Security intrusion detection using quantum machine learning techniques

Conventional machine learning approaches applied for the security intrusion detection degrades in case of big data input ([Formula: see text] and more samples in a dataset). Model training and computing by traditional machine learning executed on big data at a common computing environment may produce accurate outputs but take a long time, or produce poor accuracy by quick training, both disparate to malicious activity. The paper observes the quantum machine learning (QML) methods overcoming the barriers of big data and the computing abilities of common hardware for the purpose of high performance intrusion detection. Quantum support vector machine (QSVM) and quantum convolution neural network (QCNN) as concurrent methods are discussed and evaluated comparing to the conventional intrusion detectors running on the traditional computer. The QML-based intrusion detection utilizes our own dataset that implements the grouping of the network packets into the input streams eatable for the QML. We have developed the software solution that encodes the network traffic streams ready to the quantum computing. Experimental results show the ability of the QML-based intrusion detection for processing big data inputs with high accuracy (98%) providing a twice faster speed comparing to the conventional machine learning algorithms utilized for the same task.