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EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing

Quantum Federated Learning for Wireless Communications

Rakesh Mohan Pujahari, Akshit Tanwar

Published Jan 1, 2022• 16 citations
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10.1007/978-3-030-85559-8_14

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