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FQ-SHAP: Fuzzy Logic Enhanced Explainability for Quantum Circuits An Extension of Q-SHAP via Fuzzy Gate Classification, Importance-Weighted Consistency, and Entanglement-Aware Pruning

Abraham Itzhak Weinberg

Published Jan 1, 2026• 0 citations
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10.2139/ssrn.6669099

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