English

Performance of simulated annealing in p-spin glasses

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2013-12-17 v1

Abstract

We perform careful numerical simulations of slow Monte-Carlo annealings in the dense 3-body spin glass model and compare with the predictions from different theories: thresholds states, isocomplexity, following state. We conclude that while isocomplexity and following state both provide excellent agreement the numerical data, the influence of threshold states -- that is still the most commonly considered theory -- can be excluded from our data.

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@article{arxiv.1309.1736,
  title  = {Performance of simulated annealing in p-spin glasses},
  author = {Florent Krzakala and Lenka Zdeborova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1736},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

7 pages, 7 figures, International Meeting on "Inference, Computation, and Spin Glasses" (ICSG2013), Sapporo, Japan