Exploring the holographic entropy cone via reinforcement learning
A bstract We develop a reinforcement learning algorithm to study the holographic entropy cone. Given a target entropy vector, our algorithm searches for a graph realization whose min-cut entropies match the target vector. If the target vector does not admit such a graph realization, it must lie outside the cone, in which case the algorithm finds a graph whose corresponding entropy vector most nearly approximates the target and allows us to probe the location of the facets. For the N = 3 cone, we confirm that our algorithm successfully rediscovers monogamy of mutual information beginning with a target vector outside the holographic entropy cone. We then apply the algorithm to the N = 6 cone, analyzing the 6 mystery extreme rays of the subadditivity cone from [1] that satisfy all known holographic entropy inequalities yet lacked graph realizations. We found realizations for 3 of them, proving they are genuine extreme rays of the holographic entropy cone, while providing evidence that the remaining 3 are not realizable, implying unknown holographic inequalities exist for N = 6.
Authors
- Hirosi Ooguri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6021-3778)
- Temple He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2873-3746)
- Jaeha Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9124-450X)
Institutions
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2026-06-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2026)267
- Primary Topic
- Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Simons Foundation
- California Institute of Technology
- Aspen Center for Physics
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- University of Tokyo
- Office of Science
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- RIKEN
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
- High Energy Physics