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Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 Samuel A. Stein , Betis Baheri , Daniel Chen , Ying Mao , Qiang Guan , Ang Li , Shuai Xu , Caiwen Ding

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,…

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Speech-based machine learning systems are sensitive to noise, complicating reliable deployment in emotion recognition and voice pathology detection. We evaluate the robustness of a hybrid quantum machine learning model, quanvolutional…

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We show that hybrid quantum classifiers based on quantum kernel methods and support vector machines are vulnerable against adversarial attacks, namely small engineered perturbations of the input data can deceive the classifier into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Giuseppe Montalbano , Leonardo Banchi

Machine learning with hierarchical quantum circuits, usually referred to as Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs), is a promising prospect for near-term quantum computing. The QCNN is a circuit model inspired by the architecture of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Matt Lourens , Ilya Sinayskiy , Daniel K. Park , Carsten Blank , Francesco Petruccione

We utilize hybrid quantum deep reinforcement learning to learn navigation tasks for a simple, wheeled robot in simulated environments of increasing complexity. For this, we train parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) with two different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hans Hohenfeld , Dirk Heimann , Felix Wiebe , Frank Kirchner

Quantum federated learning (QFL) merges the privacy advantages of federated systems with the computational potential of quantum neural networks (QNNs), yet its vulnerability to adversarial attacks remains poorly understood. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Walid El Maouaki , Nouhaila Innan , Alberto Marchisio , Taoufik Said , Mohamed Bennai , Muhammad Shafique

The increasing prevalence of adversarial attacks on Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems has created a need for innovative security measures. However, the current methods of defending against these attacks often come with a high computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Duo Zhong , Bojing Li , Xiang Chen , Chenchen Liu

The application of quantum machine learning to large-scale high-resolution image datasets is not yet possible due to the limited number of qubits and relatively high level of noise in the current generation of quantum devices. In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Amena Khatun , Muhammad Usman

Quantum machine learning (QML) has emerged as an innovative framework with the potential to uncover complex patterns by leveraging quantum systems ability to simulate and exploit high-dimensional latent spaces, particularly in learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Ziqing Guo , Alex Khan , Victor S. Sheng , Shabnam Jabeen , Ziwen Pan

The emergence of quantum computing poses significant risks to the security of modern communication networks as it breaks today's public-key cryptographic algorithms. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) offers a promising solution by harnessing…

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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

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) systems inherit vulnerabilities from classical machine learning while introducing new attack surfaces rooted in the physical and algorithmic layers of quantum computing. Despite a growing body of research on…

Quantum neural networks have been proven robust against classical adversarial attacks, but their vulnerability against quantum adversarial attacks is still a challenging problem. Here we report a new technique for the distillation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Amena Khatun , Muhammad Usman

The rapid advancement in Quantum Computing, particularly through Noisy-Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, has spurred significant interest in Quantum Machine Learning (QML) applications. Despite their potential, fully-quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Alberto Marchisio , Emman Sychiuco , Muhammad Kashif , Muhammad Shafique

In this article, we present a hybrid quantum-classical generative adversarial network (GAN) for near-term quantum processors. The hybrid GAN comprises a generator and a discriminator quantum neural network (QNN). The generator network is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Albha O'Dwyer Boyle , Reza Nikandish

The detection of Alzheimer disease (AD) from clinical MRI data is an active area of research in medical imaging. Recent advances in quantum computing, particularly the integration of parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) with classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Mominul Islam , Mohammad Junayed Hasan , M. R. C. Mahdy

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) are an important model for implementing quantum machine learning (QML), while they demonstrate a high degree of vulnerability to backdoor attacks similar to classical networks. To address this issue, a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Shuolei Wang , Zimeng Xiao , Jinjing Shi , Heyuan Shi , Shichao Zhang , Xuelong Li

Coordinated stealth attacks are a serious cybersecurity threat to distributed generation systems because they modify control and measurement signals while remaining close to normal behavior, making them difficult to detect using standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Osasumwen Cedric Ogiesoba-Eguakun , Suman Rath

While having achieved great success in rich real-life applications, deep neural network (DNN) models have long been criticized for their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Tremendous research efforts have been dedicated to mitigating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jingyuan Wang , Yufan Wu , Mingxuan Li , Xin Lin , Junjie Wu , Chao Li