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Main Authors: Wang, Yue, He, Guangyi, Zhang, Liepeng, Gonon, Lukas, Zhao, Qi
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28332
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author Wang, Yue
He, Guangyi
Zhang, Liepeng
Gonon, Lukas
Zhao, Qi
author_facet Wang, Yue
He, Guangyi
Zhang, Liepeng
Gonon, Lukas
Zhao, Qi
contents Adversarial training is a standard defense against malicious input perturbations in security-critical machine-learning systems. Its main burden is structural: before every parameter update, the current model must first be attacked to find a new adversarial perturbation, making training increasingly expensive and hard to sustain at large-model scale. Here we give an end-to-end quantum procedure for projected-gradient robust training under local stability and sparsity assumptions. The key step is to reformulate the coupled attacker--learner dynamics as a high-dimensional sparse linear system whose terminal block yields the final network-parameter state. In this formulation, the dominant query cost scales linearly with training time steps, up to logarithmic factors, and polylogarithmically with model size, while the full gate complexity records separate input-preparation and sparse-access overheads. This places core computational tasks for AI security on a concrete quantum footing and identifies a regime in which robust-training overhead can be reduced.
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spellingShingle Efficient Quantum Algorithm for Robust Training
Wang, Yue
He, Guangyi
Zhang, Liepeng
Gonon, Lukas
Zhao, Qi
Quantum Physics
Adversarial training is a standard defense against malicious input perturbations in security-critical machine-learning systems. Its main burden is structural: before every parameter update, the current model must first be attacked to find a new adversarial perturbation, making training increasingly expensive and hard to sustain at large-model scale. Here we give an end-to-end quantum procedure for projected-gradient robust training under local stability and sparsity assumptions. The key step is to reformulate the coupled attacker--learner dynamics as a high-dimensional sparse linear system whose terminal block yields the final network-parameter state. In this formulation, the dominant query cost scales linearly with training time steps, up to logarithmic factors, and polylogarithmically with model size, while the full gate complexity records separate input-preparation and sparse-access overheads. This places core computational tasks for AI security on a concrete quantum footing and identifies a regime in which robust-training overhead can be reduced.
title Efficient Quantum Algorithm for Robust Training
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28332