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Adversarial robustness has proven to be a required property of machine learning algorithms. A key and often overlooked aspect of this problem is to try to make the adversarial noise magnitude as large as possible to enhance the benefits of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-31 Amirreza Shaeiri , Rozhin Nobahari , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Quantum computers connected through classical and quantum communication channels can be combined to function as a single unit to run large quantum circuits that each device is unable to execute on their own. The distributed quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Leo Sünkel , Michael Kölle , Tobias Rohe , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

We address the characterization of classical fractional random noise via quantum probes. In particular, we focus on estimation and discrimination problems involving the fractal dimension of the trajectories of a system subject to fractional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Matteo G. A. Paris

Quantum computers are inherently affected by noise. While in the long-term error correction codes will account for noise at the cost of increasing physical qubits, in the near-term the performance of any quantum algorithm should be tested…

We investigate the amount of noise required to turn a universal quantum gate set into one that can be efficiently modelled classically. This question is useful for providing upper bounds on fault tolerant thresholds, and for understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Virmani , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Over recent years, devising classification algorithms that are robust to adversarial perturbations has emerged as a challenging problem. In particular, deep neural nets (DNNs) seem to be susceptible to small imperceptible changes over test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Sanjam Garg , Somesh Jha , Saeed Mahloujifar , Mohammad Mahmoody

Deep neural networks unlocked a vast range of new applications by solving tasks of which many were previously deemed as reserved to higher human intelligence. One of the developments enabling this success was a boost in computing power…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Nadezhda Semenova , Laurent Larger , Daniel Brunner

When quantum programs are executed on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers, they experience hardware noise; consequently, the program outputs are often erroneous. To mitigate the adverse effects of hardware noise, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Tirthak Patel , Daniel Silver , Devesh Tiwari

Quantum subspace diagonalization and quantum Krylov algorithms offer a feasible, pre- or early-fault tolerant alternative to quantum phase estimation for using quantum computers to estimate the low-lying spectra of quantum systems. However,…

Motivated by realistic hardware considerations of the pre-fault-tolerant era, we comprehensively study the impact of uncorrected noise on quantum circuits. We first show that any noise `truncates' most quantum circuits to effectively…

Sampling from a probability distribution is a core task in many quantum and classical algorithms. Variational quantum circuits provide a natural approach to generating such distributions, as measurement outcomes directly define the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ronit Raj , Kshitij Durge , Manish Mallapur , Rohit Taeja Kumar , Ankur Raina

Quantum noise is conventionally viewed as a fundamental obstacle in near-term quantum computing, motivating extensive error correction and mitigation strategies. We present numerical evidence that challenges this consensus. Through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Linghua Zhu , Yulong Dong , Ziyu Zhang , Xiaosong Li

The numerical emulation of quantum physics and quantum chemistry often involves an intractable number of degrees of freedom and admits no known approximation in general form. In practice, representing quantum-mechanical states using…

Quantum mechanics is inherently probabilistic in light of Born's rule. Using quantum circuits as probabilistic generative models for classical data exploits their superior expressibility and efficient direct sampling ability. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Jinfeng Zeng , Yufeng Wu , Jin-Guo Liu , Lei Wang , Jiangping Hu

Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks (QGANs), an intersection of quantum computing and machine learning, have attracted widespread attention due to their potential advantages over classical analogs. However, in the current era of Noisy…

We revisit the practical implementation of high-dimensional quantum key distribution protocol using path entanglement reported in [Phys.Rev.Lett.~127,~110505,~2021]. Here we refine the noise robustness analysis performed there by simulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-22 Oskár Adam Válent , Matej Pivoluska

The construction of robust and scalable quantum gates is a uniquely hard problem in the field of quantum computing. Real-world quantum computers suffer from many forms of noise, characterized by the decoherence and relaxation times of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Diego Fuentealba , Jack Dahn , James Steck , Elizabeth Behrman

Expectation Value Samplers (EVSs) are quantum generative models that can learn high-dimensional continuous distributions by measuring the expectation values of parameterized quantum circuits. However, these models can demand impractical…

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can fool deep models by adding subtle perturbations. Although existing attacks have achieved promising results, it still leaves a long way to go for generating transferable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yexin Duan , Junhua Zou , Xingyu Zhou , Wu Zhang , Jin Zhang , Zhisong Pan

Dielectric four-port devices play an important role in optical quantum information processing. Since for causality reasons the permittivity is a complex function of frequency, dielectrics are typical examples of noisy quantum channels,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Stefan Scheel , Ludwig Knoll , Tomas Opatrny , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch