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Performing a quantum measurement yields two different results: a classical outcome drawn from a probability distribution, according to Born's rule, and a quantum outcome corresponding to the post-measurement state. Quantum devices that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Andrés Muñoz-Moller , Leevi Leppäjärvi , Teiko Heinosaari

This paper presents a systematic study of adversarial hypothesis testing for both quantum-quantum (QQ) and classical-quantum (CQ) channels. Unlike conventional channel discrimination, we consider a framework where the sender, Alice, selects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Masahito Hayashi , Hao-Chung Cheng , Li Gao

The (negative-weighted) quantum adversary bound is a tight characterisation of the quantum query complexity for any partial function. We analyse the extent to which this bound can be generalised. Ambainis et al. [arXiv:1012.2112] and Lee et…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-28 Aleksandrs Belovs

In a manner analogous to their classical counterparts, quantum classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that perturb their inputs. A promising countermeasure is to train the quantum classifier by adopting an attack-aware, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Petros Georgiou , Sharu Theresa Jose , Osvaldo Simeone

Measurement-device-independent entanglement witness (MDI-EW) will always give an affirmative certification for witnessing entanglement with untrusted measurement apparatuses. Using the MDI-EW method, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Xiuqing Yang , Kejin Wei , Haiqiang Ma , Shihai Sun , Hongwei Liu , Zuohan Li , Zhenqiang Yin , Yungang Du , Lingan Wu

Adversarial machine learning is an emerging field that focuses on studying vulnerabilities of machine learning approaches in adversarial settings and developing techniques accordingly to make learning robust to adversarial manipulations. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Sirui Lu , Lu-Ming Duan , Dong-Ling Deng

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) can eliminate all detector side-channel loopholes and has shown excellent performance in long-distance secret keys sharing. Conventional security proofs, however, require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Hua-Jian Ding , Xing-Yu Zhou , Chun-Hui Zhang , Jian Li , Qin Wang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) represent a powerful tool for classical machine learning: a generator tries to create statistics for data that mimics those of a true data set, while a discriminator tries to discriminate between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Seth Lloyd , Christian Weedbrook

In studying how to communicate over a public channel with an active adversary, Dodis and Wichs introduced the notion of a non-malleable extractor. A non-malleable extractor dramatically strengthens the notion of a strong extractor. A strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Yevgeniy Dodis , Xin Li , Trevor D. Wooley , David Zuckerman

Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) leverages the high-dimensional, nonlinear dynamics inherent in quantum many-body systems for extracting spatiotemporal patterns in sequential and time-series data with minimal training overhead. Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Shehbaz Tariq , Muhammad Talha , Symeon Chatzinotas , Hyundong Shin

Very recently, the experimental demonstration of Quantum Secure Direct Communication (QSDC) with state-of-the-art atomic quantum memory has been reported (Phys. Rev. Lett., 2017). Quantum Dialogue (QD) falls under QSDC where the secrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 Arpita Maitra

We propose a continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (CV-MDI QKD) protocol, in which detection is conducted by an untrusted third party. Our protocol can defend all detector side channels, which seriously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 Zhengyu Li , Yi-Chen Zhang , Feihu Xu , Xiang Peng , Hong Guo

Quantum machine learning explores the interplay between machine learning and quantum physics, which may lead to unprecedented perspectives for both fields. In fact, recent works have shown strong evidences that quantum computers could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Weiyuan Gong , Dong-Ling Deng

Language models are prone to memorizing their training data, making them vulnerable to extraction attacks. While existing research often examines isolated setups, such as a single model or a fixed prompt, real-world adversaries have a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yash More , Prakhar Ganesh , Golnoosh Farnadi

Large-scale optimization problems are prevalent in several fields, including engineering, finance, and logistics. However, most optimization problems cannot be efficiently encoded onto a physical system because the existing quantum samplers…

Machine learning (ML) methods such as artificial neural networks are rapidly becoming ubiquitous in modern science, technology and industry. Despite their accuracy and sophistication, neural networks can be easily fooled by carefully…

Question answering (QA) systems achieve impressive performance on standard benchmarks like SQuAD, but remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. This project investigates the adversarial robustness of transformer models on the AddSent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Agniv Roy Choudhury , Vignesh Ponselvan Rajasingh

In this thesis, we study extensions of statistical cryptographic primitives. In particular we study leakage-resilient secret sharing, non-malleable extractors, and immunized ideal one-way functions. The thesis is divided into three main…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Eldon Chung

Studying adversarial robustness of quantum machine learning (QML) models is essential in order to understand their potential advantages over classical models and build trustworthy systems. Distributing QML models allows leveraging multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Pouya Kananian , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

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