A Hybrid MLP-Quantum Approach in Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) Prediction

This paper explores an innovative fusion of Quantum Computing (QC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the development of a Hybrid Quantum Graph Convolutional Neural Network (HQGCNN), combining a Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) with a Quantum Multilayer Perceptron (MLP). The study highlights the potentialities of GCNNs in handling global-scale dependencies and proposes the HQGCNN for predicting complex phenomena such as the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI). Preliminary results suggest the model potential to surpass state-of-the-art (SOTA). The code will be made available with the paper publication.