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MarkHughes,BYUUniversity
December8th,2016WIDT007@3:00
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AMachineLearningApproachtoKnotTheory
Inrecentyearsartificialneuralnetworkshavereceivedagreatdealofattentionduetotheirabilitytodetectsubtleand verycomplex
patternsinlargedatasets.Theyhavebecomeanimportantmachinelearningtoolandhavebeenappliedsuccessfullytomany
problems,includingcomputervision,frauddetection,medicaldiagnostics,andfinancialmodeling.
Knotsaretopologicalobjectswhichwerefirststudiedinthe1700s.Theyappearinmodernphysicsandbiology,andplayacrucialrole
inthestudyofthetopologyof3and4dimensionalmanifolds.Numerousalgebraic,geometric,andanalyticinvariantscanbedefined
whichreflectinterestingpropertiesoftheseknots.
InthistalkIwilloutlineanapproachtousingneuralnetworkstomodelknotinvariants.Althoughthesenetworkscanbeusedto
modelavarietyofinvariants,wewillfocusontwowhichareparticularlydifficulttocompute:quasipositivity andtheslicegenus.After
definingtheseinvariantsanddiscussingtheirimportanceinlowdimensionaltopologywewillshowhowtheycanbecomputedand
studiedusingpredictionsmadefromneuralnetworks.Wewillalsooutlineanapproachtousingthesetechniquestouncovernew
algebraicstructureintherelatedknotconcordancegroup.