A neural network approach to predicting and computing knot invariants

DOI10.1142/S0218216520500054zbMATH Open1439.57015arXiv1610.05744OpenAlexW3003920098MaRDI QIDQ5111763FDOQ5111763

Mark C. Hughes

Publication date: 27 May 2020

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we use artificial neural networks to predict and help compute the values of certain knot invariants. In particular, we show that neural networks are able to predict when a knot is quasipositive with a high degree of accuracy. Given a knot with unknown quasipositivity we use these predictions to identify braid representatives that are likely to be quasipositive, which we then subject to further testing to verify. Using these techniques we identify 84 new quasipositive 11 and 12-crossing knots. Furthermore, we show that neural networks are also able to predict and help compute the slice genus and Ozsv'{a}th-Szab'{o} $au$-invariant of knots.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05744

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zbMATH Keywords

neural networksknot invariantsknots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Artificial neural networks and deep learning (68T07) Knot theory (57K10)

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Cited In (5)

• Learning knot invariants across dimensions
• Rectangular knot diagrams classification with deep learning
• Narrowing the gap between combinatorial and hyperbolic knot invariants via deep learning
• Big data approaches to knot theory: Understanding the structure of the Jones polynomial
• Deep learning the hyperbolic volume of a knot

Uses Software

• Theano
• KnotInfo
• Keras
• HFK
• Adam
• GitHub

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