arXiv Machine Learning

Routing Anonymity and Identifiability of Noisy Quantum Hardware

arXiv:2607. 05281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Present-day quantum computing is cloud-based, where a user submits a circuit to a service provider's proprietary backend hardware.

arXiv AI
4d ago

Quantum Computing for Network Security Classification: Near-Term Classification and Long-Term Memory Efficiency

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 Machine Learning
Sep 18

Interactive proofs for verifying (quantum) learning and testing

The paper investigates whether a learner or tester with limited resources can improve performance by interacting with an untrusted, resource‑unconstrained party. It shows that for many scenarios, classical interaction offers no advantage, especially for memory‑constrained quantum algorithms. However, when quantum communication is permitted, interactive proof protocols enable memory‑constrained quantum verifiers to achieve significant gains through delegation.

By Matthias C. Caro, Jens Eisert, Marcel Hinsche, Marios Ioannou, Alexander Nietner, Ryan Sweke
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Federating Quantum and Classical Computing: A Privacy-Preserving Hybrid Approach

arXiv:2609.25082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum machine learning (QML) is increasingly recognized as one of the most promising near-term applications of quantum computing, viewed as a next-fr...

By Carlos Cano, Daniel M. Jimenez-Gutierrez, Diego Sal, Georgios Kellaris, Joaquin del Rio, Oleksii Sliusarenko, Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria
arXiv AI
Aug 3

MOSAIC: Masked Outsourcing of Secure AI Computations

arXiv:2607. 29221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We address the challenge of securely and efficiently outsourcing AI computations from a trusted but computationally weak client to an untrusted but powerful server, in the setting where the client holds both the input and the model, and the server must learn neither.

By James Hsin-yu Chiang, Sheila Zingg, Kari Kostiainen, Srdjan Capkun
arXiv AI
Aug 20

How Quantum Is the Advantage? A Fair, Calibration- and Noise-Aware Benchmark and Attribution Audit of Quantum Machine Learning for Network Intrusion Detection

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