arXiv Machine Learning

Parameter-Efficient Continuous-Variable Photonic Quantum Neural Networks for Edge Quantum AI: Demonstration in Oral Cancer Detection

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 Machine Learning
Jul 23

Q-PhotoNAS: Hybrid Quantum Neural Architecture Search Framework on Photonic Devices

arXiv:2605. 22097v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Photonic quantum computing is a promising platform for scalable quantum machine learning, but designing effective hybrid architectures remains challenging under hardware and optimization constraints.

By Farah Elnakhal, Alberto Marchisio, Nouhaila Innan, Gabriel Falcao, Muhammad Shafique
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Scalable On-Hardware Training of Quantum Neural Networks and Application to Clinical Data Imputation

arXiv:2606. 03517v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training quantum neural networks (QNNs) on quantum hardware is currently bottlenecked by the cost of gradient estimation: standard parameter-shift methods require a number of circuit evaluations that grows quadratically with the number of trainable parameters, making hardware-based optimisation impractical beyond small system sizes.

By Natansh Mathur, Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos, Masako Yamada, Martin Roetteler, Iordanis Kerenidis
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Exploring the Effects of Entanglement on Quantum Machine Learning of Pathogen Epitope-Receptor Binding

arXiv:2606. 28655v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) provide a flexible substrate for hybrid quantum machine learning (QML), but their practical value on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices remains an empirical question, especially because training depth and scale can introduce optimization challenges such as barren plateaus.

By Aspen Erlandsson Brisebois, Luis Pablo Gonzalez Dominguez, Shivansi Prajapati, Zahed Khatooni, Heather L. Wilson, Connor Burbridge, Brook Byrns, Sureesh Tikoo, Christophe Pere, Steven Rayan, Gordon Broderick
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Do emulated quantum circuits change what CNNs look at? Performance and explainability comparison in medical image classification

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.

By Guillermo Rubi\~nos Rodr\'iguez, Mart\'in Ottavianelli, Mateo Alonso, Gonzalo Bl\'azquez Gil, Boris-Stephan Rauchmann, Pablo D\'iez-Valle, Sergio Altares-L\'opez
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

QFireNet: A Quantum-Enhanced U-Net for Wildfire Segmentation from Sentinel-2 Imagery

arXiv:2607. 14160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wildfire detection from satellite imagery is a semantic image segmentation problem that has proven to be difficult due to challenges such as class imbalance, feature complexity, and atmospheric interference.

By Jaiman Munshi (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Tanvi Tewary (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Sawyer Bloom (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Aidan Chu (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Chetan Maviti (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Kyon Winston-Bey (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Harshit Badjatia (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Farhan Kittur (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Vardhan Madhavarapu (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Varun Kota (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Joshua Kwon (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Nazia Rangwala-Vohra (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park), Franz Klein (IonQ Team, App Dev Club, University of Maryland, College Park)