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Quantum Machine Learning: Methods and Engineering Applications

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2026 View: 2643 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editor(s)

Prof. Francisco Martínez Álvarez

Email: fmaralv@upo.es

Affiliation: Data Science and Big Data Lab, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain

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Research Interests: quantum computing, machine learning, time series

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Assoc. Prof. David Gutiérrez-Avilés

Email: dgutierrez3@us.es

Affiliation: Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

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Research Interests: quantum computing, machine learning, evolutionary computing

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Assoc. Prof. Richard Jiang

Email: r.jiang2@lancaster.ac.uk

Affiliation: School of Computing and Commutations, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

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Research Interests: quantum computing, machine learning, pattern recognition

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Summary

Quantum Machine Learning has emerged as a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field at the intersection of quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and statistical learning theory. Recent progress in quantum hardware, quantum algorithms, and hybrid quantum classical architectures has renewed interest in understanding how quantum resources can enhance learning, optimization, and data driven modeling.


This Special Issue aims to provide a timely forum for presenting recent theoretical developments, algorithmic advances, and practical applications in Quantum Machine Learning. The issue seeks to capture both foundational insights and applied research that demonstrate the current state of the art, as well as future directions of this fast-growing field.


In line with current best practices in reproducible research, submissions that provide openly available code, data, and experimental workflows are particularly encouraged. Contributions that include executions on real quantum hardware, rather than simulations only, are especially welcome, as they provide valuable understanding into the practical capabilities and limitations of near term quantum devices.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
· Quantum learning theory and complexity analysis
· Variational quantum algorithms for machine learning
· Hybrid quantum-classical learning models
· Quantum neural networks and quantum circuits for learning
· Quantum kernel methods and feature maps
· Optimization methods for quantum machine learning
· Noise, robustness, and error mitigation in learning models
· Learning with near-term quantum devices
· Applications of quantum machine learning in engineering, physics, and data science
· Software frameworks and tools for quantum machine learning
· Comparisons between classical and quantum learning approaches


Keywords

quantum computing, machine learning, NISQ

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Hybrid Classical-Quantum Transfer Learning with Noisy Quantum Circuits

    Daniel Martín-Pérez, Francesc Rodríguez-Díaz, David Gutiérrez-Avilés, Alicia Troncoso, Francisco Martínez-Álvarez
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2026.082712
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Quantum Machine Learning: Methods and Engineering Applications)
    Abstract Hybrid classical-quantum architectures have emerged as a practical response to the data and compute demands of modern deep learning, since a pretrained classical backbone can carry the feature extraction while a compact quantum head provides the trainable component. Quantum transfer learning is the most active instance of this idea. However, existing quantum transfer learning pipelines have been evaluated in isolation, typically on a single software framework and without a structured treatment of noise or statistical significance, which makes it difficult to assess how this paradigm contributes over fair classical baselines. A methodological benchmark for quantum… More >

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