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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 9, 2026
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This preprint reports that 16 IQP-circuit-derived features appended to Logistic Regression improved F1 score on credit default prediction from 0.462 to 0.517 (p < 0.0001), outperforming Kernel PCA at equal feature budget, but the benefit is confined to linear classifiers and has not undergone peer review. The work is a computational proof-of-concept that motivates further investigation of quantum feature engineering for specific linear-model tasks, but does not demonstrate clinical or financial utility and cannot yet inform deployment decisions.
Computational benchmarking study with five-fold cross-validation. UCI Default of Credit Card Clients dataset; 23 financial attributes per client; exact sample size and data description not provided in abstract.. Intervention: Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial-time (IQP) circuit feature engineering: 8-qubit circuit encoding 8 selected financial attributes as rotation angles, yielding 16 expectation-value features for downstream classification.. Compared with: Raw classical features, Kernel PCA at equal feature budget (16 features), and classification without quantum feature engineering using Logistic Regression, Random Forest, SVM, XGBoost, and k-NN..
IQP circuit features (n = 8 qubits, 16 output features) raised Logistic Regression F1 from 0.462 to 0.517 (+0.055, p < 0.0001) Kernel PCA, the next-best classical method, reached only F1 = 0.493 at the same feature count; gap survives Benjamini-Hochberg correction (p = 0.00007) No other classifier (Random Forest, SVM, XGBoost, k-NN) showed benefit, indicating linear-expressivity mechanism
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This work addresses a financial classification task, not a clinical population. Results suggest that quantum feature engineering may enhance linear classifiers on tabular financial data, but the findings remain unvalidated, lack peer review, and are confined to a single dataset and model class. Deployment in real credit systems would require independent validation, explicit out-of-sample testing, and regulatory scrutiny.
A single-centre computational study on a tabular dataset using a quantum-classical hybrid approach with modest effect sizes and surrogate endpoints (F1 score), not yet peer reviewed, addressing proof-of-concept rather than clinical validation.
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This work addresses a financial classification task, not a clinical population. Results suggest that quantum feature engineering may enhance linear classifiers on tabular financial data, but the findings remain unvalidated, lack peer review, and are confined to a single dataset and model class. Deployment in real credit systems would require independent validation, explicit out-of-sample testing, and regulatory scrutiny.
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Credit default prediction is a tabular classification problem in which modest gains in F1 translate directly into reduced financial exposure. We ask whether Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial-time (IQP) circuits can produce features that improve a classifier over both its raw classical baseline and Kernel PCA - the strongest unsupervised classical non-linear alternative - at an equal feature budget. The dataset provides 23 financial attributes per client; for an n-qubit circuit we select n of them, encode each as a rotation angle, and read 2n expectation values back out as new features. The motivation for using a quantum circuit is computational: an n-qubit IQP circuit runs in constant depth and encodes feature correlations in a 2^n-dimensional Hilbert space, whereas classical simulation of its exact output statistics scales exponentially in n. Using the UCI Default of Credit Card Clients dataset and five-fold cross-validation, we find that appending 16 IQP features (n = 8 qubits) to a Logistic Regression model raises F1 from 0.462 to 0.517 (+0.055, p < 0.0001). Kernel PCA, the next-best method, reaches only 0.493 at the same feature count; the gap survives Benjamini-Hochberg correction across 12 tests (p = 0.00007). No other classifier - Random Forest, SVM, XGBoost, or k-NN - benefits, which points to a linear-expressivity mechanism rather than a generic improvement. We also show that how the 8 input features are chosen matters: Random Forest importance-guided selection reaches F1 = 0.523, while encoding maximally uncorrelated features drops it to 0.496, demonstrating that the circuit amplifies informative structure rather than creating it from scratch.
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