Quantum Adversarial Learning for Kernel Methods
Giuseppe Montalbano Leonardo Banchi
We show that hybrid quantum classifiers based on quantum kernel methods and
support vector machines are vulnerable against adversarial attacks, namely
small engineered perturbations of the input data can deceive the classifier
into predicting the wrong result. Nonetheless, we also show that simple defence
strategies based on data augmentation with a few crafted perturbations can make
the classifier robust against new attacks. Our results find applications in
security-critical learning problems and in mitigating the effect of some forms
of quantum noise, since the attacker can also be understood as part of the
surrounding environment.