{"id":"https://openalex.org/W7125970293","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/smc58881.2025.11342551","title":"Quantum Contextual Bandits: Integrating Bandit Exploration into Quantum Neural Network","display_name":"Quantum Contextual Bandits: Integrating Bandit Exploration into Quantum Neural Network","publication_year":2025,"publication_date":"2025-10-05","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W7125970293","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/smc58881.2025.11342551"},"language":null,"primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/smc58881.2025.11342551","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/smc58881.2025.11342551","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"2025 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5124099489","display_name":"Tianyi Chen","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I19820366","display_name":"Chinese Academy of Sciences","ror":"https://ror.org/034t30j35","country_code":"CN","type":"government","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I19820366"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210156404","display_name":"Institute of Information Engineering","ror":"https://ror.org/04r53se39","country_code":"CN","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I19820366","https://openalex.org/I4210156404"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Tianyi Chen","raw_affiliation_strings":["Chinese Academy of Sciences,Institute of Information Engineering,Beijing,China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Chinese Academy of Sciences,Institute of Information Engineering,Beijing,China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210156404","https://openalex.org/I19820366"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5124077062","display_name":"Shiva Raj Pokhrel","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I149704539","display_name":"Deakin University","ror":"https://ror.org/02czsnj07","country_code":"AU","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I149704539"]}],"countries":["AU"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Shiva Raj Pokhrel","raw_affiliation_strings":["Deakin University,School of IT,Australia"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Deakin University,School of IT,Australia","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I149704539"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5124111914","display_name":"Jiang Fang","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I19820366","display_name":"Chinese Academy of Sciences","ror":"https://ror.org/034t30j35","country_code":"CN","type":"government","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I19820366"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210156404","display_name":"Institute of Information Engineering","ror":"https://ror.org/04r53se39","country_code":"CN","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I19820366","https://openalex.org/I4210156404"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Jiang Fang","raw_affiliation_strings":["Chinese Academy of Sciences,Institute of Information Engineering,Beijing,China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Chinese Academy of Sciences,Institute of Information Engineering,Beijing,China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210156404","https://openalex.org/I19820366"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5102790878","display_name":"Yinlong Liu","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5984-1299"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I19820366","display_name":"Chinese Academy of Sciences","ror":"https://ror.org/034t30j35","country_code":"CN","type":"government","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I19820366"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210156404","display_name":"Institute of Information Engineering","ror":"https://ror.org/04r53se39","country_code":"CN","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I19820366","https://openalex.org/I4210156404"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Yinlong Liu","raw_affiliation_strings":["Institute of Information Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Institute of Information Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210156404","https://openalex.org/I19820366"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5089769533","display_name":"Jiyan Sun","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8479-333X"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I19820366","display_name":"Chinese Academy of Sciences","ror":"https://ror.org/034t30j35","country_code":"CN","type":"government","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I19820366"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210156404","display_name":"Institute of Information Engineering","ror":"https://ror.org/04r53se39","country_code":"CN","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I19820366","https://openalex.org/I4210156404"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Jiyan Sun","raw_affiliation_strings":["Institute of Information Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Institute of Information Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210156404","https://openalex.org/I19820366"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5018053243","display_name":"Liru Geng","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9196-4927"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I19820366","display_name":"Chinese Academy of Sciences","ror":"https://ror.org/034t30j35","country_code":"CN","type":"government","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I19820366"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210156404","display_name":"Institute of Information Engineering","ror":"https://ror.org/04r53se39","country_code":"CN","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I19820366","https://openalex.org/I4210156404"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Liru Geng","raw_affiliation_strings":["Institute of Information Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Institute of Information Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210156404","https://openalex.org/I19820366"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5124106630","display_name":"Gang Li","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I149704539","display_name":"Deakin University","ror":"https://ror.org/02czsnj07","country_code":"AU","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I149704539"]}],"countries":["AU"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Gang Li","raw_affiliation_strings":["Deakin University,School of IT,Australia"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Deakin University,School of IT,Australia","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I149704539"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":7,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5124099489"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I19820366","https://openalex.org/I4210156404"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.87280666,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"4824","last_page":"4830"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10682","display_name":"Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture","score":0.9330000281333923,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10682","display_name":"Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture","score":0.9330000281333923,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10020","display_name":"Quantum Information and Cryptography","score":0.008899999782443047,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11804","display_name":"Quantum many-body systems","score":0.008100000210106373,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3107","display_name":"Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/31","display_name":"Physics and Astronomy"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/robustness","display_name":"Robustness (evolution)","score":0.6126000285148621},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/quantum","display_name":"Quantum","score":0.5321000218391418},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-neural-network","display_name":"Artificial neural network","score":0.5139999985694885},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/convergence","display_name":"Convergence (economics)","score":0.4796000123023987},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/quantum-computer","display_name":"Quantum computer","score":0.39309999346733093},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/deep-learning","display_name":"Deep learning","score":0.3652999997138977}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.7217000126838684},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C63479239","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7353546","display_name":"Robustness (evolution)","level":3,"score":0.6126000285148621},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.6013000011444092},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C119857082","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2539","display_name":"Machine learning","level":1,"score":0.5454000234603882},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C84114770","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46344","display_name":"Quantum","level":2,"score":0.5321000218391418},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C50644808","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192776","display_name":"Artificial neural network","level":2,"score":0.5139999985694885},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777303404","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q759757","display_name":"Convergence (economics)","level":2,"score":0.4796000123023987},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C58053490","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176555","display_name":"Quantum computer","level":3,"score":0.39309999346733093},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C108583219","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q197536","display_name":"Deep learning","level":2,"score":0.3652999997138977},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C136389625","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334384","display_name":"Supervised learning","level":3,"score":0.35910001397132874},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776639384","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q840396","display_name":"Ideal (ethics)","level":2,"score":0.3100000023841858},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779304628","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3503480","display_name":"Face (sociological concept)","level":2,"score":0.3086000084877014},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779094486","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18811578","display_name":"Quantum machine learning","level":4,"score":0.2614000141620636},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124148022","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2122210","display_name":"Quantum circuit","level":5,"score":0.2572999894618988}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/smc58881.2025.11342551","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/smc58881.2025.11342551","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"2025 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.530450165271759,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/16","display_name":"Peace, Justice and strong institutions"}],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":17,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W14334640","https://openalex.org/W1451881698","https://openalex.org/W2039331148","https://openalex.org/W2156511489","https://openalex.org/W2195439220","https://openalex.org/W2621945747","https://openalex.org/W2910726239","https://openalex.org/W2990961515","https://openalex.org/W3007673423","https://openalex.org/W3013725403","https://openalex.org/W3107485829","https://openalex.org/W3112719367","https://openalex.org/W3120738619","https://openalex.org/W3161932608","https://openalex.org/W3194228500","https://openalex.org/W4400237392","https://openalex.org/W4401754209"],"related_works":[],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Supervised":[0],"quantum":[1,40,78,131,149],"learning":[2,30,147,151],"methods":[3,110],"face":[4],"notable":[5],"limitations":[6],"in":[7,148],"dynamic,":[8],"real-world":[9],"environments":[10],"due":[11],"to":[12],"their":[13],"reliance":[14],"on":[15,99],"static":[16],"labels":[17],"and":[18,82,94,125],"limited":[19],"adaptability.":[20],"To":[21,72],"address":[22],"these":[23],"challenges,":[24],"we":[25],"propose":[26],"a":[27,88,141],"novel":[28],"online":[29],"framework":[31,51,86],"\u2014":[32,37],"Quantum":[33],"Contextual":[34],"Bandit":[35],"(QCB)":[36],"that":[38,103],"integrates":[39],"neural":[41],"networks":[42],"(QNNs)":[43],"with":[44,111],"contextual":[45],"bandit":[46],"(CB)":[47],"algorithms.":[48],"The":[49],"QCB":[50,104,139],"enables":[52],"adaptive":[53,146],"decision-making":[54],"by":[55],"incorporating":[56],"bandit-based":[57],"exploration":[58],"into":[59],"QNN":[60,108],"training,":[61],"making":[62],"it":[63],"particularly":[64],"suitable":[65],"for":[66,145],"applications":[67],"such":[68],"as":[69,140],"recommender":[70],"systems.":[71,152],"mitigate":[73],"the":[74,85,116,136],"adverse":[75],"effects":[76],"of":[77,138],"noise\u2014including":[79],"depolarizing,":[80],"Pauli,":[81],"shot":[83],"noise,":[84],"leverages":[87],"gradient-free":[89],"optimization":[90],"approach,":[91],"enhancing":[92],"robustness":[93],"convergence":[95],"stability.":[96],"Experimental":[97],"results":[98,134],"various":[100],"datasets":[101],"demonstrate":[102],"consistently":[105],"outperforms":[106],"traditional":[107],"training":[109],"identical":[112],"circuit":[113],"architectures.":[114],"Notably,":[115],"model":[117],"achieves":[118],"over":[119],"99%":[120],"accuracy":[121],"under":[122,129],"ideal":[123],"conditions":[124],"sustains":[126],"high":[127],"performance":[128],"noisy":[130],"environments.":[132],"These":[133],"underscore":[135],"potential":[137],"scalable,":[142],"noise-resilient":[143],"solution":[144],"machine":[150]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-01-29T23:17:01.242718","created_date":"2026-01-29T00:00:00"}