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arxiv: 2605.21164 · v1 · pith:FXN5WNKVnew · submitted 2026-05-20 · 💻 cs.LG · quant-ph

Q-SYNTH: Hybrid Quantum-Classical Adversarial Augmentation for Imbalanced Fraud Detection

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keywords quantum GANfraud detectionimbalanced learningsynthetic data generationhybrid quantum classicaltabular datagenerative models
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A hybrid quantum-classical GAN generates synthetic fraud samples with reduced distributional mismatch compared to classical baselines.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Credit card fraud detection suffers from severe imbalance where fraudulent cases are rare. Q-SYNTH addresses this by using a parameterized quantum circuit to generate additional fraudulent transaction samples in a GAN setup. The quantum generator is paired with a classical neural network discriminator to create synthetic data that better matches the real fraud distribution. Evaluations show lower mismatch in key statistical measures while downstream classifiers perform similarly to those trained with classical synthetic data. This demonstrates that hybrid quantum approaches can be applied to practical imbalanced tabular data problems.

Core claim

Q-SYNTH employs a parameterized quantum circuit as the generator in a generative adversarial network, with a classical neural network as the discriminator, to synthesize minority-class fraud samples from tabular data. Under the evaluation protocol, this hybrid model reduces marginal distribution mismatch relative to a classical GAN baseline according to Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics and Wasserstein distances, while delivering competitive performance in fraud detection tasks across quantum and classical classifiers.

What carries the argument

Parameterized quantum circuit serving as the generator in a hybrid GAN framework for minority class synthesis.

Load-bearing premise

That improvements in distributional similarity metrics will lead to better operational fraud detection in real systems.

What would settle it

Deploying the generated samples in an actual credit card fraud monitoring system and measuring the change in fraud catch rate compared to classical augmentation methods.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.21164 by Adam Innan, Mansour El Alami, Mohamed Bennai, Muhammad Shafique, Nouhaila Innan.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Motivation summary comparing distribution similarity and classification performance for five augmentation methods: C-GAN [18], WGAN-GP [19], GAN, SMOTE, and Q-SYNTH. The Similarity score (blue) is a single value in [0,1] formed by averaging two normalized signals: an inverted KS statistic (lower KS is better) and the KS p-value (higher is better). The Utility score (orange) is the downstream fraud Recall R… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the proposed Q-SYNTH pipeline for fraud data generation and evaluation. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Quantum generator circuit. It starts with angle embedding, followed by trainable single-qubit rotations (RX, RY, RZ) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Generator loss over training epochs. We examine the training dynamics to assess whether adver￾sarial optimization remains qualitatively stable and whether the generator progressively improves its approximation of the target fraud distribution in the learned representation space. The generator loss trend, presented in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Discriminator loss over training epochs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: ROC curve of an external logistic regression detector [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗
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Credit card fraud detection is fundamentally challenged by extreme class imbalance, where fraudulent transactions are rare yet operationally critical. This imbalance often biases supervised learners toward the legitimate class, leading to high overall accuracy but weaker fraud-class recall and F1-score. This paper introduces Q-SYNTH, a hybrid classical--quantum generative adversarial framework in which a parameterized quantum circuit serves as the generator and a classical neural network serves as the discriminator. Q-SYNTH is designed for minority-class fraud synthesis in tabular data and is evaluated along two dimensions: statistical fidelity to real fraud samples and downstream performance for fraud detection. To this end, generated samples are assessed using distributional similarity measures based on Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics and Wasserstein distances, real-vs-synthetic detectability measured by AUC-ROC, and downstream classification performance across both quantum and classical classifiers. Under the reported protocol, Q-SYNTH reduces marginal distribution mismatch relative to a classical GAN baseline while maintaining competitive downstream fraud-detection performance. Although SMOTE achieves the strongest feature-wise similarity and the classical GAN attains the highest downstream performance in several settings, Q-SYNTH offers a favorable compromise between distributional fidelity and downstream performance, supporting the feasibility of hybrid quantum augmentation for imbalanced fraud detection.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces Q-SYNTH, a hybrid quantum-classical generative adversarial framework for minority-class augmentation in tabular credit-card fraud detection. A parameterized quantum circuit serves as the generator and a classical neural network as the discriminator. Synthetic samples are evaluated on marginal distributional fidelity (Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics and Wasserstein distances), real-vs-synthetic detectability (AUC-ROC), and downstream classification performance on both quantum and classical models. The central claim is that Q-SYNTH reduces marginal distribution mismatch relative to a classical GAN baseline while remaining competitive on downstream fraud-detection tasks, thereby offering a favorable compromise between fidelity and utility and supporting the feasibility of hybrid quantum augmentation.

Significance. If the central claims are substantiated with quantitative results and joint-distribution validation, the work would provide an early demonstration of quantum generators within adversarial augmentation pipelines for highly imbalanced tabular data. The dual evaluation axis (distributional metrics plus downstream classifiers) is a constructive design choice, and the explicit positioning against both classical GAN and SMOTE baselines allows direct comparison. The practical relevance to fraud detection adds weight, though the current marginal-only focus limits the strength of any operational claims.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the abstract asserts that Q-SYNTH reduces marginal distribution mismatch relative to a classical GAN baseline and maintains competitive downstream performance, yet supplies no quantitative results, error bars, specific experimental details, dataset sizes, or data-exclusion rules. This leaves the headline claims with minimal verifiable support.
  2. [Evaluation protocol] Evaluation protocol (as described in the abstract and results): the reported improvements rest exclusively on marginal distributional metrics (Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics and Wasserstein distances). No evidence is presented that joint feature dependencies, pairwise correlations, or conditional distributions among the minority-class samples are preserved. For tabular fraud data, downstream classifier utility depends on realistic feature interactions; distortion of these joints could render the competitive performance attributable to the classical discriminator or post-processing rather than genuine augmentation quality.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that SMOTE achieves the strongest feature-wise similarity and the classical GAN attains the highest downstream performance in several settings would benefit from explicit identification of those settings and the magnitude of the differences.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating planned revisions where appropriate.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the abstract asserts that Q-SYNTH reduces marginal distribution mismatch relative to a classical GAN baseline and maintains competitive downstream performance, yet supplies no quantitative results, error bars, specific experimental details, dataset sizes, or data-exclusion rules. This leaves the headline claims with minimal verifiable support.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by the inclusion of key quantitative results. In the revised manuscript we will update the abstract to report the specific reductions in Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics and Wasserstein distances relative to the classical GAN baseline, together with the downstream performance metrics (e.g., F1-score or AUC-ROC on the fraud class) and brief details on dataset size and any preprocessing or exclusion rules applied. This will make the headline claims directly verifiable from the abstract. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Evaluation protocol] Evaluation protocol (as described in the abstract and results): the reported improvements rest exclusively on marginal distributional metrics (Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics and Wasserstein distances). No evidence is presented that joint feature dependencies, pairwise correlations, or conditional distributions among the minority-class samples are preserved. For tabular fraud data, downstream classifier utility depends on realistic feature interactions; distortion of these joints could render the competitive performance attributable to the classical discriminator or post-processing rather than genuine augmentation quality.

    Authors: We acknowledge that marginal metrics alone do not fully characterize joint distributions, which are important for tabular data. Our evaluation protocol deliberately emphasized marginal fidelity because the parameterized quantum circuit is configured to model per-feature distributions; full joint modeling remains computationally demanding on current quantum hardware. The competitive downstream performance observed on both quantum and classical classifiers provides indirect support that the generated samples preserve sufficient structure for practical utility, as severe joint distortion would be expected to degrade classifier metrics. To directly address the concern, we will add pairwise correlation comparisons and selected conditional distribution checks between real and synthetic minority-class samples in the revised results section. revision: partial

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full rationale

The paper reports an experimental hybrid quantum-classical GAN framework evaluated on tabular fraud data via Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics, Wasserstein distances, AUC-ROC detectability, and downstream classifier performance against classical GAN and SMOTE baselines. No equations, uniqueness theorems, ansatzes, or parameter-fitting steps are described that reduce a claimed prediction or result to the input data or self-citation by construction. The central feasibility claim rests on reported empirical outcomes rather than any load-bearing derivation chain, making the work self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Review is based solely on the abstract; specific free parameters, axioms, and training details are not described. The approach implicitly relies on the expressivity of parameterized quantum circuits for tabular distributions and standard GAN training dynamics.

free parameters (1)
  • Parameterized quantum circuit weights
    Trainable parameters of the quantum generator that are optimized during adversarial training to match fraud distributions.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Parameterized quantum circuits can effectively model distributions of rare tabular fraud events
    Required for the quantum generator to produce useful synthetic samples as claimed.

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