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Learning Euler Factors of Elliptic Curves

Number Theory 2025-02-17 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We apply transformer models and feedforward neural networks to predict Frobenius traces apa_p from elliptic curves given other traces aqa_q. We train further models to predict apmod2a_p \bmod 2 from aqmod2a_q \bmod 2, and cross-analysis such as apmod2a_p \bmod 2 from aqa_q. Our experiments reveal that these models achieve high accuracy, even in the absence of explicit number-theoretic tools like functional equations of LL-functions. We also present partial interpretability findings.

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@article{arxiv.2502.10357,
  title  = {Learning Euler Factors of Elliptic Curves},
  author = {Angelica Babei and François Charton and Edgar Costa and Xiaoyu Huang and Kyu-Hwan Lee and David Lowry-Duda and Ashvni Narayanan and Alexey Pozdnyakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.10357},
  year   = {2025}
}

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18 pages

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