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arxiv: 2605.16454 · v1 · pith:WM2YRCBKnew · submitted 2026-05-14 · 💻 cs.LG · eess.SP· quant-ph

QuChaTeR: A Hybrid Quantum-Chaotic Temporal Framework for Earthquake Prediction

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keywords earthquake predictionhybrid quantum modelschaotic dynamicsvariational quantum circuitsseismic signal processingtemporal forecastingwavelet preprocessingrecurrent neural networks
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A hybrid model fuses wavelets, chaotic maps, and variational quantum circuits to predict earthquakes more effectively than standard networks.

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The paper presents QuChaTeR as a new architecture for forecasting earthquakes from signals that exhibit strong nonlinear and chaotic behavior. It processes the data through wavelet decomposition to isolate features, applies chaotic maps to represent unpredictability, and combines variational quantum circuits with recurrent layers to extract temporal patterns. When tested on real seismic recordings, the model reaches good performance metrics quicker than LSTMs, GRUs, CNNs, reservoir computers, and a quantum LSTM baseline. If the hybridization truly exploits the underlying dynamics better than separate classical or quantum approaches, the result points toward more reliable short-term seismic alerts.

Core claim

QuChaTeR integrates wavelet-based preprocessing, chaotic maps, and variational quantum circuits inside recurrent structures to extract temporal features from earthquake signals. On real-world seismic datasets the architecture converges faster and records higher scores across the evaluation criteria than the classical baselines LSTM, GRU, RNN, 1D-CNN, Reservoir Computing and the quantum-inspired Quantum LSTM.

What carries the argument

QuChaTeR hybrid architecture that combines wavelet preprocessing, chaotic maps, variational quantum circuits, and recurrent structures to model the nonlinear temporal dynamics of seismic data.

If this is right

  • Improved modeling of chaotic seismic signals yields higher prediction accuracy on the tested datasets.
  • Faster convergence reduces the computational cost of training on large earthquake catalogs.
  • The hybrid design supplies a concrete route for embedding limited quantum resources into operational forecasting pipelines.
  • The same structure may generalize to other time series that display similar nonlinear behavior once the scalability issues are addressed.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the performance edge holds on broader geographic data, the method could be adapted for early-warning systems that operate on streaming sensor feeds.
  • Advances in quantum hardware would directly increase the representational capacity of the variational circuits inside QuChaTeR.
  • The same wavelet-chaotic-quantum motif could be examined on other chaotic prediction problems such as volcanic activity or financial volatility without changing the core architecture.

Load-bearing premise

That this particular combination of wavelet preprocessing, chaotic maps, and variational quantum circuits with recurrent layers captures the chaotic dynamics of earthquake signals more effectively than the listed classical and quantum baselines.

What would settle it

A head-to-head test on fresh, independent seismic recordings in which QuChaTeR shows neither faster convergence nor higher accuracy than the classical and quantum baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.16454 by Emir Kaan \"Ozdemir.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: shows smoothed representative waveforms for both classes along with the class distribution, illustrating the difference in amplitude dynamics and the initial class imbalance. This dataset provides a realistic benchmark for evaluating classical and quantum-hybrid models for earthquake event detection [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: shows the training loss curves for all models. No￾tably, models with quantum components, including QuChaTeR and Quantum LSTM, start with higher initial losses and gradually approach similar final values as the classical models. This behavior can be attributed to the inherent stochasticity and noise in the quantum simulations, which can temporarily in￾crease loss values during early epochs. Despite the loss… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Seismic prediction remains challenging due to the highly nonlinear and chaotic dynamics of earthquake signals. While classical deep learning models such as LSTMs and CNNs capture local temporal features, and quantum models offer richer state representations, their integration with chaos-driven mechanisms is underexplored. We introduce QuChaTeR, a hybrid architecture that combines wavelet-based preprocessing, chaotic maps, and variational quantum circuits with recurrent structures to enhance temporal feature extraction. Implemented in PyTorch and PennyLane, QuChaTeR is benchmarked against classical (LSTM, GRU, RNN, 1D-CNN, Reservoir Computing) and quantum-inspired (Quantum LSTM) baselines. On real-world seismic datasets, QuChaTeR consistently converges faster and achieves superior performance across multiple evaluation criteria. Despite promising results, scalability and quantum hardware limitations remain challenges. Overall, this work demonstrates how quantum-chaotic hybridization provides a practical pathway toward more accurate and robust earthquake prediction.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces QuChaTeR, a hybrid quantum-chaotic temporal framework for earthquake prediction that integrates wavelet-based preprocessing, chaotic maps, variational quantum circuits, and recurrent structures. It is benchmarked against classical models like LSTM, GRU, RNN, 1D-CNN, Reservoir Computing, and quantum-inspired Quantum LSTM, claiming faster convergence and superior performance on real-world seismic datasets.

Significance. If the results hold with proper validation, this could represent a significant step in applying hybrid quantum-classical methods to chaotic time-series prediction problems such as seismology. The work highlights potential advantages of combining chaos theory with quantum variational circuits for better feature extraction in nonlinear dynamics.

major comments (3)
  1. The abstract states that QuChaTeR 'consistently converges faster and achieves superior performance across multiple evaluation criteria' but supplies no quantitative metrics, error bars, dataset sizes, or implementation details for the baselines, which prevents verification of this central claim.
  2. No ablation studies are included to isolate the contributions of the chaotic maps versus the variational quantum circuits or the recurrent components. This makes it difficult to attribute any performance gains specifically to the proposed hybridization rather than to increased model capacity or hyperparameter tuning.
  3. The integration details of chaotic maps with variational quantum circuits (e.g., how the chaotic parameters influence the quantum circuit ansatz) are not sufficiently specified to evaluate if the model effectively captures the chaotic dynamics of earthquake signals beyond standard approaches.
minor comments (2)
  1. While PyTorch and PennyLane are mentioned, more details on the specific quantum circuit depth, number of qubits, and chaotic map parameters (e.g., logistic map r value) would improve reproducibility.
  2. Ensure all cited works on quantum machine learning for time series are up to date and relevant to the hybridization approach.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive review of our manuscript on QuChaTeR. We address each major comment below and outline the revisions we will make to strengthen the paper.

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  1. Referee: The abstract states that QuChaTeR 'consistently converges faster and achieves superior performance across multiple evaluation criteria' but supplies no quantitative metrics, error bars, dataset sizes, or implementation details for the baselines, which prevents verification of this central claim.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including specific quantitative support for the performance claims. In the revised version, we will expand the abstract to report key metrics such as mean convergence epochs, RMSE or accuracy improvements with standard deviations across runs, approximate dataset sizes (number of seismic records), and a brief note on baseline configurations. These details are already present in the experimental section but will be summarized concisely in the abstract to improve immediate verifiability. revision: yes

  2. Referee: No ablation studies are included to isolate the contributions of the chaotic maps versus the variational quantum circuits or the recurrent components. This makes it difficult to attribute any performance gains specifically to the proposed hybridization rather than to increased model capacity or hyperparameter tuning.

    Authors: We recognize that ablation studies would provide clearer evidence for the specific value of the hybrid components. Although the existing baseline comparisons offer indirect support, we will add a dedicated ablation subsection in the experiments. This will include variants with chaotic maps disabled, variational quantum circuits replaced by classical equivalents, and recurrent layers removed, with quantitative results on the same seismic datasets to isolate contributions. revision: yes

  3. Referee: The integration details of chaotic maps with variational quantum circuits (e.g., how the chaotic parameters influence the quantum circuit ansatz) are not sufficiently specified to evaluate if the model effectively captures the chaotic dynamics of earthquake signals beyond standard approaches.

    Authors: We appreciate this observation on the need for greater technical specificity. The revised methods section will include explicit equations and a step-by-step description of the integration: chaotic map outputs (e.g., from the logistic map) will be shown to directly parameterize rotation angles and entanglement strengths in the variational quantum circuit ansatz. We will also add a short discussion of how this encoding aims to embed the nonlinear dynamics of seismic signals into the quantum feature space. revision: yes

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity; empirical benchmarking is self-contained

full rationale

The paper proposes a hybrid architecture (wavelet preprocessing + chaotic maps + variational quantum circuits + recurrent structures) and reports empirical results on real-world seismic datasets versus listed baselines. No mathematical derivation chain, equations, or first-principles results are described that reduce any claim to its own inputs by construction. Performance statements are presented as direct benchmark outcomes rather than renamed fits or self-referential definitions. Self-citations are not invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems. The work is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks and receives the default non-circularity finding.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review prevents full audit; the hybrid design implies multiple variational parameters in quantum circuits and chaotic map coefficients that are fitted to data, plus the domain assumption that quantum circuits supply richer representations.

free parameters (2)
  • Variational parameters in quantum circuits
    Optimized during training to fit seismic features; typical in VQC models.
  • Chaotic map control parameters
    Tuned to match observed earthquake signal dynamics.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Quantum models offer richer state representations than classical deep learning for temporal data
    Explicitly stated as motivation in the abstract.

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    The proposed QuChaTeR model integrates temporal convolutional operations, chaotic recurrent perturbations, and quantum variational embeddings... chaotic perturbations are applied to h_t through the logistic map z_t = r h_t ⊙ (1−h_t)... Hénon transformation with a=1.4, b=0.3... U(x_t,Θ) = product of RY, RZ, CNOT layers... h^(q)_t = h^(q)_{t−1} + W_q q_t

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    All experiments were run on an NVIDIA L4 GPU with PyTorch and PennyLane... 6-qubit configuration... r^*=3.8475 via Bayesian optimization

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