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Applied Soft Computing

Enhanced hybrid quantum classical neural networks with novel encoding techniques for image recognition

Kandula Aditya Sri Krishna Raghav Chowdary, T. Janani

Published Feb 16, 2026• 3 citations
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10.1016/j.asoc.2026.114856

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