Predictive Maintenance at the Edge: An Embedded Anomaly Detection Pipeline Trained with Quantum Optimization
arXiv:2610.40848v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article presents a predictive-maintenance pipeline that detects anomalies in bearings from vibration signals, adapted for deployment at the edge on low-cost microcontrollers, and that uses quantum optimization in two steps of its training. The pipeline consists of a step of vibration feature extraction and a step of classification with a one-class support vector machine (OCSVM). The features are selected by minimum redundancy and maximum relevance (mRMR) with the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), under a limit on computing time. The OCSVM is adapted for inference at the edge without floating-point operations and is trained by a variational quantum algorithm with Pauli-correlation encoding (PCE). In small-scale tests on a simulator, with the Paderborn bearing dataset, the VQE found the optimal selection in 36% of the runs with Adam, and PCE chose better support vectors than chance, until a classical local search made the two equal. A classical baseline, the usual OCSVM trained by SMO with its weights rounded, matched them without any search.
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Canonical link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40848