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Exploring the holographic entropy cone via reinforcement learning

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-14 v2 Machine Learning Quantum Physics

Abstract

We develop a reinforcement learning algorithm to study the holographic entropy cone. Given a target entropy vector, our algorithm searches for a graph realization whose min-cut entropies match the target vector. If the target vector does not admit such a graph realization, it must lie outside the cone, in which case the algorithm finds a graph whose corresponding entropy vector most nearly approximates the target and allows us to probe the location of the facets. For the N=3\sf N=3 cone, we confirm that our algorithm successfully rediscovers monogamy of mutual information beginning with a target vector outside the holographic entropy cone. We then apply the algorithm to the N=6\sf N=6 cone, analyzing the 6 "mystery" extreme rays of the subadditivity cone from arXiv:2412.15364 that satisfy all known holographic entropy inequalities yet lacked graph realizations. We found realizations for 3 of them, proving they are genuine extreme rays of the holographic entropy cone, while providing evidence that the remaining 3 are not realizable, implying unknown holographic inequalities exist for N=6\sf N=6.

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@article{arxiv.2601.19979,
  title  = {Exploring the holographic entropy cone via reinforcement learning},
  author = {Temple He and Jaeha Lee and Hirosi Ooguri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.19979},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

39 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables; v2: minor clarifications, version appearing in JHEP

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