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Holographic entanglement entropy, Wilson loops, and neural networks

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-04-08 v1

Abstract

We apply artificial neural networks to the holographic inverse problem, reconstructing bulk geometry from boundary entanglement entropy by using the Ryu--Takayanagi area functional as a differentiable loss. Validated on the AdS-Schwarzschild background, this approach recovers the blackening factor to 1.7% accuracy. For finite-density backgrounds like the Gubser--Rocha model, we demonstrate that strip entanglement entropy determines only the spatial metric. We resolve this exact one-function degeneracy by incorporating holographic Wilson loop data, which couples to the timelike metric. We present a semi-analytical inversion combining Bilson's and Hashimoto's formulas, alongside a general three-network variational method minimizing the combined area and Nambu--Goto actions. The neural network achieves sub-0.2% accuracy for both metric functions without closed-form derivative relations, establishing a flexible framework for integrating multiple holographic observables.

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@article{arxiv.2604.05970,
  title  = {Holographic entanglement entropy, Wilson loops, and neural networks},
  author = {Veselin G. Filev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05970},
  year   = {2026}
}

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30 pages, 17 figures