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The Journal of Supercomputing

Network attack detection scheme based on variational quantum neural network

Changqing Gong, Weiqi Guan, Abdullah Gani, Han Qi

Published May 11, 2022• 41 citations
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10.1007/s11227-022-04542-z

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