Machine learning in the string landscape
Machine learning in the string landscape
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DOI:
10.1007/jhep09(2017)157
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发表时间:
2017-09-28
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Nelson, Brent D.
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作者:
Carifio, Jonathan;Halverson, James;Nelson, Brent D.
We utilize machine learning to study the string landscape. Deep data dives and conjecture generation are proposed as useful frameworks for utilizing machine learning in the landscape, and examples of each are presented. A decision tree accurately predicts the number of weak Fano toric threefolds arising from reflexive polytopes, each of which determines a smooth F-theory compactification, and linear regression generates a previously proven conjecture for the gauge group rank in an ensemble of 4/3 x 2.96 x 10(755) F-theory compactifications. Logistic regression generates a new conjecture for when E-6 arises in the large ensemble of F-theory compactifications, which is then rigorously proven. This result may be relevant for the appearance of visible sectors in the ensemble. Through conjecture generation, machine learning is useful not only for numerics, but also for rigorous results.