Hardware-aware quantum attention for fast radio burst identification

arXiv:2609.15108 · astro-ph.HE, quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-14 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, quant-ph

Submitted: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-14

Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables. Initial pipeline release with code and test dataset included. Feedback and community testing welcome

Code: https://github.com/euli0323/qvit-frb-code

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Transformer — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Circuits — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Tokenization — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Communication Overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin
• A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances
• A Repeating Fast Radio Burst
• Fast Radio Bursts
• Parkes transient events: I. Database of single pulses, initial results and missing FRBs
• A bimodal burst energy distribution of a repeating fast radio burst source
• CRAFTS for Fast Radio Bursts Extending the dispersion-fluence relation with new FRBs detected by FAST
• A fast radio burst source at a complex magnetised site in a barred galaxy
• A sudden dramatic change and recovery of magneto-environment of a repeating fast radio burst
• FETCH: A deep-learning based classifier for fast transient classification
• 81 New Candidate Fast Radio Bursts in Parkes Archive
• SwinYNet: A Transformer-based Multi-Task Model for Accurate and Efficient FRB Search
• Variational Quantum Algorithms
• Quantum Machine Learning for Radio Astronomy
• An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
• HQViT: Hybrid Quantum Vision Transformer for Image Classification
• RRAT J1913+1330: an extremely variable and puzzling pulsar
• The 256-antenna Coherent All-Sky Monitor

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