The study evaluates quantum machine learning (QML) models for network intrusion detection against well-tuned classical baselines across four standard datasets, using a leakage-controlled protocol and noise simulation. It introduces a quantum-attribution audit to determine whether any performance gains are truly due to quantum effects. While most tuned classical models match or surpass QML, two quantum approaches— a quantum-kernel SVM and a small hybrid circuit—show statistically significant advantages on specific metrics and tasks.
By Syeda Anshrah Gillani, Mirza Samad Ahmed Baig, Shahid Munir Shah, Asher Ali, Hamzah Siddiqui
arXiv:2607. 11843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) are a promising framework for quantum machine learning on near-term quantum devices, but their security risks remain insufficiently understood.
By Junrui Zhang, Zemin Chen, Lusi Li, Mohammad Ghasemigol, Daniel Takabi, Rui Ning
Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) are a promising framework for quantum machine learning on near-term quantum devices, but their security risks remain insufficiently understood. Studies have shown that QNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, yet existing quantum backdoors mostly rely on a fixed trigger shared by all poisoned inputs.
arXiv:2609.23476v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: A potential path forward is Quantum Machine Learning (QML), which aims to leverage quantum computing in conjunction with classical machine learning t...
By Anand Kumar Mishra, Ramanuj Awasthi
The paper investigates the role of quantum computing in network‑security classification through two experiments. First, it evaluates near‑term quantum‑kernel support vector machines on datasets such as KDD Cup 1999, CICIDS2017, and BoT‑IoT, finding that quantum kernels can match or sometimes improve classical baselines, though classical RBF kernels often remain stronger. Second, it explores long‑term memory efficiency using quantum oracle sketching (QOS), showing that quantum methods can achieve comparable accuracy with a smaller effective memory footprint than explicit storage, suggesting a potential advantage in memory‑efficient data access for streaming classification tasks.
By Yuqing Li, Poonam Bala Nehru, Yunpeng Zhang, Danindu Gammanpilage, Xin Jin, Zeguan Wu, Junyu Liu
arXiv:2607. 11095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial perturbations threaten machine learning classifiers, including variational quantum classifiers.
By Bacui Li, Chandra Thapa, Tansu Alpcan, Udaya Parampalli
arXiv:2508. 19437v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The importance of analyzing nontrivial datasets when testing quantum machine learning (QML) models is becoming increasingly prominent in literature, yet a cohesive framework for understanding dataset characteristics remains elusive.
By Alona Sakhnenko, Christian B. Mendl, Jeanette M. Lorenz
BadQubits is an LLM-based framework that statically analyzes OpenQASM 2.0 circuits before execution to detect structurally harmful patterns. The system evaluates four large language model architectures on 1,500 circuits, achieving 92.67% classification accuracy and 96.1% recall for harmful circuits with a fine‑tuned Qwen Coder 2.5 7B model. Comparative experiments show that LLMs retain sequential token structure, outperforming a bag‑of‑gates CNN, and that model decisions correlate with threat‑defining features such as SWAP density and measurement timing.
By Justin Woodring, Lamine Noureddine, Aisha Ali-Gombe
arXiv:2510. 03389v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current quantum computers require algorithms that use limited resources economically.
By Jonas J\"ager, Philipp Els\"asser, Elham Torabian
arXiv:2604. 10933v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep neural networks remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, limiting their reliability in security- and safety-critical applications.
By Navid Azimi, Aditya Prakash, Yao Wang, Li Xiong
The paper compares classical and hybrid quantum machine learning models for a trigger-like binary classification task using CMS open data. Eight classical models (SVM, ANN, CNN, LSTM) and eight quantum counterparts are evaluated under identical preprocessing, data splits, and decision thresholds, with performance measured by accuracy, ROC‑AUC, F1‑score, precision, and recall. The best classical model is an artificial neural network (93.53 % accuracy, 0.9819 ROC‑AUC), while the best quantum model is a quantum convolutional network (90.89 % accuracy, 0.9731 ROC‑AUC), indicating that within an eight‑qubit budget the quantum models do not surpass the classical ones.
By Tariq Mahmood, Muhammad Awais Rafique, Talab Hussain, Juan Pablo Perez Aguilar, Alfredo Raya, Muhammad Ahsan
arXiv:2608. 04047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional BB84 Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) systems rely on a fixed 11% Quantum Bit Error Rate (QBER) threshold to detect eavesdropping.
By Isha, Deepak Singh, Devesh Kumar, S. K Pal, Praful Hambarde, Amit Shukla