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We introduce a new quantum adversary method to prove lower bounds on the query complexity of the quantum state generation problem. This problem encompasses both, the computation of partial or total functions and the preparation of target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-29 Andris Ambainis , Loïck Magnin , Martin Roetteler , Jérémie Roland

We present a communication protocol for the erasure channel assisted by backward classical communication, which achieves a significantly better rate than the best prior result. In addition, we prove an upper bound for the capacity of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Debbie Leung , Joungkeun Lim , Peter Shor

The general adversary bound is a semi-definite program (SDP) that lower-bounds the quantum query complexity of a function. We turn this lower bound into an upper bound, by giving a quantum walk algorithm based on the dual SDP that has query…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Ben W. Reichardt

We study the wake-up problem in distributed networks, where an adversary awakens a subset of nodes at arbitrary times, and the goal is to wake up all other nodes as quickly as possible by sending only few messages. We prove the following…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Peter Robinson , Ming Ming Tan

We initiate the study of quantifying nonlocalness of a bipartite measurement by the minimum amount of classical communication required to simulate the measurement. We derive general upper bounds, which are expressed in terms of certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 Yaoyun Shi , Yufan Zhu

Communication games are one of the widely used tools that are designed to demonstrate quantum supremacy over classical resources. In that, two or more parties collaborate to perform an information processing task to achieve the highest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Abhyoudai. S. S. , Sumit Mukherjee , A. K. Pan

Increasing the model capacity is a known approach to enhance the adversarial robustness of deep learning networks. On the other hand, various model compression techniques, including pruning and quantization, can reduce the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Svetlana Pavlitska , Hannes Grolig , J. Marius Zöllner

In this thesis, we introduce a new quantum Turing machine (QTM) model that supports general quantum operators, together with its pushdown, counter, and finite automaton variants, and examine the computational power of classical and quantum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-03 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

The accessible information quantifies the amount of classical information that can be extracted from an ensemble of quantum states. Analogously, the informational power quantifies the amount of classical information that can be extracted by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 Michele Dall'Arno , Francesco Buscemi , Masanao Ozawa

We define a new model of quantum learning that we call Predictive Quantum (PQ). This is a quantum analogue of PAC, where during the testing phase the student is only required to answer a polynomial number of testing queries. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Dmytro Gavinsky

We introduce the magic hierarchy, a quantum circuit model that alternates between arbitrary-sized Clifford circuits and constant-depth circuits with two-qubit gates ($\textsf{QNC}^0$). This model unifies existing circuit models, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Natalie Parham

Secure quantum communication traditionally assumes that the adversary controls only the public channel. We consider a more powerful adversary who can demand private information of users. This type of adversary has been studied in public key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Trey Li

We study nondeterministic multiparty quantum communication with a quantum generalization of broadcasts. We show that, with number-in-hand classical inputs, the communication complexity of a Boolean function in this communication model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Harry Buhrman , Matthias Christandl , Jeroen Zuiddam

Artificial Intelligence has achieved remarkable success across diverse application domains. However, its vulnerability to adversarial attacks poses significant challenges to reliability, security, and trustworthiness. Adversarial machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jaydip Sen

We study the communication complexity of linear algebraic problems over finite fields in the multi-player message passing model, proving a number of tight lower bounds. Specifically, for a matrix which is distributed among a number of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Yi Li , Xiaoming Sun , Chengu Wang , David P. Woodruff

We prove that the fidelity of two exemplary communication complexity protocols, allowing for an N-1 bit communication, can be exponentially improved by N-1 (unentangled) qubit communication. Taking into account, for a fair comparison, all…

We use critical block sensitivity, a new complexity measure introduced by Huynh and Nordstr\"om (STOC 2012), to study the communication complexity of search problems. To begin, we give a simple new proof of the following central result of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Mika Göös , Toniann Pitassi

After carrying out a protocol for quantum key agreement over a noisy quantum channel, the parties Alice and Bob must process the raw key in order to end up with identical keys about which the adversary has virtually no information. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-22 N. Gisin , S. Wolf

We present a number of results related to quantum algorithms with small error probability and quantum algorithms that are zero-error. First, we give a tight analysis of the trade-offs between the number of queries of quantum search…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 H. Buhrman , R. Cleve , R. de Wolf , Ch. Zalka

We consider the problem of implementing two-party interactive quantum communication over noisy channels, a necessary endeavor if we wish to fully reap quantum advantages for communication. For an arbitrary protocol with $n$ messages,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-10 Debbie Leung , Ashwin Nayak , Ala Shayeghi , Dave Touchette , Penghui Yao , Nengkun Yu