arXiv Machine Learning By Francesco Aldo Venturelli, Emanuele Costa, Sikha O K, Bruno Juli\'a-D\'iaz, Miguel A. Gonz\'alez Ballester, Alba Cervera-Lierta

Towards interpretable AI with quantum annealing feature selection

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Evolving Hybrid Quantum-Classical Architectures for Image Classification

The paper presents an evolutionary framework, EXAQC, that automatically discovers parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) for use as intermediate modules in hybrid quantum‑classical neural networks for image classification. By evolving PQCs while keeping classical feature‑extraction and prediction layers fixed, the authors achieve high accuracies on MNIST, Fashion‑MNIST, and CIFAR‑10 with gate counts comparable to other quantum architecture‑search methods. The evolved hybrid models match or exceed the performance of classical networks while using far fewer trainable parameters, and the choice of encoding (rotation‑based vs amplitude) significantly impacts accuracy.

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