Conformal Fields from Neural Networks
Abstract
We use the embedding formalism to construct conformal fields in dimensions, by restricting Lorentz-invariant ensembles of homogeneous neural networks in dimensions to the projective null cone. Conformal correlators may be computed using the parameter space description of the neural network. Exact four-point correlators are computed in a number of examples, and we perform a 4D conformal block decomposition that elucidates the spectrum. In some examples the analysis is facilitated by recent approaches to Feynman integrals. Generalized free CFTs are constructed using the infinite-width Gaussian process limit of the neural network, enabling a realization of the free boson. The extension to deep networks constructs conformal fields at each subsequent layer, with recursion relations relating their conformal dimensions and four-point functions. Numerical approaches are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.12222,
title = {Conformal Fields from Neural Networks},
author = {James Halverson and Joydeep Naskar and Jiahua Tian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12222},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
v1: 48 pages; v2 60 pages (journal version)