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Quantum autoencoders (QAEs) are learning architectures that compress quantum data into a low-dimensional latent state while preserving the information needed for reconstruction. We study blind single-copy compression of quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Hyunho Cha , Chae-Yeun Park , Jungwoo Lee

Existing works are dedicated to untangling atomized numerical components (features) from the hidden states of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, they typically rely on autoencoders constrained by some training-time regularization on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hakaze Cho , Haolin Yang , Yanshu Li , Brian M. Kurkoski , Naoya Inoue

Quantum computers create new security risks for today's encryption systems. This paper presents an improved version of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that uses quantum technology to strengthen protection. Our approach offers two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Albert Nieto-Morales , Arit Kumar Bishwas , Joel Jacob Varghese

Network traffic anomaly detection is a critical cybersecurity challenge requiring robust solutions for complex Internet of Things (IoT) environments. We present a novel hybrid quantum-classical framework integrating an enhanced Quantum…

In the recent decade, it has been discovered that QKD systems are extremely vulnerable to side-channel attacks. In particular, by exploiting the internal working knowledge of practical detectors, it is possible to bring them to an operating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-02 Charles Ci Wen Lim , Nino Walenta , Matthieu Legre , Nicolas Gisin , Hugo Zbinden

With the rapid advancement and increased use of deep learning models in image identification, security becomes a major concern to their deployment in safety-critical systems. Since the accuracy and robustness of deep learning models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Dvij Kalaria , Aritra Hazra , Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

Although unsupervised generative modeling of an image dataset using a Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) has been used to detect anomalous images, or anomalous regions in images, recent works have shown that this method often identifies images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 David Dehaene , Pierre Eline

Photonic Quantum Computers provides several benefits over the discrete qubit-based paradigm of quantum computing. By using the power of continuous-variable computing we build an anomaly detection model to use on searches for New Physics.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Andrew Blance , Michael Spannowsky

This work introduces a novel method for enhancing confidence in anomaly detection in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) through the use of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) architecture. By developing a confidence metric derived from latent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ioannis Pitsiorlas , George Arvanitakis , Marios Kountouris

In order to devise an anomaly detection model using only normal training data, an autoencoder (AE) is typically trained to reconstruct the data. As a result, the AE can extract normal representations in its latent space. During test time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Marcella Astrid , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Seung-Ik Lee

Detecting rare and diverse anomalies in highly imbalanced datasets-such as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) in cybersecurity-remains a fundamental challenge for machine learning systems. Active learning offers a promising direction by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Petko Valtchev , James Cheney , Talal Rahwan

Traditional countermeasures against attacks targeting the receiver in quantum key distribution (QKD) systems often suffer from poor compatibility with deployed infrastructure, the risk of introducing new vulnerabilities, and limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Junxuan Liu , Bingcheng Huang , Jialei Su , Qingquan Peng , Anqi Huang

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is an exciting tool that has received significant recent attention due in part to advances in quantum computing hardware. While there is currently no formal guarantee that QML is superior to classical ML for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Sulaiman Alvi , Christian Bauer , Benjamin Nachman

Deep learning models for medical image classification usually achieve promising results but typically rely on large, annotated datasets or standard transfer learning from ImageNet. Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Joao Batista Florindo , Amanda Pontes de Oliveira Ornelas

The de novo design of drug molecules is recognized as a time-consuming and costly process, and computational approaches have been applied in each stage of the drug discovery pipeline. Variational autoencoder is one of the computer-aided…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 Junde Li , Swaroop Ghosh

In today's digital world, the generation of vast amounts of streaming data in various domains has become ubiquitous. However, many of these data are unlabeled, making it challenging to identify events, particularly anomalies. This task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jin Li , Kleanthis Malialis , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

Amplitude embedding (AE) is essential in quantum machine learning (QML) for encoding classical data onto quantum circuits. However, conventional AE methods suffer from deep, variable-length circuits that introduce high output error due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Jason Han , Nicholas S. DiBrita , Younghyun Cho , Hengrui Luo , Tirthak Patel

Businesses are naturally interested in detecting anomalies in their internal processes, because these can be indicators for fraud and inefficiencies. Within the domain of business intelligence, classic anomaly detection is not very…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Timo Nolle , Stefan Luettgen , Alexander Seeliger , Max Mühlhäuser

To ensure undisrupted business, large Internet companies need to closely monitor various KPIs (e.g., Page Views, number of online users, and number of orders) of its Web applications, to accurately detect anomalies and trigger timely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Haowen Xu , Wenxiao Chen , Nengwen Zhao , Zeyan Li , Jiahao Bu , Zhihan Li , Ying Liu , Youjian Zhao , Dan Pei , Yang Feng , Jie Chen , Zhaogang Wang , Honglin Qiao

Quantum machine learning methods often rely on fixed, hand-crafted quantum encodings that may not capture optimal features for downstream tasks. In this work, we study the power of quantum autoencoders in learning data-driven quantum…