arXiv Machine Learning

Tensor Network Machine Learning for Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping: from Grokking Dynamics to Quantum Mixedness of Class Representations

arXiv:2607. 19503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A quantum-inspired tensor network framework for wildfire susceptibility classification in the Gargano region is introduced, leveraging AlphaEarth embeddings and Matrix Product State models.

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)
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Fourier Analysis of Parametrized Interactive Quantum Classifiers

The paper derives a closed‑form expression for the reduced quantum channel of a single‑qubit Interactive Quantum Classifier (IQC), revealing that Hamiltonian parameters directly control the constant, sine, and cosine components of the classifier output. This Fourier interpretation motivates a generalized family of Hamiltonian encodings, including matrix‑parameterized environmental Hamiltonians that produce non‑separable Fourier structures. Numerical experiments on synthetic and real‑world datasets demonstrate that these generalized encodings improve classification performance on several nonlinear benchmarks, with a simpler four‑parameter extension achieving comparable results with fewer trainable parameters.

By F\'abio Novaes, Fernando M. de Paula Neto, Jo\~ao V. M. Cardoso
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Parameterized Quantum Circuits as Feature Maps: Representation Quality and Readout Effects in Multispectral Land-Cover Classification

arXiv:2604. 26675v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate variational quantum classifiers (VQCs) for land-cover classification from multispectral satellite imagery, adopting a feature-map perspective in which the quantum circuit defines a nonlinear data embedding while the readout determines how this representation is exploited.

By Ralntion Komini, Aikaterini Mandilara, Georgios Maragkopoulos, Dimitris Syvridis
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19

SMT-AD: a scalable quantum-inspired anomaly detection approach

arXiv:2604. 06265v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantum-inspired tensor networks algorithms have shown to be effective and efficient models for machine learning tasks, including anomaly detection.

By Apimuk Sornsaeng, Si Min Chan, Wenxuan Zhang, Swee Liang Wong, Joshua Lim, Jonathan Pan, Dario Poletti
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Hybrid Quantum CNN for Cross-Sensor Spaceborne Volcanic Thermal Activity Recognition Worldwide

arXiv:2608. 00069v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Earth Observation (EO) enters the Big Data era, the exponential volume of daily satellite imagery poses significant computational and storage challenges for classical Deep Learning (DL) models.

By Claudia Corradino, Federica Torrisi, Alessandro Grilli, Tommaso Catuogno, Mattia Verducci, Elisabetta Paladino, Luigi Giannelli, Alessandro Sebastianelli
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

Quantum anomaly detection in real scarce data

arXiv:2610.09635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Anomaly detection on small and unbalanced datasets remains very challenging in machine learning, although this scenario is common in several domains,...

By Emanuele Casciaro, Fabio Mascherpa, Alfonso Amendola, Filippo Caruso
arXiv AI
Oct 16

Quantum Versus Classical Machine Learning for Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Feature-Matched Multi-Cohort Evaluation

The study compared six families of quantum machine learning models with classical counterparts using identical correlation-derived features across four large neuroimaging cohorts. Across all cohorts, quantum kernels performed statistically indistinguishable from matched classical kernels, with average accuracy differences within 1.4 percentage points. While a hybrid quantum convolutional network matched classical accuracy and a trainable quantum kernel slightly improved AUC on ABIDE I, overall quantum models did not consistently outperform classical ones, providing a feature‑matched benchmark of 284 comparisons.

By Utsav Poudel, Anuj Nepal, Vyas Viswanath, Subramaniyaswamy Vairavasundaram
arXiv AI
Oct 16

When do quantum views help? Complementary classical-quantum representations in multi-view fusion

The paper investigates when quantum machine learning can enhance predictive performance by fusing classical and quantum representations in multi‑view learning. It introduces a framework that preserves full classical inputs while adding simulated quantum features, and uses concatenation and attention to combine the views. Experiments on synthetic angular‑polynomial data and real datasets (Wine, Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer, Fashion‑MNIST, Steel Plates Faults) show that fusion improves predictions for targets that depend on complementary classical and quantum relationships, while classical‑only baselines perform best on other tasks.

By Azadeh Alavi, Fatemeh Kouchmeshki, Hossein Akhoundi, Yongli Re, Abdolrahman Alavi, Muhammad Usman
arXiv AI
Aug 6

Risk Is Not the Target: A Monotonic Framework for Evaluating Wildfire Operational Risk Signals

arXiv:2607. 21597v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating wildfire risk systems using standard machine-learning metrics such as F1-score or IoU is fundamentally flawed: these metrics assess event prediction accuracy, not the operational coherence of a continuous risk signal.

By Nicolas Caron, Christophe Guyeux, Hassan Noura, Maxime Coulmeau, Benjamin Aynes