How Quantum Is the Advantage? A Fair, Calibration- and Noise-Aware Benchmark and Attribution Audit of Quantum Machine Learning for Network Intrusion Detection

arXiv:2608.18155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum machine learning (QML) for network intrusion detection (NIDS) is routinely reported to reach near-perfect accuracy, yet the most rigorous studies find that well-tuned classical models remain competitive, and that apparent quantum gains may be