3 papers
quant-ph2026
Parity Floors in Quantum Denoisers: A Closed-Form Benchmark for Fixed-Map Denoising Networks
Jaeuk Kim
Fixed quantum feature maps are increasingly inserted into diffusion denoisers, but standard image benchmarks do not reveal which structural constraint limits them. We introduce Cou…
cs.CV2026
Frozen High-Resolution Inference for Cross-City Object Detection: An AI City Challenge 2026 Study
Jaeuk Kim
Cross-city object detection requires a detector trained in one city to generalize to an unlabeled target city. In AI City Challenge 2026 Track 6, we analyze archived configurations…
cs.LG2026
Quantum Circuits in Diffusion Models: A Fair-Comparison Study and a Mechanistic Analysis of Angle-Embedding Failures
Jaeuk Kim, Sanghoon Yoo
We study the integration of variational quantum circuits (VQCs) into diffusion models through a squeeze-and-excitation (SE) channel-modulation scaffold that isolates the quantum co…