Machine learning string standard models

Abstract

We study machine learning of phenomenologically relevant properties of string compactifications, which arise in the context of heterotic line bundle models. Both supervised and unsupervised learning are considered. We find that, for a fixed compactification manifold, relatively small neural networks are capable of distinguishing consistent line bundle models with the correct gauge group and the correct chiral asymmetry from random models without these properties. The same distinction can also be achieved in the context of unsupervised learning, using an autoencoder. Learning nontopological properties, specifically the number of Higgs multiplets, turns out to be more difficult, but is possible using sizeable networks and feature-enhanced datasets.