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A combinatorial framework for adversarial network coding is presented. Channels are described by specifying the possible actions that one or more (possibly coordinated) adversaries may take. Upper bounds on three notions of capacity (the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Alberto Ravagnani , Frank R. Kschischang

We consider the estimation of noise parameters in a quantum channel, assuming the most general strategy allowed by quantum mechanics. This is based on the exploitation of unlimited entanglement and arbitrary quantum operations, so that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Stefano Pirandola , Cosmo Lupo

This expository article gives an overview of the theory of hypothesis testing of quantum states in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. Optimal measurement strategy for testing binary quantum hypotheses, which result in minimum error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 J. Prabhu Tej , Syed Raunaq Ahmed , A. R. Usha Devi , A. K. Rajagopal

The thermodynamic resourcefulness of quantum channels primarily depends on their underlying causal structure and their ability to generate quantum correlations. We quantify this interplay within the resource theory of athermality for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Himanshu Badhani , Siddhartha Das

The Quantum Reverse Shannon Theorem has been a milestone in quantum information theory. It states that asymptotically reliable simulation of a quantum channel, assisted by unlimited shared entanglement, requires a rate of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Ke Li , Yongsheng Yao

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

We introduce the notion of incompatibility witness for quantum channels, defined as an affine functional that is non-negative on all pairs of compatible channels and strictly negative on some incompatible pair. This notion extends the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Claudio Carmeli , Teiko Heinosaari , Takayuki Miyadera , Alessandro Toigo

We study a broad class of quantum process discrimination problems that can handle many optimization strategies such as the Bayes, Neyman-Pearson, and unambiguous strategies, where each process can consist of multiple time steps and can have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Kenji Nakahira , Kentaro Kato

We develop a device-independent framework for testing quantum channels. That is, we falsify a hypothesis about a quantum channel based only on an observed set of input-output correlations. Formally, the problem consists of characterizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-17 Michele Dall'Arno , Sarah Brandsen , Francesco Buscemi

This paper introduces a method for calculating the quantum relative entropy of channels, an essential quantity in quantum channel discrimination and resource theories of quantum channels. By building on recent developments in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Gereon Koßmann , Mark M. Wilde

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

We consider the reverse problem to the distinguishability of two quantum channels, which we call the disguising problem. Given two quantum channels, the goal here is to make the two channels identical by mixing with some other channels with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Chi-Hang Fred Fung , H. F. Chau

Effective information transmission is a central element in quantum information protocols, but the quest for optimal efficiency in channels with symmetrical characteristics remains a prominent challenge in quantum information science. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Atta ur Rahman , S. M. Zangi , Ma-Cheng Yang , Cong-Feng Qiao

Discrimination between objects, in particular quantum states, is one of the most fundamental tasks in (quantum) information theory. Recent years have seen significant progress towards extending the framework to point-to-point quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Christoph Hirche

Hypothesis exclusion is an information-theoretic task in which an experimenter aims at ruling out a false hypothesis from a finite set of known candidates, and an error occurs if and only if the hypothesis being ruled out is the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Kaiyuan Ji , Hemant K. Mishra , Milán Mosonyi , Mark M. Wilde

A quantum analogue of the famous Blackwell Theorem in classical statistics has recently been proposed. Given two quantum channels A and B, a set of payoff functions have been proven to have values for B at least as high as they are for A if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Anthony Chefles

Quantum channel, as the information transmitter, is an indispensable tool in quantum information theory. In this paper, we study a class of special quantum channels named the mixed-permutation channels. The properties of these channels are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Lin Zhang , Ming-Jing Zhao

This thesis addresses the interplay between asymptotic hypothesis testing and entropy inequalities in quantum information theory. In the first part of the thesis we focus on hypothesis testing. We consider two main settings; one can either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Christoph Hirche

Quantum memories are a crucial precondition in many protocols for processing quantum information. A fundamental problem that illustrates this statement is given by the task of channel discrimination, in which an unknown channel drawn from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Ties-A. Ohst , Shijun Zhang , Hai Chau Nguyen , Martin Plávala , Marco Túlio Quintino

With the rapid advancement of Quantum Machine Learning (QML), the critical need to enhance security measures against adversarial attacks and protect QML models becomes increasingly evident. In this work, we outline the connection between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 David Winderl , Nicola Franco , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz