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QIAP: A Quantum-Inspired Authentication Protocol with BB84-Based Channel Monitoring
Owais Ishtiaq Siddiqui, Nouhaila Innan, Hira Zaheer +1
Authentication in quantum-aware communication settings requires mechanisms that verify user legitimacy while also assessing whether the communication channel exhibits excessive dis…
Q-PhotoMarket: A Design Space Exploration Framework for Photonic Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks in Financial Market Prediction
Alberto Marchisio, Hanzalah Mohamed Siraj, Muhammad Kashif +2
Photonic quantum computing has recently emerged as a promising platform for hybrid quantum machine learning due to its native realization of linear-optical circuits and the computa…
QuantumChain: Blockchain-Backed Quantum Federated Learning for Financial Fraud Detection
Epameinondas Douros, Konstantinos Dalampekis, Nouhaila Innan +2
Financial fraud detection is challenged by decentralized data, severe class imbalance, and privacy constraints. This paper presents QuantumChain, a secure Quantum Federated Learnin…
QSTAR: Quantum Selective Transfer with Adaptive Routing
Saim Rehman, Nouhaila Innan, Muhammad Shafique
Quantum transfer learning (QTL) is often evaluated by replacing a classical classifier with a fixed variational quantum head, but this hides a key question: when is the quantum bra…
PN-QNN: Harnessing Physical Noise as a Native Regularizer in Photonic Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks
Farah Elnakhal, Alberto Marchisio, Nouhaila Innan +2
Physical noise in near-term quantum hardware is usually treated as a nuisance to suppress. We ask whether it can instead act as a hardware-native regularizer for photonic hybrid qu…
MDQEC-QAS: Meta-Decoding for Quantum Error Correction with Hardware-Aware VQC Search and Confidence-Gated Recovery
Prashant Kumar Choudhary, Nouhaila Innan, Muhammad Shafique +1
We propose a unified meta-decoding framework for quantum error correction that learns syndrome-to-recovery mappings across multiple stabilizer codes and noise settings, without req…
Quantum Reservoir Computing for Short-Term Power Load Forecasting in Resource-Constrained Energy Systems
Mansi Od, Param Pathak, Nouhaila Innan +1
Short-term load forecasting is essential for reliable energy management, but practical deployment on edge devices requires models that remain accurate under limited memory, finite…
QPredSGG: Hybrid Quantum Predicate Learning for Long-Tailed Scene Graph Generation
Prerana Ramkumar, Nouhaila Innan, Muhammad Shafique
Scene Graph Generation (SGG) requires relational reasoning over objects and their interactions, but performance is often limited by severe long-tail predicate imbalance. Classical…
Game, Set, Quantum: Parameterized Quantum Circuit for Correlated Equilibrium in Bayesian Games
Param Pathak, Vidhi Oad, Nouhaila Innan +2
Strategic decision-making among many agents under incomplete information is central to economics, security, and multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI). Computing equilibria in su…
Meta-Quantum Ensemble Framework for Robust Network Intrusion Detection
Ritvik Bhatnagar, Nouhaila Innan, Angel Arul Jothi J. +1
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) must maintain high detection sensitivity while operating under strict false-positive constraints, a challenge intensified by class imbalance and…
Towards Fair Benchmarking of Quantum Transfer Learning for Visual Classification
Nouhaila Innan, Saim Rehman, Muhammad Shafique
Quantum Transfer Learning (QTL) offers a promising approach for visual quantum machine learning under near-term constraints, where limited qubit counts, shallow circuit depths, and…
Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Architecture Search
Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Kashif, Nouhaila Innan +1
Hybrid quantum-classical neural networks (HQNNs) are emerging as a practical approach for quantum machine learning in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, as they combi…
HQTN-SER: Speech Emotion Recognition with Hybrid Quantum Tensor Networks
Mahad Mohtashim, Nouhaila Innan, Muhammad Shafique
Speech emotion recognition (SER) remains fragile in real-world conditions because emotional cues are subtle, speaker-dependent, and easily confounded by recording variability, whil…
EFaaS: A Quantum-Classical Serverless Entangled Scheduler for Hybrid Variational Algorithms
Abolfazl Younesi, Nouhaila Innan, Alberto Marchisio +1
As quantum computing enters the Utility Era, realizing near-term advantage relies heavily on Hybrid Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs). These algorithms require a tightly couple…
Q-PhotoNAS: Hybrid Quantum Neural Architecture Search Framework on Photonic Devices
Farah Elnakhal, Alberto Marchisio, Nouhaila Innan +2
Photonic quantum computing is a promising platform for scalable quantum machine learning, but designing effective hybrid architectures remains challenging under hardware and optimi…
A2QTGN: Adaptive Amplitude Quantum-Integrated Temporal Graph Network for Dynamic Link Prediction
Nouhaila Innan, M. Murali Karthick, Simeon Kandan Sonar +2
Dynamic link prediction is important for modeling evolving interactions in social, communication, financial, and transportation networks. Classical temporal graph models capture ch…
QLIF-CAST: Quantum Leaky-Integrate-and-Fire for Time-Series Weather Forecasting
Alberto Marchisio, Aayan Ebrahim, Nouhaila Innan +2
Accurate and efficient time-series forecasting remains a challenging problem for both classical and quantum neural architectures, particularly in multivariate environmental setting…
GAT-QNN: Genetic Algorithm-Based Training of Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks
Tasnim Ahmed, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Kashif +2
Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks (HQNNs) combine classical learning with parameterized quantum circuits, but their practical performance is often limited by (i) the noise of Noisy In…
SPATE: Spiking-Phase Adaptive Temporal Encoding for Quantum Machine Learning
Nouhaila Innan, Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Muhammad Shafique
Most quantum machine learning (QML) pipelines still rely on static encodings such as angle and amplitude maps, and this limits their ability to handle temporal information. To addr…
QNAS: A Neural Architecture Search Framework for Accurate and Efficient Quantum Neural Networks
Kooshan Maleki, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique
Designing quantum neural networks (QNNs) that are both accurate and deployable on NISQ hardware is challenging. Handcrafted ansatze must balance expressivity, trainability, and res…
Scaling Laws for Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks: Depth, Width, and Quantum-Centric Diagnostics
Danil Vyskubov, Kirill Vyskubov, Nouhaila Innan +1
Hybrid quantum neural networks are increasingly explored for classification, yet it remains unclear how their performance and quantum behavior scale with circuit depth and qubit co…
FiD-QAE: A Fidelity-Driven Quantum Autoencoder for Credit Card Fraud Detection
Mansour El Alami, Adam Innan, Nouhaila Innan +2
Credit card fraud detection is a critical task in financial security, as fraudulent transactions are rare, highly imbalanced, and often resemble legitimate ones. A wide range of cl…
Graph-Based Bayesian Optimization for Quantum Circuit Architecture Search with Uncertainty Calibrated Surrogates
Prashant Kumar Choudhary, Nouhaila Innan, Muhammad Shafique +1
Quantum circuit design is a key bottleneck for practical quantum machine learning on complex, real-world data. We present an automated framework that discovers and refines variatio…
Evaluating Quantum Amplitude Estimation for Pricing Multi-Asset Basket Options
Muhammad Kashif, Shaf Khalid, Nouhaila Innan +2
Accurate and efficient pricing of multi-asset basket options poses a significant challenge, especially when dealing with complex real-world data. In this work, we investigate the r…