Navigating the String Landscape with Machine Learning Techniques

ORAL  · Invited

Abstract

String theory is a framework for quantum gravity that seemingly encompasses all necessary features to describe our universe. The study of this theory has yielded significant insights in various domains of physics and mathematics, such as the quantum nature of black holes and the discovery of mirror symmetry. Despite these successes, due to the vast array of possible initial conditions, it remains unclear if we live somewhere in the "string landscape". In this talk, we present efforts to leverage Reinforcement Learning to navigate this landscape and geometrically engineer quasi-realistic models of particle physics. Furthermore, we explore how recent advances in applying neural networks to numerical geometry have enabled the calculation of previously inaccessible properties of the low-energy theory, particularly Yukawa couplings and quark masses.

*This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement PHY-2019786 (The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, http://iaifi.org/).

Publication: Heterotic String Model Building with Monad Bundles and Reinforcement Learning Andrei Constantin, Thomas R. Harvey, Andre Lukas. Fortsch.Phys. 70 (2022) 2-3, 2100186.
Decoding Nature with Nature's Tools: Heterotic Line Bundle Models of Particle Physics with Genetic Algorithms and Quantum Annealing,
Computation of quark masses from string theory, Andrei Constantin, Kit Fraser-Taliente, Thomas R. Harvey, Andre Lukas, Burt Ovrut. Published in: Nucl.Phys.B 1010 (2025) 116778.

Presenters

  • Thomas Harvey

    • MIT

Authors

  • Thomas Harvey

    • MIT