The paper introduces a scalable hybrid Quantum Diffusion Model for medical image analysis, leveraging a Discrete-Time Quantum Walk executed on a real quantum device to model forward diffusion dynamics. A classical learning model is employed for the backward denoising step, enabling the processing of large real-world medical data, including grayscale, RGB, and moderate-sized 3D volumes. The authors benchmark their quantum approach against a classical discrete-state diffusion model, demonstrating competitive generation performance across three state-of-the-art image generation metrics.
Quantum diffusion models provide a physics-consistent route to generative learning by formulating noising and denoising directly on quantum states. However, applying such models to classical high-dimensional data is constrained by the qubit cost of state encoding and the computational burden of simulating large density operators.
arXiv:2607. 07072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum diffusion models provide a physics-consistent route to generative learning by formulating noising and denoising directly on quantum states.
arXiv:2607. 21186v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Numerous studies have analyzed the use of hybrid quantum-classical convolutional neural networks as a promising alternative to classical deep learning.
arXiv:2512. 06695v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantum generative models exploit quantum superposition and entanglement to enhance learning efficiency for both classical and quantum data.
arXiv:2603. 00233v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum generative modeling is a rapidly evolving discipline at the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning.
arXiv:2607. 07754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pattern recognition problems arise in a variety of physical image processing situations, and convolutional neural networks are a popular scheme for the required feature extraction and classification tasks.
QuantumBoostNet is a hybrid classical‑quantum architecture designed to improve accuracy in identifying cardiac ultrasound views. It combines a classical backbone with two heads—one classical and a 10‑qubit quantum circuit—trained in two stages with an adaptive mixing parameter that balances loss dynamics. Experiments show that, even with limited qubits, QuantumBoostNet outperforms state‑of‑the‑art classical and hybrid models on cardiac ultrasound view identification, image classification benchmarks, and demonstrates robustness to noise.
arXiv:2607. 27262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variational quantum algorithms often encounter barren plateaus, where cost gradients decay rapidly with increasing circuit depth, undermining the trainability of parameterized quantum circuits.
The paper evaluates hybrid quantum‑classical machine learning for predicting reduced‑order spatiotemporal brain deformation fields. Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition to compress high‑dimensional displacement data, the authors compare static temporal‑to‑latent regression and autoregressive latent forecasting models. Classical neural networks outperform all quantum variants, though enhanced quantum circuits improve over minimal ones, indicating that classical architectures still hold a clear advantage in fidelity and stability for this task.
QuantumBoostNet is a hybrid classical‑quantum architecture designed to improve accuracy in identifying cardiac ultrasound views. The model combines a classical backbone with two heads—one classical and a 10‑qubit quantum circuit—using an adaptive mixing parameter to switch between them during training. Experiments show that, even with limited qubits, QuantumBoostNet outperforms state‑of‑the‑art classical and hybrid models on cardiac ultrasound view identification, image classification benchmarks, and demonstrates robustness to noise.
arXiv:2606. 28252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early detection of oral cancer markedly improves clinical outcomes, yet specialized diagnostic tools remain scarce in low-resource settings.
arXiv:2602. 20293v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study a discrete denoising diffusion framework that integrates a sample-efficient estimator of single-site conditionals with round-robin noising and denoising dynamics for generative modeling over discrete state spaces.