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Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) enables collaborative training of a Quantum Machine Learning (QML) model among multiple clients possessing quantum computing capabilities, without the need to share their respective local data. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Yanqi Song , Yusen Wu , Shengyao Wu , Dandan Li , Qiaoyan Wen , Sujuan Qin , Fei Gao

The efficient optimization of variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) is critical for their successful application in quantum computing. The Quantum Natural Gradient (QNG) method, which leverages the geometry of quantum state space, has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Mourad Halla

In Federated Learning (FL) client devices connected over the internet collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with a central server or with other clients. The seminal Federated Averaging (FedAvg)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min

Quantum federated learning (QFL) emerges as a powerful technique that combines quantum computing with federated learning to efficiently process complex data across distributed quantum devices while ensuring data privacy in quantum networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Ratun Rahman , Shaba Shaon , Dinh C. Nguyen

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) offers a promising framework to train quantum models across distributed clients while keeping data strictly local. Due to its simplicity and low communication overhead, Federated Averaging (FedAvg) is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hoang M. Ngo , Quan Nguyen , Wanli Xing , My T. Thai

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) has gained significant attention due to quantum computing and machine learning advancements. As the demand for QFL continues to surge, there is a pressing need to comprehend its intricacies in distributed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Gang Li

The privacy in classical federated learning can be breached through the use of local gradient results combined with engineered queries to the clients. However, quantum communication channels are considered more secure because a measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Ammar Daskin

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) enables distributed training of Quantum Machine Learning (QML) models by sharing model gradients instead of raw data. However, these gradients can still expose sensitive user information. To enhance privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Lukas Böhm , Arjhun Swaminathan , Anika Hannemann , Erik Buchmann

Client heterogeneity poses significant challenges to the performance of Quantum Federated Learning (QFL). To overcome these limitations, we propose a new approach leveraging deep unfolding, which enables clients to autonomously optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Shanika Iroshi Nanayakkara , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Federated learning (FL) enables geographically dispersed edge devices (i.e., clients) to learn a global model without sharing the local datasets, where each client performs gradient descent with its local data and uploads the gradients to a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Heting Liu , Fang He , Guohong Cao

Variational quantum algorithms, optimized using gradient-based methods, often exhibit sub-optimal convergence performance due to their dependence on Euclidean geometry. Quantum natural gradient descent (QNGD) is a more efficient method that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Mohammad Aamir Sohail , Mohsen Heidari , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Federated learning is a machine learning approach that enables multiple devices (i.e., agents) to train a shared model cooperatively without exchanging raw data. This technique keeps data localized on user devices, ensuring privacy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Dimitrios Kritsiolis , Constantine Kotropoulos

This work presents vQFL (vehicular Quantum Federated Learning), a new framework that leverages quantum machine learning techniques to tackle key privacy and security issues in autonomous vehicular networks. Furthermore, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

The rapid growth of industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems has created new challenges for anomaly detection in high-dimensional, multivariate time-series, where privacy, scalability, and communication efficiency are critical.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Kuan-Cheng Chen , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Chen-Yu Liu , Kin K. Leung

In recent years, the field of quantum science has attracted significant interest across various disciplines, including quantum machine learning, quantum communication, and quantum computing. Among these emerging areas, quantum federated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Won Joon Yun , Hankyul Baek , Joongheon Kim

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving and distributed training method using heterogeneous data sets stored at local devices. Federated learning over wireless networks requires aggregating locally computed gradients at a server where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Seunghoon Lee , Chanho Park , Song-Nam Hong , Yonina C. Eldar , Namyoon Lee

Quantum federated learning (QFL) has been recently introduced to enable a distributed privacy-preserving quantum machine learning (QML) model training across quantum processors (clients). Despite recent research efforts, existing QFL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Atit Pokharel , Ratun Rahman , Thomas Morris , Dinh C. Nguyen

Deep learning has been shown to be able to recognize data patterns better than humans in specific circumstances or contexts. In parallel, quantum computing has demonstrated to be able to output complex wave functions with a few number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Junhua Liu , Kwan Hui Lim , Kristin L. Wood , Wei Huang , Chu Guo , He-Liang Huang

We consider the Quantum Natural Gradient Descent (QNGD) scheme which was recently proposed to train variational quantum algorithms. QNGD is Steepest Gradient Descent (SGD) operating on the complex projective space equipped with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Touheed Anwar Atif , Uchenna Chukwu , Jesse Berwald , Raouf Dridi

Inspired by the power of large language models (LLMs), our research adapts them to quantum federated learning (QFL) to boost efficiency and performance. We propose a federated fine-tuning method that distills an LLM within QFL, allowing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel