regardless of uniqueness, else a minimal unique set is executed",
+            "type": "boolean"
+        },
+
+        "random_state": {
+            "description": "Seed for sampling circuits",
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+
+        "full_output": {
+            "description": "If False only the average PEC value is returned. If True a dictionary containing all PEC data is returned too",
+            "type": "boolean"
+        }
+
+    },
+    "additionalProperties": false
+}
diff --git a/mitiq/schema/technique_schema/rem_schema.json b/mitiq/schema/technique_schema/rem_schema.json
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+{
+    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+    "title": "REM Schema",
+    "description": "Schema for defining an REM implementation",
+    "type": "object",
+    "properties": {
+        "technique": {
+            "description": "Technique name, this is reuqired when composing techniques",
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": ["rem"]
+        },
+
+        "observable": {
+            "description": "Observable to compute the expectation value of",
+            "type": "object"
+        },
+
+        "inverse_confusion_matrix": {
+            "description": "The inverse confusion matrix to apply to the probability vector estimated with noisy measurement results.",
+            "type": "array",
+            "items": {
+                "type": "number"
+            }
+        },
+    "additionalProperties": false
+    }
+}
diff --git a/mitiq/schema/technique_schema/zne_schema.json b/mitiq/schema/technique_schema/zne_schema.json
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+{
+    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+    "title": "ZNE Schema",
+    "description": "Schema for defining a ZNE implementation, to potentially be used as a sub-schema in larger QEM-schema",
+    "type": "object",
+    "properties": {
+        "technique": {
+            "description": "Technique name, this is reuqired when composing techniques",
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": ["zne"]
+        },
+
+        "noise_scaling_factors": {
+            "description": "Real scale factors used in the Factory for extrapolating to zero noise case, one for each point that is to be extrapolated",
+            "type": "array",
+            "items": {
+                "type": "number"
+            }
+        },
+
+        "noise_scaling_method": {
+            "description": "Method used to make the cirucit more sensitive to noise, takes circuit and scale factors as inputm, returns new circuit that is theoretically equivalent but practically noisier",
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": ["global", "local_random", "local_all", "layer", "identity_scaling"]
+        },
+
+        "scale_factor": {
+            "description": "Indicates how many times to fold the input circuit according to the noise_scaling_method, folded circuit will have number of gates approximately equal to scale_factor * len(circuit)",
+            "type": "number"
+        },
+
+        "extrapolation": {
+            "description": "Method used to extrapolate the noise scaling factors to points not in the original set",
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": ["linear", "richardson", "polynomial", "exponential", "poly-exp", "adaptive-exp"]
+        }
+    },
+    "additionalProperties": false
+}
diff --git a/mitiq/schema/validation_utils.py b/mitiq/schema/validation_utils.py
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+import json
+import jsonschema
+from jsonschema import validate
+
+
+def load(schema_path):
+    with open(schema_path, 'r') as file:
+        return json.load(file)
+    
+
+def validate_experiment(experiment, schema):
+    try:
+        validate(instance=experiment, schema=schema)
+        print("expertiment validation passed")
+    except jsonschema.exceptions.ValidationError as e:
+        print("experiment validation failed")
+    return None
+