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)
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: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:2608. 12663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wildfire susceptibility mapping typically relies on physical variables assembled from multiple remote-sensing, climate, and geospatial products.
By Yuan Zhuang, Sanaa Hobeichi, Peng Shi, Fei Huang
arXiv:2605. 18333v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate and efficient time-series forecasting remains a challenging problem for both classical and quantum neural architectures, particularly in multivariate environmental settings.
By Alberto Marchisio, Aayan Ebrahim, Nouhaila Innan, Muhammad Kashif, Muhammad Shafique
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: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: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
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
Resting-state functional connectivity is widely used in machine learning-based classification of neuropsychiatric disorders. Quantum machine learning models have been proposed for functional connectiv...
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: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