IJCNN 2025 WORKSHOP

Quantum Computing & Quantum Neural Networks (QCNN)

We are delighted to announce the organization of the workshop on Quantum Computing & Quantum Neural Networks (QCNN) at the IJCNN 2025 Conference, which provides concrete and original insights on quantum neural networks based on the current available technology in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. Actually, quantum computing can potentially bring a disruptive innovation in the Computational Intelligence field, tackling problems from energy, healthcare and bioinformatics to finance, environment and cybersecurity, more in general to model and control real-world complex systems. It is open to scientists with high interest in data-driven and neural network applications, as well as to other researchers who want to explore the promising possibilities of the variational design of quantum neural networks.

The QCNN workshop is a full-day event that will include invited talks by world-renowned speakers from some of the most important research centers in this field (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fermilab, CERN, EPFL, University of Exeter, University of Rome "La Sapienza", etc.), with a panel discussion as well as standard sessions to present papers that will be included in the IJCNN 2025 Conference proceedings.

The workshop is sponsored by the ICSC National Research Centre for High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, namely CN1 Spoke 10, within the framework of Italian "Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)" funded by the Next Generation EU Program.

Read the topics and the pdf flyer here

INVITED SPEAKERS

Marco Cerezo

Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Michele Grossi

CERN, Switzerland

Zoë Holmes

EPFL, Switzerland

Oleksandr Kyriienko

University of Sheffield, U.K.

Bertrand Le Saux

AI for Earth (form. ESA-ESRIN)

Fabio Sciarrino

University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

Silvia Zorzetti

Fermilab, USA

Samuel Yen-Chi Chen

Wells Fargo Bank, USA

PROGRAM & ATTENDANCE

The program and the detailed time schedule of the QCNN Workshop is available here.

The workshop activities will take place from 10:00 to 18:00 (CET) on 1 July 2025. There will be 5 invited speakers before lunch with an introductory talk by Fabio Sciarrino, 2 invited talks by Michele Grossi and Zoë Holmes right after lunch, then a lecture with the presentation of 4 conference papers and finally, after a tea break, the keynote talk by Marco Cerezo.

NOTICE: Non-registrants for the IJCNN 2025 Conference may choose a “Workshop Only” admission ticket for USD 122.00. Read more on https://2025.ijcnn.org/registration

Buffet lunch and coffee/tea breaks are included in the registration; please see the official page of the Conference for the venue.

NEWS

Any news related to the QCNN Workshop will be posted here!

PAPER SUBMISSION

Main Topics

Prospective authors are invited to submit complete papers of no more than 8 pages in the IEEE two-column conference proceedings format. The accepted papers will be considered for publication both in the IJCNN 2025 proceedings and IEEE Xplore, then will be indexed in Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Further information can be found at the IJCNN 2025 web site.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Quantum architectures and encodings
Variational quantum circuits
Noisy intermediate-scale quantum neural network design
Regression, classification and time series analysis by quantum neural networks
Ensemble learning with quantum data-driven approaches
Theoretical analysis of quantum-based learning methods
Randomization-based quantum algorithms and architectures
Distributed and federated quantum learning
Quantum Graph and Quantum Simplicial Neural Networks
Comparative studies with competing methods for obtaining quantum advantage or utility
Applications of quantum neural networks in real domains (energy systems, healthcare, finance, remote sensing, sensor networks, IoT, big data, cryptography, security, etc.)

Author Instructions

Paper length and submission: each paper should have 6 to MAXIMUM 8 pages, including figures, tables and references. Two additional pages per paper are allowed (i.e., up to 10 pages), at an additional charge of 100 $ per extra page.
Submission requirements: submit your paper in PDF format via Microsoft CMT, using IEEE style files, formatted to A4 size (210mm x 297mm) in a double-column, single-spaced layout with #10 point Times Roman font, and without page numbers.
Subject area: select in the Workshop Track the subject area "Quantum Computing and Quantum Neural Networks - QCNN"
Type of paper: select as type of the paper "IEEE Regular paper"
Double-blind review process: the review process for IJCNN 2025 will be double-blind. It is mandatory to anonymize your paper. Any clues that may reveal author identities will be considered a violation and may lead to rejection. The author statement in the latex file may be:

\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Anonymous Authors}}

Plagiarism policy: all submissions will be checked for plagiarism, and suspected papers may be desk-rejected; ensure your work is original and not under review elsewhere.
AI-Generated text disclosure: if your paper includes AI-generated text, disclose this in the acknowledgements section and cite the AI system used in the relevant sections of the paper.

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