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most citedQuantum Clustering for Cybersecurity

15 citations · 24 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

QBFF: Deep Quantum Bottleneck for Automatic Speaker Verification Anti-Spoofing

Anton Firc, Nouhaila Innan, Vojtěch Staněk +6

A central goal of quantum machine learning is to identify applications in which small quantum circuits can improve task performance while remaining executable on real hardware. We…

quant-ph2026

VQCSim: When Does Compile-Once Statevector Simulation Beat Generic Quantum Frameworks?

Anton Firc, Martin Perešíni, Vojtěch Mrázek +7

Hybrid quantum-classical machine learning workflows repeatedly evaluate many small parametrized circuits during training and model exploration. In this regime, framework dispatch a…

quant-ph2026

Q-RAIL: A Reliability-Aware Framework for Quantum Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Noisy Hardware

Walid El Maouaki, Muhammad Shafique

Quantum federated learning (QFL) on NISQ hardware is highly sensitive to backend heterogeneity: some clients contribute informative updates, while others contribute noise-dominated…

quant-ph2026

QGCL: Quantum-Guided Clause Learning for Cryptanalytic SAT

Walid El Maouaki, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique

Power side-channel attacks on AES exploit data-dependent physical leakage to recover secret keys, but turning noisy leakage observations into a verified AES-128 key remains a hard…

quant-ph2026

Q-LEAK: Quantum-Based LEAKage Verification for Side-Channel Countermeasures

Walid El Maouaki, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique

Formal verification of power side-channel leakage and its countermeasures in cryptographic algorithms is challenging, as SAT-based methods fail to scale on XOR-heavy, time-unrolled…

quant-ph2025

RobQFL: Robust Quantum Federated Learning in Adversarial Environment

Walid El Maouaki, Nouhaila Innan, Alberto Marchisio +3

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) merges privacy-preserving federation with quantum computing gains, yet its resilience to adversarial noise is unknown. We first show that QFL is as…

cs.LG2025

QFAL: Quantum Federated Adversarial Learning

Walid El Maouaki, Nouhaila Innan, Alberto Marchisio +3

Quantum federated learning (QFL) merges the privacy advantages of federated systems with the computational potential of quantum neural networks (QNNs), yet its vulnerability to adv…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Designing Robust Quantum Neural Networks via Optimized Circuit Metrics

Walid El Maouaki, Alberto Marchisio, Taoufik Said +2

In this study, we investigated the robustness of Quanvolutional Neural Networks (QuNNs) in comparison to their classical counterparts, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), against…

quant-ph2024★ 15 cited

Quantum Clustering for Cybersecurity

Walid El Maouaki, Nouhaila Innan, Alberto Marchisio +3

In this study, we develop a novel quantum machine learning (QML) framework to analyze cybersecurity vulnerabilities using data from the 2022 CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ca…

quant-ph2024

RobQuNNs: A Methodology for Robust Quanvolutional Neural Networks against Adversarial Attacks

Walid El Maouaki, Alberto Marchisio, Taoufik Said +2

Recent advancements in quantum computing have led to the emergence of hybrid quantum neural networks, such as Quanvolutional Neural Networks (QuNNs), which integrate quantum and cl…

quant-ph2024

AdvQuNN: A Methodology for Analyzing the Adversarial Robustness of Quanvolutional Neural Networks

Walid El Maouaki, Alberto Marchisio, Taoufik Said +2

Recent advancements in quantum computing have led to the development of hybrid quantum neural networks (HQNNs) that employ a mixed set of quantum layers and classical layers, such…