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Holography as deep learning

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-11-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

Quantum many-body problem with exponentially large degrees of freedom can be reduced to a tractable computational form by neural network method \cite{CT}. The power of deep neural network (DNN) based on deep learning is clarified by mapping it to renormalization group (RG), which may shed lights on holographic principle by identifying a sequence of RG transformations to the AdS geometry. In this essay, we show that any network which reflects RG process has intrinsic hyperbolic geometry, and discuss the structure of entanglement encoded in the graph of DNN. We find the entanglement structure of deep neural network is of Ryu-Takayanagi form. Based on these facts, we argue that the emergence of holographic gravitational theory is related to deep learning process of the quantum field theory.

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@article{arxiv.1705.05750,
  title  = {Holography as deep learning},
  author = {Wen-Cong Gan and Fu-Wen Shu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.05750},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Received an Honorable Mention on the Gravity Research Foundation's 2017 Essay Competition; v2: typos corrected

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