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arXiv AI By Yuqing Li, Poonam Bala Nehru, Yunpeng Zhang, Danindu Gammanpilage, Xin Jin, Zeguan Wu, Junyu Liu

Quantum Computing for Network Security Classification: Near-Term Classification and Long-Term Memory Efficiency

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The paper investigates the role of quantum computing in network‑security classification through two experiments. First, it evaluates near‑term quantum‑kernel support vector machines on datasets such as KDD Cup 1999, CICIDS2017, and BoT‑IoT, finding that quantum kernels can match or sometimes improve classical baselines, though classical RBF kernels often remain stronger. Second, it explores long‑term memory efficiency using quantum oracle sketching (QOS), showing that quantum methods can achieve comparable accuracy with a smaller effective memory footprint than explicit storage, suggesting a potential advantage in memory‑efficient data access for streaming classification tasks.

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