Machine-Learning Dessins d'Enfants: Explorations via Modular and Seiberg-Witten Curves
Abstract
We apply machine-learning to the study of dessins d'enfants. Specifically, we investigate a class of dessins which reside at the intersection of the investigations of modular subgroups, Seiberg-Witten curves and extremal elliptic K3 surfaces. A deep feed-forward neural network with simple structure and standard activation functions without prior knowledge of the underlying mathematics is established and imposed onto the classification of extension degree over the rationals, known to be a difficult problem. The classifications reached 0.92 accuracy with 0.03 standard error relatively quickly. The Seiberg-Witten curves for those with rational coefficients are also tabulated.
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@article{arxiv.2004.05218,
title = {Machine-Learning Dessins d'Enfants: Explorations via Modular and Seiberg-Witten Curves},
author = {Yang-Hui He and Edward Hirst and Toby Peterken},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.05218},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
60 pages, 197 figures. Acknowledgements updated to reflect thanks to the group at UoAugsburg for highlighting a data analysis problem, that lead authors to identify the dessin d'enfant representation subtlety and use the improved cyclic edge list representation, as in version 3