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Uniqueness of Replica-symmetric Saddle Point for Ising Perceptron

Probability 2025-12-30 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study the replica-symmetric saddle point equations for the Ising perceptron with Gaussian disorder and margin κ0\kappa\ge 0. We prove that for each κ0\kappa\ge 0 there is a critical capacity αc(κ)=2πE[(κZ)+2]\alpha_c(\kappa)=\frac{2}{\pi\,\mathbb E[(\kappa-Z)_+^2]}, where ZZ is a standard normal and (x)+=max{x,0}(x)_+=\max\{x,0\}, such that the saddle point equation has a unique solution for α(0,αc(κ))\alpha\in(0,\alpha_c(\kappa)) and has no solution when ααc(κ)\alpha\ge \alpha_c(\kappa). When ααc(κ)\alpha\uparrow \alpha_c(\kappa) and κ>0\kappa>0, the replica-symmetric free energy at this solution diverges to -\infty. In the zero-margin case κ=0\kappa=0, Ding and Sun obtained a conditional uniqueness result, with one step verified numerically. Our argument gives a fully analytic proof without computer assistance. We used GPT-5 to help develop intermediate proof steps and to perform sanity-check computations.

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@article{arxiv.2512.23195,
  title  = {Uniqueness of Replica-symmetric Saddle Point for Ising Perceptron},
  author = {Shuta Nakajima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.23195},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

21 pages. Even though the proof is entirely analytic, we independently perform numerical checks (see https://github.com/njimaMath/research_public/blob/main/perceptronFixed/numerics/numerics_report.pdf)