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Hamilton-Jacobi equations for mean-field disordered systems

Probability 2018-11-13 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We argue that Hamilton-Jacobi equations provide a convenient and intuitive approach for studying the large-scale behavior of mean-field disordered systems. This point of view is illustrated on the problem of inference of a rank-one matrix. We compute the large-scale limit of the free energy by showing that it satisfies an approximate Hamilton-Jacobi equation with asymptotically vanishing viscosity parameter and error term.

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@article{arxiv.1811.01432,
  title  = {Hamilton-Jacobi equations for mean-field disordered systems},
  author = {Jean-Christophe Mourrat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.01432},
  year   = {2018}
}

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29 pages, v2: tensor case added

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