# A Cognitive-Aware QML-CRL Framework for Detecting Affinity and Romance-Investment Fraud

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09141 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.09141/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 3 of its 34 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 6 Oct 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Deep Reinforcement Learning and the Deadly Triad](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.02648/) (2018)
- [A Survey on Quantum Reinforcement Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.03464/) (2022)
- [Quantum Circuit Components for Cognitive Decision-Making](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.03012/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present a hybrid quantum-classical framework that detects affinity and romance-investment fraud by modelling the cognitive biases in a manipulative conversation. In our proposed framework, cognitive biases central to this fraud class are carried by dedicated qubits in a structured parameterized quantum circuit, together with a frame qubit makes the encoding sensitive to the temporal order of manipulative reframing, and a narrative qubit that aggregates co-occurrence through a trainable entanglement layer. The circuit parameters are trained jointly with a classical reinforcement-learning agent that decides, turn by turn, whether to flag the conversation, modeled as an optimal stopping problem. We evaluate the model's performance on synthetic conversations that include hard negatives, legitimate but urgent, and legitimate but pushy sales conversations.