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Madjid Tehrani

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Quantum Agents

This paper explores the intersection of quantum computing and agentic AI by examining how quantum technologies can enhance the capabilities of autonomous agents, and, conversely, how agentic AI can support the advancement of quantum systems. We analyze both directions of this synergy and present conceptual and technical foundations for future quantum-agentic platforms. Our work introduces a formal definition of quantum agents and outlines potential architectures that integrate quantum computing with agent-based systems. As a proof-of-concept, we develop and evaluate three quantum agent prototypes that demonstrate the feasibility of our proposed framework. Furthermore, we discuss use cases from both perspectives, including quantum-enhanced decision-making, quantum planning and optimization, and AI-driven orchestration of quantum workflows. By bridging these fields, we aim to chart a path toward scalable, intelligent, and adaptive quantum-agentic ecosystems.

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Quantum Error Propagation

Data poisoning attacks on machine learning models aim to manipulate the data used for model training such that the trained model behaves in the attacker's favour. In classical models such as deep neural networks, large chains of dot products do indeed cause errors injected by an attacker to propagate or accumulate. But what about quantum models? We hypothesise that, in quantum machine learning, error propagation is limited for two reasons. The first is that data, which is encoded in quantum computing, is in terms of qubits that are confined to the Bloch sphere. Second, quantum information processing happens via the application of unitary operators, which preserve norms. Testing this hypothesis, we investigate how extensive error propagation and, thus, poisoning attacks affect quantum machine learning.

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Enabling Quantum Cybersecurity Analytics in Botnet Detection: Stable Architecture and Speed-up through Tree Algorithms

For the first time, we enable the execution of hybrid machine learning methods on real quantum computers with 100 data samples and real-device-based simulations with 5,000 data samples, thereby outperforming the current state of research of Suryotrisongko and Musashi from 2022 who were dealing with 1,000 data samples and quantum simulators (pure software-based emulators) only. Additionally, we beat their reported accuracy of $76.8\%$ by an average accuracy of $91.2\%$, all within a total execution time of 1,687 seconds. We achieve this significant progress through two-step strategy: Firstly, we establish a stable quantum architecture that enables us to execute HQML algorithms on real quantum devices. Secondly, we introduce new hybrid quantum binary classification algorithms based on Hoeffding decision tree algorithms. These algorithms speed up the process via batch-wise execution, reducing the number of shots required on real quantum devices compared to conventional loop-based optimizers. Their incremental nature serves the purpose of online large-scale data streaming for DGA botnet detection, and allows us to apply hybrid quantum machine learning to the field of cybersecurity analytics. We conduct our experiments using the Qiskit library with the Aer quantum simulator, and on three different real quantum devices from Azure Quantum: IonQ, Rigetti, and Quantinuum. This is the first time these tools are combined in this manner.

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