arXiv AI
2d ago

vFedProtoQNAS: Prototype-Guided Personalized Quantum Neural Architecture Search for Virtual Federated Learning

The paper introduces vFedProtoQNAS, a prototype‑guided personalized quantum neural architecture search method for virtual federated learning. It allows each client to independently design and train a device‑specific quantum neural network while avoiding parameter aggregation across structurally different models. Instead, clients share class‑wise latent prototypes, which are refined using global prototypes from the server to serve as federated semantic anchors, leading to a 3.70% accuracy improvement over FedAvg.

By Seok Bin Son, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Soohyun Park, Joongheon Kim