Research outputs

Publications and accepted technical papers

Peer-reviewed conference papers, accepted technical papers, and preprints on Quantum Re-Uploading Units, time-series learning, and hybrid quantum risk optimisation.

Accepted technical paper

Hybrid Quantum Risk Minimisation: A QRU-QAOA Pipeline for Spatial Flood Tail-Risk Allocation

Léa Cassé, Sabarikirishwaran Ponnambalam, Gregory Pearson, Nick Lim, Bernhard Pfahringer, Albert Bifet

IEEE Quantum Week 2026 — Quantum End-to-End Hybrid Case Studies (QECS) Technical Papers

An end-to-end hybrid pipeline coupling a single-qubit QRU forecaster with a correlation-aware CVaR/QUBO allocation objective and a QAOA solver for spatial flood tail-risk decisions.

  • Quantum Machine Learning
  • QRU
  • QAOA
  • CVaR
Published by IEEE · QCE25

Quantum Reupload Units: A Scalable and Expressive Approach for Time Series Learning

Léa Cassé, Sabarikirishwaran Ponnambalam, Bernhard Pfahringer, Albert Bifet

2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE25 / IEEE Quantum Week 2025)

A single-qubit QRU architecture for time-series learning, evaluated on chaotic and real environmental data with matched classical and quantum baselines and an analysis of spectral expressivity.

  • Quantum Machine Learning
  • QRU
  • Time Series
  • Fourier Analysis

Quantum Re-Upload Units: A Scalable and Expressive Approach for Time Series Learning

Léa Cassé, Sabarikirishwaran Ponnambalam, Bernhard Pfahringer, Albert Bifet

University of Waikato & École Polytechnique (IP Paris)

Summary:
This article benchmarks QRU, PQC, VQC, and QRB architectures on chaotic and real-world datasets, showing that QRUs combine stability and expressivity suitable for streaming-data forecasting on NISQ hardware.

  • Quantum Machine Learning
  • QRU
  • Time Series
  • Fourier Spectra