Quantum Convolutional Autoencoders for Reconstruction-Based Anomaly Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02135v1
• Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:11:31 GMT
• Title: Quantum Convolutional Autoencoders for Reconstruction-Based Anomaly Detection
• Abstract summary: Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) have become increasingly popular in quantum machine learning (QML)<n>In this work, we adapt a QCNN architecture into a quantum autoencoder framework for reconstruction-based anomaly detection.
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• Abstract: Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) have become increasingly popular in quantum machine learning (QML) due to their efficient parameterization and hierarchical representation of quantum information. Anomaly detection is an important machine learning task with applications across a wide range of domains, including scientific data analysis. In this work, we adapt a QCNN architecture into a quantum autoencoder (QAE) framework for reconstruction-based anomaly detection. The models are trained in a semi-supervised manner on normal samples to reconstruct feature-extracted and dimensionally reduced time-series data, with reconstruction error used as an anomaly score. We investigate two quantum convolutional autoencoder architectures that differ in their treatment of latent information: a hierarchical architecture in which information remains distributed across the circuit and a bottleneck-based architecture in which information is explicitly compressed and reconstructed using additional decoder qubits. The size of the quantum latent space is varied to study its influence on reconstruction accuracy and anomaly detection performance. The approaches are benchmarked against both a variational quantum circuit and a comparable classical baseline using a real-world exoplanet anomaly-detection dataset. Results indicate a trade-off between latent-space size and model capacity, while also suggesting that explicit latent-space compression through a quantum bottleneck can improve anomaly detection performance relative to architectures that retain information throughout the circuit.

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