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Machine learning guides new conjectures in pure mathematics
Machine learning guides new conjectures in pure mathematics.
Summary
The Nature paper describes a workflow in which mathematicians used supervised learning and attribution techniques to guide intuition in knot theory and representation theory. The authors report a new connection between algebraic and geometric knot invariants and progress on the combinatorial invariance conjecture for symmetric groups.
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