Summary of A Comparative Analysis Of Adversarial Robustness For Quantum and Classical Machine Learning Models, by Maximilian Wendlinger et al.
A Comparative Analysis of Adversarial Robustness for Quantum and Classical Machine Learning Models
by Maximilian Wendlinger, Kilian Tscharke, Pascal Debus
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a comprehensive study on the adversarial robustness of classical and quantum machine learning (QML) models. Specifically, it investigates the similarities and differences in their vulnerability to attacks using transfer attacks, perturbation patterns, and Lipschitz bounds. The authors focus on classification tasks on a handcrafted dataset that enables quantitative analysis for feature attribution. They compare typical QML model architectures with classical ConvNet architecture and introduce a classical approximation of QML circuits (Fourier network) to evaluate its performance. The findings show that the Fourier network serves as a “middle ground” between quantum and classical models, demonstrating successful transfer attacks in both directions. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper explores how well quantum and classical machine learning models can withstand attacks. It compares these two types of models by testing different ways they process information. The researchers create their own dataset to analyze this and find that a special kind of model (Fourier network) can be thought of as an in-between version of the two extremes. This means that both quantum and classical attacks work on this middle ground, which has important implications for how we make these models more robust. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Machine learning
