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The Latent Space of Equational Theories

Logic in Computer Science 2026-01-29 v1

Abstract

Building on the collaborative Equational Theories project initiated by Terence Tao fifteen months ago, and combining it with ideas coming from machine learning and finite model theory, we construct a latent space of equational theories where each equational theory is located at a specific location, determined by its statistical behavior with respect to a large sample of finite magmas. This experiment enables us to observe for the first time how reasoning flows and produces surprisingly oriented and well-structured chains of logical implications in the latent space of equational theories.

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@article{arxiv.2601.20759,
  title  = {The Latent Space of Equational Theories},
  author = {Luis Berlioz and Paul-André Melliès},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.20759},
  year   = {2026}
}

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12 pages, 9 figures