From 23e4d1f197237f903a5843bc03f62f8c36cc3288 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: s-ddavydenko <113129076+s-ddavydenko@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 09:36:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] shallow copy of input_params

---
 azure-quantum/azure/quantum/target/target.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/azure-quantum/azure/quantum/target/target.py b/azure-quantum/azure/quantum/target/target.py
index d878d4f4..21d58c39 100644
--- a/azure-quantum/azure/quantum/target/target.py
+++ b/azure-quantum/azure/quantum/target/target.py
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ def submit(
         if isinstance(input_params, InputParams):
             input_params = input_params.as_dict()
         else:
-            input_params = input_params or {}
+            input_params = dict(input_params) if input_params is not None else {}
         input_data_format = None
         output_data_format = None
         content_type = None

From 6f1dc1dd12fa5bae7116c4f2628fea61f13a6052 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: s-ddavydenko <113129076+s-ddavydenko@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 14:19:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] deep_copy

---
 azure-quantum/azure/quantum/target/target.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/azure-quantum/azure/quantum/target/target.py b/azure-quantum/azure/quantum/target/target.py
index 21d58c39..ce4b5d1b 100644
--- a/azure-quantum/azure/quantum/target/target.py
+++ b/azure-quantum/azure/quantum/target/target.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import json
 import abc
 import warnings
+import copy
 
 from azure.quantum._client.models import TargetStatus
 from azure.quantum.job.job import Job
@@ -238,7 +239,7 @@ def submit(
         if isinstance(input_params, InputParams):
             input_params = input_params.as_dict()
         else:
-            input_params = dict(input_params) if input_params is not None else {}
+            input_params = copy.deepcopy(input_params or {})
         input_data_format = None
         output_data_format = None
         content_type = None