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Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-Reward Search in Commutative Algebra
Giorgi Butbaia, Paul Orland, Coco Huang +7
Applying machine learning techniques to solving long-standing mathematical conjectures can be particularly challenging due to their extreme reward sparsity. As an illustrative exam…
The Two-Hump Problem: Bridging the Difficulty Gap in Mathematical Reinforcement Learning
Lucas Fagan, Michele Tarquini, Ali Shehper +6
Mathematical search problems present a unique challenge for Reinforcement Learning (RL) due to vast search spaces and sparse rewards. In previous works, the Andrews-Curtis (AC) con…
A Training-Time Diagnostic for Generalization via the Log-Alignment Ratio
Ali Shehper, Ashish Vaswani
We study the log-alignment ratio (LAR), a measure of parameter-activation alignment, introduced in parameterization theory. We reformulate it as the overlap between a weight spectr…
What makes math problems hard for reinforcement learning: a case study
Ali Shehper, Anibal M. Medina-Mardones, Lucas Fagan +6
Using a long-standing conjecture from combinatorial group theory, we explore, from multiple perspectives, the challenges of finding rare instances carrying disproportionately high…
Nonabelian Twists of the Theory
Jacques Distler, Behzat Ergun, Ali Shehper
We study theories of type in class-S, with nonabelian outer-automorphism twists around various cycles of the punctured Riemann surface . We propose an extension of previou…
Symmetries of 2d TQFTs and Equivariant Verlinde Formulae for General Groups
Sergei Gukov, Du Pei, Charles Reid +1
We study (generalized) discrete symmetries of 2d semisimple TQFTs. These are 2d TQFTs whose fusion rules can be diagonalized. We show that, in this special basis, the 0-form symmet…
Distinquishing 4d N=2 SCFTs
Jacques Distler, Behzat Ergun, Ali Shehper
We construct a family of examples of pairs of 4d N=2 SCFTs whose graded Coulomb branch dimensions, Weyl-anomaly coefficients and flavour symmetry algebras and levels coincide, but…
Deformations of surface defect moduli spaces
Andrew Neitzke, Ali Shehper
Given a 4d supersymmetric theory with an supersymmetric surface defect, a marginal perturbation of the bulk theory induces a complex structure…