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8 papers

cs.CR2025

PHANTOM: Progressive High-fidelity Adversarial Network for Threat Object Modeling

Jamal Al-Karaki, Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan, Rand Derar Mohammad Al Athamneh

The scarcity of cyberattack data hinders the development of robust intrusion detection systems. This paper introduces PHANTOM, a novel adversarial variational framework for generat…

quant-ph2025

QI-MPC: A Hybrid Quantum-Inspired Model Predictive Control for Learning Optimal Policies

Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan, Jamal Al-Karaki

In this paper, we present Quantum-Inspired Model Predictive Control (QIMPC), an approach that uses Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) to learn control polices in MPC problems. The…

cs.LG2025

Achieving Optimal Tissue Repair Through MARL with Reward Shaping and Curriculum Learning

Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan, Jamal Al-Karaki

In this paper, we present a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework for optimizing tissue repair processes using engineered biological agents. Our approach integrates:…

cs.AI2025

Optimal Path Planning and Cost Minimization for a Drone Delivery System Via Model Predictive Control

Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan, Jamal Al-Karaki

In this study, we formulate the drone delivery problem as a control problem and solve it using Model Predictive Control. Two experiments are performed: The first is on a less chall…

quant-ph2024

Predicting Water Quality using Quantum Machine Learning: The Case of the Umgeni Catchment (U20A) Study Region

Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan, Jamal Al-Karaki, Marwan Omar

In this study, we consider a real-world application of QML techniques to study water quality in the U20A region in Durban, South Africa. Specifically, we applied the quantum suppor…

cs.LG2024

Cybercrime Prediction via Geographically Weighted Learning

Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan, Jamal Al-Karaki, Emad Mahafzah

Inspired by the success of Geographically Weighted Regression and its accounting for spatial variations, we propose GeogGNN -- A graph neural network model that accounts for geogra…