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We analyze a cryptographic protocol for generating a distributed secret key from correlations that violate a Bell inequality by a sufficient amount, and prove its security against eavesdroppers, constrained only by the assumption that any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Ll. Masanes , R. Renner , M. Christandl , A. Winter , J. Barrett

Encrypted control has been extensively studied to ensure the confidentiality of system states and control inputs for networked control systems. This paper presents a computationally efficient encrypted control framework for networked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Zihao Ren , Daniel Quevedo , Salah Sukkarieh , Guodong Shi

Distributed quantum information processing seeks to overcome the scalability limitations of monolithic quantum devices by interconnecting multiple quantum processing nodes via classical and quantum communication. This approach extends the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Johannes Knörzer , Xiaoyu Liu , Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

Secret sharing, in which a dealer wants to split a secret in such a way that any unauthorized subset of parties is unable to reconstruct it, plays a key role in cryptography. The security of quantum protocols for the task is guaranteed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Kejin Wei , Xiuqing Yang , Haiqiang Ma , Changhua Zhu

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is a cryptographic protocol that leverages quantum mechanics to distribute a secret among multiple parties. With respect to the classical counterpart, in QSS the secret is encoded into quantum states and shared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Alessio Di Santo , Walter Tiberti , Dajana Cassioli

We propose a general learning framework for the protection mechanisms that protects privacy via distorting model parameters, which facilitates the trade-off between privacy and utility. The algorithm is applicable to arbitrary privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xiaojin Zhang , Wenjie Li , Kai Chen , Shutao Xia , Qiang Yang

Combining data from varied sources has considerable potential for knowledge discovery: collaborating data parties can mine data in an expanded feature space, allowing them to explore a larger range of scientific questions. However, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Erik-Jan van Kesteren , Chang Sun , Daniel L. Oberski , Michel Dumontier , Lianne Ippel

We study quantum differential privacy (QDP) by defining a notion of the order of informativeness between pairs of quantum states. In particular, we show that if the hypothesis testing divergence of one pair dominates over that of the other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi , Ayanava Dasgupta , Masahito Hayashi

Characterization of quantum processes is a preliminary step necessary in the development of quantum technology. The conventional method uses standard quantum process tomography, which requires $d^2$ input states and $d^4$ quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Zhibo Hou , Jun-Feng Tang , Christopher Ferrie , Guo-Yong Xiang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Differentially-private histograms have emerged as a key tool for location privacy. While past mechanisms have included theoretical & experimental analysis, it has recently been observed that much of the existing literature does not fully…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Maryam Fanaeepour , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Federated learning enables decentralized, privacy-preserving training but remains vulnerable to privacy leakage in the quantum era. Quantum federated learning (QFL) offers a promising path towards enhanced security and efficiency. However,…

We provide tools for sharing sensitive data when the data curator does not know in advance what questions an (untrusted) analyst might ask about the data. The analyst can specify a program that they want the curator to run on the dataset.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ephraim Linder , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith , Thomas Steinke

It is critically important to analyze the achievability of quantum advantage under realistic imperfections. In this work, we show that quantum advantage in distributed sensing can be achieved with noisy quantum networks which can only…

By enabling multiple agents to cooperatively solve a global optimization problem in the absence of a central coordinator, decentralized stochastic optimization is gaining increasing attention in areas as diverse as machine learning,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Yongqiang Wang , Tamer Basar

With the emergence of smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT) devices as well as deep learning technologies have witnessed an increasing adoption. To support the requirements of such paradigm in terms of memory and computation, joint and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi , Mohsen Guizani

In order to both learn and protect sensitive training data, there has been a growing interest in privacy preserving machine learning methods. Differential privacy has emerged as an important measure of privacy. We are interested in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Antoine Barczewski , Amal Mawass , Jan Ramon

Quantum resources enable secure quantum sensing (SQS) of remote systems, offering significant advantages in precision and security. However, decoherence in the quantum communication channel and during the evolution of quantum states can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Muhammad Talha Rahim , Saif Al-Kuwari , Mahmood Irtiza Hussain , Asad Ali

While it is usually known that the mean value of a single observable is enough to detect entanglement or its distillability, the counterpart of such an approach in the case of quatum privacy has been missing. Here we develop the concept of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Konrad Banaszek , Karol Horodecki , Paweł Horodecki