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DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots

The machine-learning techniques could benefit other areas of maths that involve large data sets.
  1. Davide Castelvecchi
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For the first time, machine learning has spotted mathematical connections that humans had missed. Researchers at artificial-intelligence powerhouse DeepMind, based in London, teamed up with mathematicians to tackle two separate problems — one in the theory of knots and the other in the study of symmetries. In both cases, AI techniques helped the researchers discover new patterns that could then be investigated using conventional methods.

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Nature 600, 202 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03593-1

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  1. Davies, A. et al. Nature 600, 70–74 (2021).

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  2. Davies, A., Juhász, A., Lackenby, M. & Tomasev, N. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15323 (2021).

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