Machine-Learning Dessins dÉnfants: Explorations via Modular and Seiberg-Witten Curves

We apply machine-learning to the study of dessins dénfants. Specifically, we investigate a class of dessins which reside at the intersection of the investigations of modular subgroups, Seiberg-Witten curves and extremal elliptic K3 surfaces. A deep feed-forward neural network with simple structure and standard activation functions without prior knowledge of the underlying mathematics is established and imposed onto the classification of extension degree over the rationals, known to be a difficult problem. The classifications reached 0.92 accuracy with 0.03 standard error relatively quickly. The Seiberg-Witten curves for those with rational coefficients are also tabulated.