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Photonic quantum solvers benchmarked against classical methods for financial risk detection

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Researchers have evaluated the performance of photonic quantum solvers against classical optimization methods for feature selection in financial risk detection. The study compared Gurobi (classical), QCI Dirac-3 (photonic entropy computing), and Piquasso (simulated photonic boson sampling) across various feature-selection techniques on datasets for credit card fraud and consumer default. Results showed that on the ULB Credit Card Fraud dataset, Dirac-3 MI-Spearman achieved competitive performance with fewer features, while Piquasso excelled at selecting a small number of top features. For the larger AmEx consumer default dataset, performance generally improved with more features across all paradigms, with most differences between classical and photonic methods falling within expected variation, except for specific instances where photonic solvers significantly outperformed classical ones. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Nirvik Sahoo, Paul Robert Griffin ·

    Landscape-Dependent Performance of Photonic Quantum Solvers in QUBO Feature Selection for Financial Risk Detection

    arXiv:2610.03161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feature selection for imbalanced classification tasks such as credit card fraud and consumer default detection requires balancing predictive relevance, inter-feature redundancy, and computational feasibility. We benchmark three co…

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