Neurons on Amoebae
This work applies existing ML methods to a new domain (algebraic geometry/string theory), making it incremental but potentially useful for researchers in those fields.
The paper tackles the problem of studying 2-dimensional amoebae in algebraic geometry and string theory using machine learning methods, achieving up to ~99% accuracy in recovering conditions from lopsidedness and over 90% accuracy in predicting genus at lower computational cost.
We apply methods of machine-learning, such as neural networks, manifold learning and image processing, in order to study 2-dimensional amoebae in algebraic geometry and string theory. With the help of embedding manifold projection, we recover complicated conditions obtained from so-called lopsidedness. For certain cases it could even reach $\sim99\%$ accuracy, in particular for the lopsided amoeba of $F_0$ with positive coefficients which we place primary focus. Using weights and biases, we also find good approximations to determine the genus for an amoeba at lower computational cost. In general, the models could easily predict the genus with over $90\%$ accuracies. With similar techniques, we also investigate the membership problem, and image processing of the amoebae directly.