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ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)

Qubit-Efficient Hybrid CNN-Quantum Network for Scalable Multi-Class Image Classification

Sang Vo

Published Jul 5, 2026• 0 citations
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10.1145/3803437.3807522

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