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Equivalence of Privacy and Stability with Generalization Guarantees in Quantum Learning

Quantum Physics 2026-02-06 v2 Information Theory Machine Learning math.IT

Abstract

We present a unified information-theoretic framework elucidating the interplay between stability, privacy, and the generalization performance of quantum learning algorithms. We establish a bound on the expected generalization error in terms of quantum mutual information and derive a probabilistic upper bound that generalizes the classical result by Esposito et al. (2021). Complementing these findings, we provide a lower bound on the expected true loss relative to the expected empirical loss. Additionally, we demonstrate that (ε,δ)(\varepsilon, \delta)-quantum differentially private learning algorithms are stable, thereby ensuring strong generalization guarantees. Finally, we extend our analysis to dishonest learning algorithms, introducing Information-Theoretic Admissibility (ITA) to characterize the fundamental limits of privacy when the learning algorithm is oblivious to specific dataset instances.

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@article{arxiv.2602.01177,
  title  = {Equivalence of Privacy and Stability with Generalization Guarantees in Quantum Learning},
  author = {Ayanava Dasgupta and Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi and Masahito Hayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.01177},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

31 pages, 3 figures; Major revision including a new probabilistic bound on generalization error (Theorem 2) and a new complementary lower bound on the expected true loss (Theorem 3); Appendices have been expanded to include further proofs and details