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Over the past decade, machine learning revolutionized vision-based quality assessment for which convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have now become the standard. In this paper, we consider a potential next step in this development and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Barry D. Reese , Marek Kowalik , Christian Metzl , Christian Bauckhage , Eldar Sultanow

The growing complexity and scale of image processing tasks challenge classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with high computational costs. Hybrid quantum-classical convolutional neural networks (HQCNNs) show potential to improve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Kwok-Ho Ng , Tingting Song , Zhiquan Liu

Equivariant quantum neural networks (QNNs) are promising variational models that exploit symmetries to improve machine learning capabilities. Despite theoretical developments in equivariant QNNs, their implementation on near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Koki Chinzei , Quoc Hoan Tran , Yasuhiro Endo , Hirotaka Oshima

Image classification is an important task in various machine learning applications. In recent years, a number of classification methods based on quantum machine learning and different quantum image encoding techniques have been proposed. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Denny Mattern , Darya Martyniuk , Henri Willems , Fabian Bergmann , Adrian Paschke

Recently, quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) are proposed, harnessing the power of quantum computing for faster training compared to the classical counterparts. However, this framework for deep learning also relies on multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Yifan Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Classification using variational quantum circuits is a promising frontier in quantum machine learning. Quantum supervised learning (QSL) applied to classical data using variational quantum circuits involves embedding the data into a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yujin Kim , Changjae Im , Taehyun Kim , Tak Hur , Daniel K. Park

Hybrid quantum-classical machine learning offers a promising direction for advancing automated quality control in industrial settings. In this study, we investigate two hybrid quantum-classical approaches for classifying defects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Akshaya Srinivasan , Xiaoyin Cheng , Jianming Yi , Alexander Geng , Desislava Ivanova , Andreas Weinmann , Ali Moghiseh

The quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN) is a promising quantum machine learning (QML) model that is expected to achieve quantum advantages in classically intractable problems. However, the QCNN requires a large number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Koki Chinzei , Quoc Hoan Tran , Kazunori Maruyama , Hirotaka Oshima , Shintaro Sato

Hierarchical quantum classifiers, such as quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs), represent recent progress toward designing effective and feasible architectures for quantum classification. However, their performance on near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Taehyun Kim , Israel F. Araujo , Daniel K. Park

Accurate classification of microscopic blood cells is still a critical task in medical image analysis, where subtle variations and limited data can challenge conventional deep learning models. As such, we investigate in this work the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Guilherme Cruz , Nouhaila Innan , Alberto Marchisio , Gabriel Falcao , Muhammad Shafique

The rapid growth of computer vision and increasingly complex image recognition tasks has exposed fundamental computational limitations of classical machine learning models, motivating the exploration of quantum computing as an emerging new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sudip Vhaduri , Ryan Gammon , Sayanton Dibbo

Classical max pooling plays a crucial role in reducing data dimensionality among various well-known deep learning models, yet it often leads to the loss of vital information. We proposed a novel hybrid quantum downsampling module (HQD),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Yifeng Peng , Xinyi Li , Zhiding Liang , Ying Wang

Well-known quantum machine learning techniques, namely quantum kernel assisted support vector machines (QSVMs) and quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs), are applied to the binary classification of pulsars. In this comparitive study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Donovan Slabbert , Matt Lourens , Francesco Petruccione

In this paper, we propose a new methodology to design quantum hybrid diffusion models, derived from classical U-Nets with ResNet and Attention layers. Specifically, we propose two possible different hybridization schemes combining quantum…

Classical machine learning often struggles with complex, high-dimensional data. Quantum machine learning offers a potential solution, promising more efficient processing. The quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN), a hybrid algorithm,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Hinako Asaoka , Kazue Kudo

Model compression, such as pruning and quantization, has been widely applied to optimize neural networks on resource-limited classical devices. Recently, there are growing interest in variational quantum circuits (VQC), that is, a type of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Zhirui Hu , Peiyan Dong , Zhepeng Wang , Youzuo Lin , Yanzhi Wang , Weiwen Jiang

Neural network-based algorithms have garnered considerable attention in condensed matter physics for their ability to learn complex patterns from very high dimensional data sets towards classifying complex long-range patterns of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Ian MacCormack , Conor Delaney , Alexey Galda , Nidhi Aggarwal , Prineha Narang

Quantum Machine Learning continues to be a highly active area of interest within Quantum Computing. Many of these approaches have adapted classical approaches to the quantum settings, such as QuantumFlow, etc. We push forward this trend and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Samuel A. Stein , Ying Mao , James Ang , Ang Li

Quantum machine learning has emerged as a promising approach to improve feature extraction and classification tasks in high-dimensional data domains such as medical imaging. In this work, we present a hybrid Quantum-Classical Convolutional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Ece Yurtseven

In recent years, deep learning has had a profound impact on machine learning and artificial intelligence. At the same time, algorithms for quantum computers have been shown to efficiently solve some problems that are intractable on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 Nathan Wiebe , Ashish Kapoor , Krysta M. Svore