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7 papers

cs.AI2026

Quantum Entangled Multimodal Fusion Networks (QEMFN): Resource-Aware Hybrid Vision-Language Fusion via Trainable Entanglement

Srikar Alla, Ali Shiri Sichani, Chi-Ren Shyu

Multimodal vision-language systems typically fuse image and text embeddings through classical operators such as concatenation, attention, bilinear pooling, or tensor interactions.…

quant-ph2026

When Normalization Selects the Sign: Auditing Robustness Ablations in Quantum Attention

Owen Friedewald, Srikar Alla, Ali Shiri Sichani +1

Removing an input-scaling module changes both a classifier and the perturbations reaching its encoder. A robustness difference can therefore reflect the comparison rule as well as…

quant-ph2026

Where Quantum Fourier Sampling Stops Short: A Three-Gate Audit Protocol for Delay-PUF Security Models

Owen Friedewald, Ali Shiri Sichani, Chi-Ren Shyu

Quantum Fourier sampling may help audit the spectral learnability of delay-based physical unclonable functions (PUFs). We ask whether that promise survives access matching, a stron…

quant-ph2026

Exact Diagonal Completion on Reachable Subspaces: Application to QAOA Placement

Owen Friedewald, Ali Shiri Sichani, Chi-Ren Shyu

Unused encoding states offer opportunities to simplify quantum circuits. For algorithms restricted to reachable subspaces, unspecified diagonal-operator entries can be optimized wi…

quant-ph2026

Plateau-Constrained Selection: Exploiting Degeneracy for Lower-Depth Quantum Compilation

Owen Friedewald, Ali Shiri Sichani, Chi-Ren Shyu

Minimum-cost orders of commuting phase terms can produce substantially different routed circuits. On the same 36-term instances, three orders with identical support cost 74 yield m…

quant-ph2026

Shielded RL for Route-Charged Parity-Term Ordering in QEDA Phase Components

Owen Friedewald, Ali Shiri Sichani, Chi-Ren Shyu

Commuting phase terms in quantum electronic design automation (QEDA) placement circuits are logically invariant under reordering, yet their routed cost varies substantially after h…

quant-ph2026

Toward Secure Multitenant Quantum Computing: Circuit Affinity, Crosstalk Patterns, and Grouping Strategies

Andrew Woods, Chi-Ren Shyu

Multitenancy increases throughput and reduces costs in cloud-based quantum computing, but concurrent job execution introduces security risks through inter-circuit crosstalk. We cha…