Conditional Quantum Flow Matching for Data-Scarce Physiological Signal Augmentation
Abstract
Generative augmentation is a standard remedy for label scarcity in physiological signal classification, but existing quantum generative models start from uninformative noise, ignoring class structure that is already available. We propose Conditional Quantum Flow Matching (CQFM): a single 306-parameter circuit, conditioned on both flow time and class label, transports a compact class-conditional prior toward the target distribution. Quantum flow matching as published is unconditional, so this is to our knowledge the first conditional one, and the first EEG augmentation on a parameterized quantum circuit. A nonnegative spectral embedding removes the need for tomography at readout. On BCI Competition IV-2a, starting from a prior rather than noise is worth +5.1 accuracy points over QuDDPM (9/9 subjects), though at that operating point a class-conditional Gaussian matches CQFM. Where the prior fails the transport earns its keep: given one transferred from other subjects it regains +7.2 TSTR points (9/9).
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BibTeX
@misc{chen2026conditional,
title = {{Conditional Quantum Flow Matching for Data-Scarce Physiological Signal Augmentation}},
author = {Chi-Sheng Chen and Samuel Yen-Chi Chen},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.14019},
eprint = {2609.14019},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14019},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Conditional Quantum Flow Matching for Data-Scarce Physiological Signal Augmentation
AU - Chi-Sheng Chen
AU - Samuel Yen-Chi Chen
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/12
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.14019
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14019
AB - Generative augmentation is a standard remedy for label scarcity in physiological signal classification, but existing quantum generative models start from uninformative noise, ignoring class structure that is already available. We propose Conditional Quantum Flow Matching (CQFM): a single 306-parameter circuit, conditioned on both flow time and class label, transports a compact class-conditional prior toward the target distribution. Quantum flow matching as published is unconditional, so this is to our knowledge the first conditional one, and the first EEG augmentation on a parameterized quantum circuit. A nonnegative spectral embedding removes the need for tomography at readout. On BCI Competition IV-2a, starting from a prior rather than noise is worth +5.1 accuracy points over QuDDPM (9/9 subjects), though at that operating point a class-conditional Gaussian matches CQFM. Where the prior fails the transport earns its keep: given one transferred from other subjects it regains +7.2 TSTR points (9/9).
ER -