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This research proposes a hybrid framework that uses quantum circuits solely during offline pre-training to generate embeddings, resulting in a final classical model suitable for resource-constrained 6G edge devices. By transferring quantum-assisted representations to lightweight transformers, the approach achieves efficient intrusion detection without requiring runtime quantum execution. The study demonstrates how quantum techniques can enhance classical TinyML architectures while adhering to strict energy and latency budgets typical of future wireless networks.
Quantum-Enhanced Learning Framework for Intelligent and AI-Native 6G Wireless Networks
arXiv:2609.06814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The recent convergence of 6G wireless systems and Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) has driven the need for on-device intelligence in edge networks, where ultra-low latency, stringent energy budgets, and tight compute constraints demand novel architectures. Lightweight deep models efficiently extract local patterns but fail to capture global dependencies, while attention mechanisms do so at the expense of energy and computational cost. To bridge this gap, we introduce Quantumer, a hybrid TinyML--quantum framework that integrates multi-scale dilated convolutions and scaled dot-product attention within a lightweight transformer architecture, employing a two-stage transfer learning pipeline from Quantum Pre-Training (Quantumer-Q) to Classical Fine-Tuning (Quantumer-C). We also present QuantiblentLayer, a four-qubit variational circuit that maps compact traffic representations into measurement-based Hilbert-space features using trainable rotations and cyclic entangling operations. The circuit is used only during offline pre-training as a nonlinear embedding teacher and is removed before Quantumer-C deployment, leaving a fully classical inference model without runtime quantum execution. By transferring these quantum-assisted embeddings into an energy-efficient, lightweight transformer, Quantumer achieves strong detection performance with minimal compute and memory overhead on resource-constrained edge devices. The intrusion detection system (IDS) is used as a case study and evaluated on the Edge-IIoTset, TON IoT, and WUSTL-IIoT-2021 datasets. Quantumer-Q achieves competitive compact-model performance with 105.86K parameters, 0.4038 MB memory usage, 0.5525 MB model size, and 5.5646 MFLOPs; the INT8 Raspberry Pi 4 deployment obtains 16.8413 ms latency with a 0.6493 MB footprint. These results support training-time quantum-assisted representation learning for compact edge-deployable IDS.
Abstract:The recent convergence of 6G wireless systems and Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) has driven the need for on-device intelligence in edge networks, where ultra-low latency, stringent energy budgets, and tight compute constraints demand novel architectures. Lightweight deep models efficiently extract local patterns but fail to capture global dependencies, while attention mechanisms do so at the expense of energy and computational cost. To bridge this gap, we introduce Quantumer, a hybrid TinyML--quantum framework that integrates multi-scale dilated convolutions and scaled dot-product attention within a lightweight transformer architecture, employing a two-stage transfer learning pipeline from Quantum Pre-Training (Quantumer-Q) to Classical Fine-Tuning (Quantumer-C). We also present QuantiblentLayer, a four-qubit variational circuit that maps compact traffic representations into measurement-based Hilbert-space features using trainable rotations and cyclic entangling operations. The circuit is used only during offline pre-training as a nonlinear embedding teacher and is removed before Quantumer-C deployment, leaving a fully classical inference model without runtime quantum execution. By transferring these quantum-assisted embeddings into an energy-efficient, lightweight transformer, Quantumer achieves strong detection performance with minimal compute and memory overhead on resource-constrained edge devices. The intrusion detection system (IDS) is used as a case study and evaluated on the Edge-IIoTset, TON IoT, and WUSTL-IIoT-2021 datasets. Quantumer-Q achieves competitive compact-model performance with 105.86K parameters, 0.4038 MB memory usage, 0.5525 MB model size, and 5.5646 MFLOPs; the INT8 Raspberry Pi 4 deployment obtains 16.8413 ms latency with a 0.6493 MB footprint. These results support training-time quantum-assisted representation learning for compact edge-deployable IDS.
arXiv:2609.06814 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2609.06814v1 [quant-ph] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.06814 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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