Observational Indistinguishability and Integrity Blind Regions in Hybrid Quantum-Classical Workflows

arXiv:2609.17150 · cs.CR, quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, quant-ph

Submitted: 2026-09-15

Updated: 2026-09-15

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. Supplementary material (20 pages) is available as an ancillary file. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Reproducibility artifact: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22750616

Code: https://github.com/roberto-fernandez-barrios/target-domain-certificates

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 25× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Provenance — 18× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Exchangeability — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verification — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Computer and Communications Security — 3× in this paper
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• AUC — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Automated Software Engineering — 2× in this paper
• Conformal Prediction — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Quantum Circuits — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptive Response — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Attacks — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Algebraic Invariants — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Fingerprinting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Frozen model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hardware Oriented Security and Trust — 1× in this paper
• Hybrid System — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Jensen–Shannon Divergence (JSD) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Non-stationarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• QCIVET: A Quantum--Classical Pipeline Integrity Framework with Contract-Based Subtype Verification and Hash-Chained Audit Traces
• QML-PipeGuard: Drift-Aware Behavioral Fingerprinting for Quantum Machine Learning Pipeline Integrity
• Evidence Sufficiency Under Delayed Ground Truth: Proxy Monitoring for Risk Decision Systems
• Pervasive Label Errors in Test Sets Destabilize Machine Learning Benchmarks
• Evaluation Blindness: How Silent Measurement Failures Corrupt AI Systems from Training to Deployment
• A Multi-Level Integrity Evaluation Framework for Quantum Circuits under Controlled Anomaly Injection
• Toward Standardized Quantum Provenance: A Cross-Provider Analysis, Unified API, and Reference Prototype
• CertiQ: A Mostly-automated Verification of a Realistic Quantum Compiler
• Candidate Comparability Before Promotion: Conditional Validation in Adaptive Network Intrusion Detection
• Quantum computing with Qiskit

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