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We prove an \Omega(n/k+k) communication lower bound on (k-1)-round distributional complexity of the k-step pointer chasing problem under uniform input distribution, improving the \Omega(n/k - k log n) lower bound due to Yehudayoff…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xinyu Mao , Guangxu Yang , Jiapeng Zhang

Adversarial robustness in quantum classifiers is a critical area of study, providing insights into their performance compared to classical models and uncovering potential advantages inherent to quantum machine learning. In the NISQ era of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Pouya Kananian , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

This paper introduces a novel lower bound on communication complexity using quantum relative entropy and mutual information, refining previous classical entropy-based results. By leveraging Uhlmann's lemma and quantum Pinsker inequalities,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Fengxia Liu , Zhiyong Zheng , Kun Tian , Yi Zhang , Heng Guo , Zhe Hu , Oleksiy Zhedanov , Zixian Gong

This paper employs a powerful argument, called an algorithmic argument, to prove lower bounds of the quantum query complexity of a multiple-block ordered search problem in which, given a block number i, we are to find a location of a target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Harumichi Nishimura , Tomoyuki Yamakami

We explore the classical communication over quantum channels with one sender and two receivers, or with two senders and one receiver, First, for the quantum broadcast channel (QBC) and the quantum multi-access channel (QMAC), we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Wei Xie , Xin Wang , Runyao Duan

Claims of successful quantum teleportation are backed up by showing that fidelity exceeds some specified threshold, but whether fidelity is the performance metric and what the threshold should be has been a subject of vigorous debate. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Nehad AttaElmanan AbdElrahim Mabrouk , Barry C Sanders

In this paper, we provide a simple framework for deriving one-shot achievable bounds for some problems in quantum information theory. Our framework is based on the joint convexity of the exponential of the collision relative entropy, and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-12 Salman Beigi , Amin Gohari

A process of preparation, transmission and subsequent projective measurement of a qubit can be simulated by a classical model with only two bits of communication and some amount of shared randomness. However no model for n qubits with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Alberto Montina

We study space-bounded communication complexity for unitary implementation in distributed quantum processors, where we restrict the number of qubits per processor to ensure practical relevance and technical non-triviality. We model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Longcheng Li , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang , Jiadong Zhu

Quantum communication typically involves a linear chain of repeater stations, each capable of reliable local quantum computation and connected to their nearest neighbors by unreliable communication links. The communication rate in existing…

We present a method to detect lower bounds to the classical capacity of quantum communication channels by means of few local measurements (i.e. without complete process tomography), reconstruction of sets of conditional probabilities, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Chiara Macchiavello , Massimiliano F. Sacchi

Reducing the size of neural network models is a critical step in moving AI from a cloud-centric to an edge-centric (i.e. on-device) compute paradigm. This shift from cloud to edge is motivated by a number of factors including reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Micah Gorsline , James Smith , Cory Merkel

We study the (quantum) security of pseudorandom generators (PRGs) constructed from random oracles. We prove a "lifting theorem" showing, roughly, that if such a PRG is unconditionally secure against classical adversaries making polynomially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jonathan Katz , Ben Sela

We study the question of how much classical communication is needed when Alice is given a classical description of a quantum state $|\psi\rangle$ for Bob to recover any expectation value $\langle \psi | M |\psi\rangle$ given an observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Kaushik Sankar

Quantum systems are known to offer advantages over their classical counterpart in communication complexity protocols, where the aim is to minimize the amount of information exchange between distant parties to compute global functions of…

Quantum machine learning (QML) continues to be an area of tremendous interest from research and industry. While QML models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks much in the same manner as classical machine learning models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Maximilian Wendlinger , Kilian Tscharke , Pascal Debus

Quantum channel discrimination has been studied from an information-theoretic perspective, wherein one is interested in the optimal decay rate of error probabilities as a function of the number of unknown channel accesses. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

In some scenarios there are ways of conveying information with many fewer, even exponentially fewer, qubits than possible classically. Moreover, some of these methods have a very simple structure--they involve only few message exchanges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Hartmut Klauck , Ashwin Nayak , Amnon Ta-Shma , David Zuckerman

We theoretically analyse the limits of robustness to test-time adversarial and noisy examples in classification. Our work focuses on deriving bounds which uniformly apply to all classifiers (i.e all measurable functions from features to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-13 Elvis Dohmatob

In this note, we show that quantum lower bounds obtained using the adversary method hold in the Hamiltonian oracle model.

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