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Despite their ever more widespread deployment throughout society, machine learning algorithms remain critically vulnerable to being spoofed by subtle adversarial tampering with their input data. The prospect of near-term quantum computers…

The high energy physics (HEP) community has a long history of dealing with large-scale datasets. To manage such voluminous data, classical machine learning and deep learning techniques have been employed to accelerate physics discovery.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Chao Zhang , Haiwang Yu , Shinjae Yoo

We present an effective application of quantum machine learning in histopathological cancer detection. The study here emphasizes two primary applications of hybrid classical-quantum Deep Learning models. The first application is to build a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Biswaraj Baral , Reek Majumdar , Bhavika Bhalgamiya , Taposh Dutta Roy

Recent studies show that neural natural language processing (NLP) models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Injected with backdoors, models perform normally on benign examples but produce attacker-specified predictions when the backdoor is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Fanchao Qi , Yuan Yao , Sophia Xu , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

While classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized image classification, the emergence of quantum computing presents new opportunities for enhancing neural network architectures. Quantum CNNs (QCNNs) leverage quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Peter Röseler , Oliver Schaudt , Helmut Berg , Christian Bauckhage , Matthias Koch

Quantum machine learning models based on parametrized quantum circuits, also called quantum neural networks (QNNs), are considered to be among the most promising candidates for applications on near-term quantum devices. Here we explore the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Chris Mingard , Jessica Pointing , Charles London , Yoonsoo Nam , Ard A. Louis

Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks (HQNNs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for near-term quantum machine learning. However, their practical performance strongly depends on design choices such as classical-to-quantum data encoding,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Muhammad Kashif , Hanzalah Mohamed Siraj , Nouhaila Innan , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

Artificial neural networks have achieved great success in many fields ranging from image recognition to video understanding. However, its high requirements for computing and memory resources have limited further development on processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Yanxuan Lü , Qing Gao , Jinhu Lü , Maciej Ogorzałek , Jin Zheng

Recently backdoor attack has become an emerging threat to the security of deep neural network (DNN) models. To date, most of the existing studies focus on backdoor attack against the uncompressed model; while the vulnerability of compressed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Huy Phan , Cong Shi , Yi Xie , Tianfang Zhang , Zhuohang Li , Tianming Zhao , Jian Liu , Yan Wang , Yingying Chen , Bo Yuan

Recent studies revealed that deep neural networks (DNNs) are exposed to backdoor threats when training with third-party resources (such as training samples or backbones). The backdoored model has promising performance in predicting benign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chengxiao Luo , Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

This paper proposes a hybrid quantum neural network (HQNN) for indoor user localization using received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values. We use publicly available RSSI datasets for indoor localization using WiFi, Bluetooth, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Sparsh Mittal , Yash Chand , Neel Kanth Kundu

Interest in poisoning attacks and backdoors recently resurfaced for Deep Learning (DL) applications. Several successful defense mechanisms have been recently proposed for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), for example in the context of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Maximilian Bachl , Alexander Hartl , Joachim Fabini , Tanja Zseby

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a popular model in computer vision and has the advantage of making good use of the correlation information of data. However, CNN is challenging to learn efficiently if the given dimension of data or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Seunghyeok Oh , Jaeho Choi , Joongheon Kim

In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid deep learning architecture that synergistically combines Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and multi-head attention mechanisms to significantly enhance cybersecurity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jayant Biradar , Smit Shah , Tanmay Naik

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been found to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, raising security concerns about their deployment in mission-critical applications. While existing defense methods have demonstrated promising results, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yige Li , Xixiang Lyu , Xingjun Ma , Nodens Koren , Lingjuan Lyu , Bo Li , Yu-Gang Jiang

The backdoor or Trojan attack is a severe threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). Researchers find that DNNs trained on benign data and settings can also learn backdoor behaviors, which is known as the natural backdoor. Existing works on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zhenting Wang , Hailun Ding , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma

Unsupervised anomaly-based intrusion detection requires models that can generalize to attack patterns not observed during training. This work presents the first large-scale evaluation of hybrid quantum-classical (HQC) autoencoders for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Mohammad Arif Rasyidi , Omar Alhussein , Sami Muhaidat , Ernesto Damiani

We compare the performance of randomized classical and quantum neural networks (NNs) as well as classical and quantum-classical hybrid convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the task of supervised binary image classification. We keep the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Daniel Basilewitsch , João F. Bravo , Christian Tutschku , Frederick Struckmeier

Deep learning algorithms have been known to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations in various tasks such as image classification. This problem was addressed by employing several defense methods for detection and rejection of particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani