HYBRID QUANTUM-CLASSICAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR SME CREDIT RISK ASSESSMENT UNDER LIMITED TRAINING CONDITIONS
Oleksandr Shmatko, Iryna Mykhailenko, Игорь Михайлович Годлевский
In modern financial information systems, the growing complexity of credit risk assessment for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) creates increasing demands for highly accurate, scalable, and computationally efficient predictive models.Traditional credit scoring approaches based on classical statistical methods and conventional neural networks often demonstrate limited performance when processing nonlinear financial dependencies, noisy datasets, and highdimensional feature spaces.These limitations become especially significant under restricted training conditions, where the amount of labeled financial data is limited and rapid model convergence is required for practical deployment in banking and risk management environments.In such conditions, hybrid quantum-classical machine learning has emerged as a promising direction that combines the representational capabilities of classical neural networks with the computational potential of quantum variational circuits.This paper proposes a hybrid quantum-classical neural network architecture designed for SME credit risk assessment under limited training conditions.The proposed model integrates classical dense layers with a variational quantum circuit that performs nonlinear feature transformation through quantum embedding, parameterized quantum gates, and entanglement operations.Particular attention is devoted to efficient data encoding and optimization of variational circuit depth in order to reduce training complexity while preserving predictive stability.
Наука і техніка сьогодні•Apr 30, 2026•0 citations