Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI): Foundations, Architectural Elements, and Future Directions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09884v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:16:00 GMT
• Title: Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI): Foundations, Architectural Elements, and Future Directions
• Authors: Siva Sai, Rajkumar Buyya,
• Abstract summary: Mission critical (MC) applications require reliable, deterministic, and low-latency decision making under uncertainty.<n>Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI) can provide transformative solutions to the challenges faced by classical ML models.<n>We discuss key application areas like aerospace, defense, cybersecurity, smart grids, and disaster management.
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• Abstract: Mission critical (MC) applications such as defense operations, energy management, cybersecurity, and aerospace control require reliable, deterministic, and low-latency decision making under uncertainty. Although the classical Machine Learning (ML) approaches are effective, they often struggle to meet the stringent constraints of robustness, timing, explainability, and safety in the MC domains. Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI), the fusion of machine learning and quantum computing (QC), can provide transformative solutions to the challenges faced by classical ML models. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive exploration of QAI for MC systems. We begin with a conceptual background to quantum computing, MC systems, and quantum machine learning (QAI). We then examine the core mechanisms and algorithmic principles of QAI in MC systems, including quantum-enhanced learning pipelines, quantum uncertainty quantification, and quantum explainability frameworks. Subsequently, we discuss key application areas like aerospace, defense, cybersecurity, smart grids, and disaster management, focusing on the role of QA in enhancing fault tolerance, real-time intelligence, and adaptability. We provide an exploration of the positioning of QAI for MC systems in the industry in terms of deployment. We also propose a model for management of quantum resources and scheduling of applications driven by timeliness constraints. We discuss multiple challenges, including trainability limits, data access, and loading bottlenecks, verification of quantum components, and adversarial QAI. Finally, we outline future research directions toward achieving interpretable, scalable, and hardware-feasible QAI models for MC application deployment.

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