Quantum Computing for Rapid Anomaly Detection

Quantum Support Vector Regression (QSVR) on a 27-qubit IBM quantum computer? What could happen? An interesting recent study, "Quantum Support Vector Regression for Robust Anomaly Detection," analyzes the capabilities and challenges of using Quantum Support Vector Regression (QSVR) for semi-supervised anomaly detection using a NISQ device. Key takeaways: * Hardware performance: The QSVR model was benchmarked on a 27-qubit IBM quantum computer. It achieved strong classification performance, with an average AUC a few pp lower than the noiseless simulation (0.72 vs 0.76). Interestingly, the QSVR implemented on hardware surprisingly outperformed its simulated counterpart on two datasets (CC and KDD), which the authors attribute to hardware noise potentially improving generalization. * Noise robustness: The study investigated the influence of six different noise channels on the QSVR's performance. The QSVR was found to be largely robust against depolarizing, phase damping, phase flip, and bit flip noise. However, amplitude damping noise resulted in the most significant degradation of the model, and miscalibration noise also had the potential to impact performance. * Vulnerability to adversarial attacks: A critical finding is the high vulnerability of the QSVR to adversarial attacks. Even weak Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) attacks with a strength of ε = 0.01 could reduce the Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) by up to an order of magnitude on some datasets. * Noise and adversarial robustness: Introducing quantum noise into the QSVR did not provide a clear beneficial effect on its adversarial robustness. The adversarial attacks were often so powerful that the noisy models transitioned to random classifiers at higher noise levels. * Adversarial Training: Adversarial training, a common strategy to increase robustness in classical ML, was explored. However, in this semi-supervised setting where only normal samples are used for training, adversarial training did not reliably improve the adversarial robustness of the QSVR. Here the article: https://lnkd.in/d7QmmHFN #quantum #qml #datascience #machinelearning #ml

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QUANTUM ALGORITHMS FOR RADAR by Thales Quantum Computing for Partition Function Estimation of a Markov Random Field in a Radar Anomaly Detection Problem by Timothé Presles (Thales) https://lnkd.in/ei-6QFMZ Abstract In probability theory, the partition function is a factor used to reduce any probability function to a density function with total probability of one. Among other statistical models used to represent joint distribution, Markov random fields (MRF) can be used to efficiently represent statistical dependencies between variables. As the number of terms in the partition function scales exponentially with the number of variables, the potential of each configuration cannot be computed exactly in a reasonable time for large instances. In this paper, we aim to take advantage of the exponential scalability of quantum computing to speed up the estimation of the partition function of a MRF representing the dependencies between operating variables of an airborne radar. For that purpose, we implement a quantum algorithm for partition function estimation in the one clean qubit model. After proposing suitable formulations, we discuss the performances and scalability of our approach in comparison to the theoretical performances of the algorithm.