2 papers
math.GT2026
RL unknotter, hard unknots and unknotting number
Anne Dranowski, Yura Kabkov, Daniel Tubbenhauer
We develop a reinforcement learning pipeline for simplifying knot diagrams. A trained agent learns move proposals and a value heuristic for navigating Reidemeister moves. The pipel…
cs.LG2025
On knot detection via picture recognition
Anne Dranowski, Yura Kabkov, Daniel Tubbenhauer
Our goal is to one day take a photo of a knot and have a phone automatically recognize it. In this expository work, we explain a strategy to approximate this goal, using a mixture…