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In the era of big data, the need to expand the amount of data through data sharing to improve model performance has become increasingly compelling. As a result, effective collaborative learning models need to be developed with respect to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Huiwen Wu , Cen Chen , Li Wang

Quantum machine learning (QML) promises compact and expressive representations, but suffers from the measurement bottleneck - a narrow quantum-to-classical readout that limits performance and amplifies privacy risk. We propose a lightweight…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Guilin Zhang , Wulan Guo , Ziqi Tan , Hongyang He , Qiang Guan , Hailong Jiang

We study the power of quantum memory for learning properties of quantum systems and dynamics, which is of great importance in physics and chemistry. Many state-of-the-art learning algorithms require access to an additional external quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Sitan Chen , Jordan Cotler , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Jerry Li

In quantum secret sharing, a quantum secret state is mapped to multiple shares such that shares from qualified sets can recover the secret state and shares from other forbidden sets reveal nothing about the secret state; we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Hua Sun

In this paper, we study the problem of deceptive reinforcement learning to preserve the privacy of a reward function. Reinforcement learning is the problem of finding a behaviour policy based on rewards received from exploratory behaviour.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Zhengshang Liu , Yue Yang , Tim Miller , Peta Masters

A quantum generalized divergence by definition satisfies the data-processing inequality; as such, the relative decrease in such a divergence under the action of a quantum channel is at most one. This relative decrease is formally known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

The application and analysis of the Cut-and-Choose technique in protocols secure against quantum adversaries is not a straightforward transposition of the classical case, among other reasons due to the difficulty to use rewinding in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Elham Kashefi , Luka Music , Petros Wallden

We show that a simple eavesdropper listening in on classical communication between potentially entangled quantum parties will eventually be able to impersonate any of the parties. Furthermore, the attack is efficient if one-way puzzles do…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Luowen Qian , Mark Zhandry

Quantum cryptography is information-theoretically secure owing to its solid basis in quantum mechanics. However, generally, initial implementations with practical imperfections might open loopholes, allowing an eavesdropper to compromise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Anqi Huang , Stefanie Barz , Erika Andersson , Vadim Makarov

We prove direct quantum coding theorem for random quantum codes. The problem is separated into two parts: proof of distinguishability of codewords by receiver, and that of indistinguishability of codewords by environment (privacy). For a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-03 Michal Horodecki , Seth Lloyd , Andreas Winter

With powerful parallel computing GPUs and massive user data, neural-network-based deep learning can well exert its strong power in problem modeling and solving, and has archived great success in many applications such as image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Lingchen Zhao , Qian Wang , Qin Zou , Yan Zhang , Yanjiao Chen

Consider two data providers, each maintaining private records of different feature sets about common entities. They aim to learn a linear model jointly in a federated setting, namely, data is local and a shared model is trained from locally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Stephen Hardy , Wilko Henecka , Hamish Ivey-Law , Richard Nock , Giorgio Patrini , Guillaume Smith , Brian Thorne

We extend covert communication to the quantum regime by showing that covert quantum communication is possible over optical channels with noise arising either from the environment or from the sender's lab. In particular, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Valerio Scarani

Recently, increased computational power and data availability, as well as algorithmic advances, have led machine learning techniques to impressive results in regression, classification, data-generation and reinforcement learning tasks.…

Online learning has been in the spotlight from the machine learning society for a long time. To handle massive data in Big Data era, one single learner could never efficiently finish this heavy task. Hence, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Chencheng Li , Pan Zhou

We propose a versatile privacy framework for quantum systems, termed quantum pufferfish privacy (QPP). Inspired by classical pufferfish privacy, our formulation generalizes and addresses limitations of quantum differential privacy by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Theshani Nuradha , Ziv Goldfeld , Mark M. Wilde

The widespread deployment of products powered by machine learning models is raising concerns around data privacy and information security worldwide. To address this issue, Federated Learning was first proposed as a privacy-preserving…

Composition is a cornerstone of classical differential privacy, enabling strong end-to-end guarantees for complex algorithms through composition theorems (e.g., basic and advanced). In the quantum setting, however, privacy is defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Daniel Alabi , Theshani Nuradha

Recently, quantum computing experiments have for the first time exceeded the capability of classical computers to perform certain computations -- a milestone termed "quantum computational advantage." However, verifying the output of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer

Machine learning on encrypted data has received a lot of attention thanks to recent breakthroughs in homomorphic encryption and secure multi-party computation. It allows outsourcing computation to untrusted servers without sacrificing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Theo Ryffel , Edouard Dufour-Sans , Romain Gay , Francis Bach , David Pointcheval