Learning a Local Symmetry with Neural-Networks

Abstract

We explore the capacity of neural networks to detect a symmetry with complex local and non-local patterns : the gauge symmetry Z 2 . This symmetry is present in physical problems from topological transitions to QCD, and controls the computational hardness of instances of spin-glasses. Here, we show how to design a neural network, and a dataset, able to learn this symmetry and to find compressed latent representations of the gauge orbits. Our method pays special attention to system-wrapping loops, the so-called Polyakov loops, known to be particularly relevant for computational complexity.

arXiv comment4 pages, 4 figures + appendices

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