AI RESEARCH

TriSearch: Learning to Optimize Triangulations via Bistellar Flips

arXiv CS.LG

We introduce TriSearch, a reinforcement learning framework for optimizing objectives over triangulations of a polytope via bistellar flips. The key idea is a circuit-supported subtriangulation action representation: feasible flips are encoded by their supporting circuit and realized local subtriangulation, enabling a learned policy to rank them using local geometric and combinatorial features. This yields a dimension-agnostic interface and enables efficient traversal of the flip graph without ex