Zhang Jun-Jie, Meng Deyu
Division of Computational physics and Intelligent modeling, Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi'an 710024, China.
School of Mathematics and Statistics and Ministry of Education Key Lab of Intelligent Networks and Network Security, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
Natl Sci Rev. 2024 Apr 11;11(9):nwae141. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwae141. eCollection 2024 Sep.
Neural networks demonstrate vulnerability to small, non-random perturbations, emerging as adversarial attacks. Such attacks, born from the gradient of the loss function relative to the input, are discerned as input conjugates, revealing a systemic fragility within the network structure. Intriguingly, a mathematical congruence manifests between this mechanism and the quantum physics' uncertainty principle, casting light on a hitherto unanticipated interdisciplinarity. This inherent susceptibility within neural network systems is generally intrinsic, highlighting not only the innate vulnerability of these networks, but also suggesting potential advancements in the interdisciplinary area for understanding these black-box networks.