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Statistical and computational phase transitions in spiked tensor estimation

Statistics Theory 2020-01-22 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Information Theory math.IT Statistics Theory

Abstract

We consider tensor factorizations using a generative model and a Bayesian approach. We compute rigorously the mutual information, the Minimal Mean Squared Error (MMSE), and unveil information-theoretic phase transitions. In addition, we study the performance of Approximate Message Passing (AMP) and show that it achieves the MMSE for a large set of parameters, and that factorization is algorithmically "easy" in a much wider region than previously believed. It exists, however, a "hard" region where AMP fails to reach the MMSE and we conjecture that no polynomial algorithm will improve on AMP.

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@article{arxiv.1701.08010,
  title  = {Statistical and computational phase transitions in spiked tensor estimation},
  author = {Thibault Lesieur and Léo Miolane and Marc Lelarge and Florent Krzakala and Lenka Zdeborová},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.08010},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

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