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International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART)

Quantum Federated Learning for Image Classification

Leo Sünkel, Philipp J. Altmann, Michael Kölle, Thomas Gabor

Published Jan 1, 2024• 4 citations
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10.5220/0012421200003636

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