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Quantum Advantage in Locally Differentially Private Hypothesis Testing

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Seung-Hyun Nam
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Hyun-Young Park
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Si-Hyeon Lee
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Joonwoo Bae
DOI:10.1109/JSAC.2026.3709807delete
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We consider a private hypothesis testing scenario, including both symmetric and asymmetric testing, based on classical data samples. The utility is measured by the error exponents, namely the Chernoff information and the relative entropy, while privacy is measured in terms of classical or quantum local differential privacy. In this scenario, we show a quantum advantage with respect to the optimal privacy-utility trade-off (PUT) in certain cases. Specifically, we focus on distributions referred to as smoothed point mass distributions, along with the uniform distribution, as hypotheses. We then derive upper bounds on the optimal PUTs achievable by classical privacy mechanisms, which are tight in specific instances. To show the quantum advantage, we propose a particular quantum privacy mechanism that achieves better PUTs than these upper bounds in both symmetric and asymmetric testing, specifically under stringent privacy constraints and small discrete data alphabet sizes ranging from 3 to 9. The proposed mechanism consists of a classical-quantum channel that prepares symmetric informationally complete (SIC) states, followed by a depolarizing channel.
Keywords:
Quantum advantage
quantum local differential privacy
hypothesis testing

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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications cover
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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