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Derivation of the AMP equations from belief propagation for the $\ell_2$ minimisation problem

Probability 2026-02-18 v1 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We consider the p\ell_p-minimisation, which consists of finding the vector xRNx\in\mathbb{R}^N which minimises xp\|x\|_p subject to the linear constraint y=Axy=Ax, where yRmy\in\mathbb{R}^m is given and AA is a m×Nm\times N random matrix with i.i.d. sub-Gaussian centred entries (m<Nm<N). This can be viewed as the zero temperature version of a statistical mechanics problem, in which one introduces a suitable Gibbs measure on RN\mathbb{R}^N. To such a Gibbs measure there are associated belief propagation equations. We prove in the easiest case p=2p=2 that the means of the distributions obtained by the belief propagation iteration satisfy asymptotically the approximate message passing equations.

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@article{arxiv.2602.15191,
  title  = {Derivation of the AMP equations from belief propagation for the $\ell_2$ minimisation problem},
  author = {Giuseppe Genovese and Arianna Piana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15191},
  year   = {2026}
}

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