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QTrojan: A Circuit Backdoor Against Quantum Neural Networks

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arxiv 2302.08090 v1 pith:PK5AMLHD submitted 2023-02-16 quant-ph cs.AIcs.CR

QTrojan: A Circuit Backdoor Against Quantum Neural Networks

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We propose a circuit-level backdoor attack, \textit{QTrojan}, against Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) in this paper. QTrojan is implemented by few quantum gates inserted into the variational quantum circuit of the victim QNN. QTrojan is much stealthier than a prior Data-Poisoning-based Backdoor Attack (DPBA), since it does not embed any trigger in the inputs of the victim QNN or require the access to original training datasets. Compared to a DPBA, QTrojan improves the clean data accuracy by 21\% and the attack success rate by 19.9\%.

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