papersSEP 10 04:00 UTC
Reinforcement learning pipeline untangles hard knots via Reidemeister moves
Researchers have trained a reinforcement learning agent to reduce complicated knot diagrams to simpler forms by selecting move proposals and a guiding value heuristic. The system generalizes to arbitrary knots and links and performs well on notoriously difficult unknots, with the paper also probing unknotting number as a benchmark.