2 papers
math.GT2026
Computations of the slice genus and the unknotting number of links via machine learning
Yutong Dai, Oliver Hayman, András Juhász +1
Links are disjoint unions of circles smoothly embedded in . We use reinforcement learning and Bayesian optimisation to obtain new upper bounds on several link invariants that…
math.GT2024
The unknotting number, hard unknot diagrams, and reinforcement learning
Taylor Applebaum, Sam Blackwell, Alex Davies +5
We have developed a reinforcement learning agent that often finds a minimal sequence of unknotting crossing changes for a knot diagram with up to 200 crossings, hence giving an upp…