insider brief
- Kipu Quantum announced the general availability of Rimay, a quantum feature extraction service designed to enhance the performance of classical machine learning models.
- Rimay has been integrated into existing ML pipelines and deployed on IBM Quantum hardware, and has reported improved accuracy across industrial use cases such as credit risk, predictive maintenance, and leak detection.
- The service, along with Illay and Miray, is available via Kipu Quantum Hub and expands the company’s quantum machine learning toolkit for enterprise applications.
Press Release — Kipu Quantum, a leading provider of quantum software applications, today announced the general availability of Rimay Quantum Feature Extraction, a service proven to improve the performance of classical machine learning (ML) models. Rimay integrates with existing ML pipelines to improve model accuracy by extracting richer quantum features from the same data. This is especially true when data is missing, noisy, or unbalanced.
Enterprise users in manufacturing, financial services, life sciences, and energy are already seeing evidence of value in using Rimay on IBM Quantum hardware, demonstrating the potential of quantum computers to improve workflows as the technology matures.
High-impact results across sectors
Limay has supported customer projects such as:
- komatsu peru and NTT Data Latin America Europe used Kipu to gain trusted predictive maintenance insights from scarce equipment data.
- KPMG used Remay Classify tree species from limited satellite imagery and provide clearer quantum-enhanced environmental intelligence.
- Mauvais used Kipu’s technology to analyze thermal imaging and quantum-enhanced leak detection in oil and gas pipelines.
Organizations are also seeing results in a wide range of use cases in other industries.
- Credit risk assessment: +5% accuracy compared to previous model
- Oil pipeline leak detection: +13% balance accuracy
- Prediction of molecular toxicity: +5 to 10% accuracy
- Semiconductor failure detection: +20% accuracy
- Prediction of drug-induced autoimmune reactions: +7% accuracy
- Prediction of company bankruptcy: +4% predictive performance improvement
How it works: Quantum for machine learning
Rimay quantum feature extraction operates as a closed-loop ecosystem where classical AI and quantum computing continuously amplify each other. By mapping complex datasets into a quantum state space, Rimay reveals hidden patterns and higher-order correlations that are mathematically invisible to classical computers. Its core feature extraction protocol employs a digitized inverse adiabatic drive to rapidly evolve the system, bypassing common noise constraints and exploiting k-local many-body spin dynamics. They capture both linear variable-variable contributions and higher-order multiple correlations, indicating what classical models are missing and resulting in overfitting, feeding back as good features to maximize ML performance. The results validate the potential value of integrating IBM’s 156-qubit processor across image, tabular, and time series data using purely classical techniques. Rimay translates theoretical quantum dynamics into practical, immediate industrial quantum utility that can scale with your hardware roadmap.
Scott Crowder, Vice President of IBM Quantum Implementation “IBM currently offers a global fleet of quantum computers on the cloud that industry is using today to explore the benefits that quantum can offer as they scale. We look forward to working with Kipu and our ecosystem to discover new ways to integrate quantum computing into computing architectures and transform the way we approach problems.”
Enrique Solano, CEO of Kipu Quantum: “We started Kipu to deliver measurable value to industry with quantum computing. Not five years from now, but now. That’s where industrial quantum comes into play when predictive maintenance, finance, and life sciences customers consistently outperform traditional baselines with quantum-enhanced capabilities at the quantum advantage level. Rimay is currently working with Illay and Miray in the Kipu Quantum Hub Quantum has become a competitive advantage, and we are subscribed to it.”
Rimay is now available on Kipu Quantum Hub alongside other quantum services such as Illay and Miray Quantum Optimizer. Rimay is the first module in Kipu’s growing QML toolkit.
For more information or to request access, please visit https://hubspot.kipu-quantum.com/rimay.
