Chinese team makes record-breaking advances on ‘kissing number’ using a reinforcement learning system called PackingStar
The work done by the team was like a “romance” between machines and humans exploring science together, they said in a video posted by Peking University on Saturday.
“These results showcase AI’s power to understand high-dimensional geometry, reshape established mathematical intuitions, and drive progress on century-old geometry problems,” the team said in a paper first published in the open-access online research repository arXiv in November.
The preprint paper – meaning it has not undergone peer review – was written by researchers from Peking University, Fudan University, and the Shanghai Academy of AI for Science (SAIS).
