# A Hierarchical Fused Quantum Fuzzy Neural Network for Image Classification Source: [A Hierarchical Fused Quantum Fuzzy Neural Network for Image Classification]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-25T05:52:00.851Z Authors: Sheng-Yao Wu, Run-Ze Li, Yan-Qi Song, Su-Juan Qin, Qiao-Yan Wen, Fei Gao Published: 2024-03-14T12:09:36.000Z ## Abstract Neural network is a powerful learning paradigm for data feature learning in the era of big data. However, most neural network models are deterministic models that ignore the uncertainty of data. Fuzzy neural networks are proposed to address this problem. FDNN is a hierarchical deep neural network that derives information from both fuzzy and neural representations, the representations are then fused to form representation to be classified. FDNN perform well on uncertain data classification tasks. In this paper, we proposed a novel hierarchical fused quantum fuzzy neural network (HQFNN). Different from classical FDNN, HQFNN uses quantum neural networks to learn fuzzy membership functions in fuzzy neural network. We conducted simulated experiment on two types of datasets (Dirty-MNIST and 15-Scene), the results show that the proposed model can outperform several existing methods. In addition, we demonstrate the robustness of the proposed quantum circuit. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()