fashion-mnist-67ace726·1 events·first seen Aliases: Fashion-MNIST
Researchers introduce Q-DIBA, the first input-aware dynamic backdoor attack targeting Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs), addressing limitations of prior fixed-trigger quantum backdoor methods. The approach jointly trains a classical trigger generator and a victim QNN using a three-mode mini-batch strategy and an ensemble density contrastive loss operating on post-ansatz quantum states before measurement. Experiments on MNIST and Fashion-MNIST demonstrate high attack success rates, stealthiness, and resilience against defenses including spectral-signature detection and fine-tuning. The work highlights a novel security threat relevant to near-term quantum machine learning deployments.