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arxivquant-phcs.AIcs.CR2026-07-10

When Routes Run Out: Adversarial Co-Learning and Explainable Robustness in Quantum Repeater Networks

Brennan Bell, Inti Gabriel Mendoza Estrada, Andreas Trügler, Paul Erker

We study an adversarial bandit problem for entanglement-based quantum-network routing over a modest graph corpus. Alice selects an end-to-end repeater route for an Ekert-91 protocol (E91) representing her move, while Eve selects an attack surface, either edge intercept--resend or repeater memory degradation. Payoffs are drawn from cached SeQUeNCe-simulated E91 transcripts, and Alice accepts a turn when the finite-sample statistic violates the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) bound. Performing adversarial co-learning across 50 structured topologies, we find that learned retention tracks a full-matrix minimax reference closely (Pearson $r=0.99$): under a one-surface Eve action model, bottleneck families have zero retention, while non-bottleneck families follow a $1-1/N$ coverage principle. We then fit decision-tree explanation models to graph-, attack-, and route-level topology-corpus targets and report their faithfulness. Finally, we construct prompt records for local language models to summarize the tree evidence, resulting in an open-source explanation workflow for quantum-repeater network games.

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