String Theory from Infinite Width Neural Networks
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-01-13 v1
Abstract
We realize bosonic string theory with ensembles of infinite width neural networks. The string tension is tuned by the variance of the output weights. The construction provides a new computation of the foundational Virasoro-Shapiro and Veneziano amplitudes as neural network correlators.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.06249,
title = {String Theory from Infinite Width Neural Networks},
author = {Samuel Frank and James Halverson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.06249},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
4 pages + appendices