Quantum computing, combined with deep learning, leverages principles like superposition and entanglement to enhance complex data-driven tasks. The Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era presents opportunities for hybrid quantum-classical architectures to address this challenge. Despite significant progress, practical applications of these hybrid models are limited. This letter proposes a novel hybrid quantum-classical deep learning architecture, integrating Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) and Long-Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, enhanced by Cluster State Signal Processing. Furthermore, this letter addresses indoor-outdoor detection using high-dimensional signal data, utilizing the Cirq platform—a Python framework for developing and simulating Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) circuits on quantum computers and simulators. The approach addresses noise and decoherence issues. Preliminary results show that the QCNN-LSTM model outperforms pure quantum and hybrid models in accuracy and efficiency. This validates the practical benefits of hybrid architectures, paving the way for advancements in complex data classification like indoor-outdoor detection.
Quantum computing, combined with deep learning, leverages principles like superposition and entanglement to enhance complex data-driven tasks. The Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era presents opportunities for hybrid quantum-classical architectures to address this challenge. Despite significant progress, practical applications of these hybrid models are limited. This letter proposes a novel hybrid quantum-classical deep learning architecture, integrating Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) and Long-Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, enhanced by Cluster State Signal Processing. Furthermore, this letter addresses indoor-outdoor detection using high-dimensional signal data, utilizing the Cirq platform—a Python framework for developing and simulating Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) circuits on quantum computers and simulators. The approach addresses noise and decoherence issues. Preliminary results show that the QCNN-LSTM model outperforms pure quantum and hybrid models in accuracy and efficiency. This validates the practical benefits of hybrid architectures, paving the way for advancements in complex data classification like indoor-outdoor detection.
Abstract Quantum Machine Learning (QML) has emerged as a promising paradigm that leverages the principles of quantum mechanics—such as superposition and entanglement—to overcome the limitations of classical machine learning in handling complex, high-dimensional data. However, practical challenges such as limited coherence times of qubits and the integration of quantum circuits with classical architectures have hindered the full realization of QML’s potential. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel hybrid architecture, termed the Classical-Quantum Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network (CQHCNN), which integrates quantum-inspired layers into conventional deep learning frameworks. These quantum layers utilize quantum information processing to extract complex features, while the classical components perform feature extraction and classification. This paper evaluates the performance of our model on several benchmark datasets, including MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, CIFAR-10 and COVID-19 Radiography, demonstrating its ability to outperform some other Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) in terms of many metrics. Experimental results indicate that the hybrid model achieves significant improvements in classification accuracy and computational efficiency, highlighting the potential of quantum-inspired techniques to enhance classical machine learning models.
Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning is an emerging field of research that combines the strengths of both classical and quantum domains, particularly when working with noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. Classical models often face challenges related to the size of input data and model complexity, while quantum computing-based models are constrained by the limited availability of high-qubit, error-free quantum hardware. Hybrid models, which integrate quantum circuits with classical deep learning models, offer a solution to these limitations. Recent research has demonstrated the superiority of hybrid models over classical models in terms of performance. Motivated by these findings, in this work, 2 basic classical models Fully Connected Neural Network (FCNN), and Convolution Neural Network (CNN)-Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory(BiLSTM) are modified using different quantum circuits and performance of these hybrid models is compared for heart disease detection task.
Classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved notable success in image classification but face challenges in scalability, interpretability, and computational cost. With the growing availability of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, hybrid quantum-classical models offer a promising alternative by leveraging quantum parallelism and entanglement. In this work, we present a hybrid Quantum Convolutional Neural Network (QCNN) that integrates quantum convolutional layers into classical image classification pipeline for the MNIST dataset. Our architecture features a modular, low-depth Quantum Kernel Convolution (QKC) design suitable for near-term hardware. We implement the system using Qiskit and evaluate in terms of classification accuracy, circuit efficiency, and integration feasibility. Our results demonstrate that (i) the hybrid QCNN achieves similar accuracy to classical models while reducing the number of classical parameters, and (ii) quantum layers can successfully perform dimensionality reduction through entanglement-based pooling. This study highlights the potential of hybrid QCNN as a practical quantum-enhanced model for real-world image recognition tasks.
Given the recent prominence of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, hybrid quantum-classical neural networks have recently drawn a lot of excitement as a potential solution to improving learning efficiency. Our current paper describes a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Convolutional Neural Network (HQCNN) which is defined as a pretrained backbone of ResNet-18 and a small quantum-enhanced feature-transformation layer of Qiskit. The convolutional high-dimensional features are reduced to the classical eight-dimensional one, which in turn is encoded into a four-qubit parameterized quantum circuit. The resultant quantum expectation values are combined with the compressed features to come up with a hybridized representation of twelve dimensions, used to classify multi-class dataset. Experimental analysis of CIFAR10 data has shown that the suggested HQCNN achieves a test accuracy of 94.74% and improves class-wise precision, recall, and F1-scores than a number of existing hybrid models while using a significantly smaller number of latent features. More investigation into the quantum module indicates that it is predictable about scalability to batch, resistant to perturbations in features, and efficiently performed by evaluating circuit vectors. These results indicate that compact and expressive representations of images that can be helpful in the NISQ era can be acquired using hybrid architectures, thus providing a practical way to forward the benefits of quantum to modern deep-learning pipelines.
In the era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computing, the synergistic collaboration between quantum and classical computing models has emerged as a promising solution for tackling complex computational challenges. Long short-term memory (LSTM), as a popular network for modeling sequential data, has been widely acknowledged for its effectiveness. However, with the increasing demand for data and spatial feature extraction, the training cost of LSTM exhibits exponential growth. In this study, we propose the quantum convolutional long short-term memory (QConvLSTM) model. By ingeniously integrating classical convolutional LSTM (ConvLSTM) networks and quantum variational algorithms, we leverage the variational quantum properties and the accelerating characteristics of quantum states to optimize the model training process. Experimental validation demonstrates that, compared to various LSTM variants, our proposed QConvLSTM model outperforms in terms of performance. Additionally, we adopt a hierarchical tree-like circuit design philosophy to enhance the model’s parallel computing capabilities while reducing dependence on quantum bit counts and circuit depth. Moreover, the inherent noise resilience in variational quantum algorithms makes this model more suitable for spatiotemporal sequence modeling tasks on NISQ devices.
Brain tumor detection is a vital and challenging task in medical diagnosis, requiring highly precise and efficient methods to improve patient treatment outcomes. Traditional approaches rely on classical machine learning and deep learning techniques, which, while effective to a degree, often struggle with capturing the complex and high-dimensional patterns present in medical imaging data. A significant limitation of these conventional methods is their inability to process and analyze intricate features efficiently, which can impact diagnostic accuracy. To address these challenges, this work proposes a novel Quantum Convolutional Neural Network (QCNN) framework that combines quantum computing principles, via quantum circuits, with classical machine learning architectures implemented through tools like PyTorch and PennyLane. This hybrid approach enhances feature extraction and classification capabilities, leading to superior performance. Experimental results demonstrate that the QCNN model achieves an improved accuracy of 90 percent on the test dataset, surpassing traditional methods and showing promise for advancing brain tumor detection technology. This improvement is supported by consistent decreases in training and validation loss during model training, highlighting the robustness and efficacy of the quantum-enhanced model.