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We study the quantum fidelity (groundstate overlap) near quantum phase transitions of the Ising universality class in one dimensional (1D) systems of finite size L. Prominent examples occur in magnetic systems (e.g. spin-Peierls, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-30 E. J. König , A. Levchenko , N. Sedlmayr

In a noiseless linear estimation problem, one aims to reconstruct a vector x* from the knowledge of its linear projections y=Phi x*. There have been many theoretical works concentrating on the case where the matrix Phi is a random i.i.d.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-22 Alia Abbara , Antoine Baker , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Approximate message passing (AMP) is a family of iterative algorithms that generalize matrix power iteration. AMP algorithms are known to optimally solve many average-case optimization problems. In this paper, we show that a large class of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Misha Ivkov , Tselil Schramm

Scattering thresholds and their associated spectral square root branch points are ubiquitous in photonics. In this Letter, we show that the scattering matrix has a simple universal behavior near scattering thresholds. We use unitarity,…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-12 Charles C. Wojcik , Haiwen Wang , Meir Orenstein , Shanhui Fan

The intrinsic dynamical complexity of classically chaotic systems enforces a universal description of the transport properties of their wave-mechanical analogues. These universal rules have been established within the framework of linear…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-02 Cheng-Zhen Wang , Rodion Kononchuk , Ulrich Kuhl , Tsampikos Kottos

We study time-reversal symmetry in dynamical systems with finite phase space, with applications to birational maps reduced over finite fields. For a polynomial automorphism with a single family of reversing symmetries, a universal (i.e.,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-13 John A. G. Roberts , Franco Vivaldi

Products of $M$ i.i.d. random matrices of size $N \times N$ are related to classical limit theorems in probability theory ($N=1$ and large $M$), to Lyapunov exponents in dynamical systems (finite $N$ and large $M$), and to universality in…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Dang-Zheng Liu , Dong Wang , Yanhui Wang

In coding and information theory, it is desirable to construct maximal codes that can be either variable length codes or error control codes of fixed length. However deciding code maximality boils down to deciding whether a given NFA is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Stavros Konstantinidis , Mitja Mastnak , Nelma Moreira , Rogério Reis

We establish a universal approximation theorem for signatures of rough paths that are not necessarily weakly geometric. By extending the path with time and its rough path bracket terms, we prove that linear functionals of the signature of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Mihriban Ceylan , Anna P. Kwossek , David J. Prömel

The cavity and TAP equations are high-dimensional systems of nonlinear equations of the local magnetization in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. In the seminal work [Comm. Math. Phys., 325(1):333-366, 2014], Bolthausen introduced an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Wei-Kuo Chen , Si Tang

We study a class of Approximate Message Passing (AMP) algorithms for symmetric and rectangular spiked random matrix models with orthogonally invariant noise. The AMP iterates have fixed dimension $K \geq 1$, a multivariate non-linearity is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Xinyi Zhong , Tianhao Wang , Zhou Fan

We consider dictionary learning and blind calibration for signals and matrices created from a random ensemble. We study the mean-squared error in the limit of large signal dimension using the replica method and unveil the appearance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Florent Krzakala , Marc Mézard , Lenka Zdeborová

This paper studies a Large Language Model's ability to exhibit intelligence equivalent to that of a human by analyzing temperature-induced phase transitions, abrupt changes in the macroscopic behavior of a system, in the Turing test. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-16 Jackson George , Zachariah Yusaf , Stephanie Zoltick , Linh Huynh

Phase transitions and critical phenomena are among the most intriguing phenomena in nature and society. They are classified as first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous ones. While the latter show marvelous phenomena of scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-24 Fan Zhong

Phase transitions, as one of the most intriguing phenomena in nature, are divided into first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous ones in current classification. While the latter shows striking phenomena of scaling and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-21 Yuxiang Zhang , Fan Zhong

LP relaxation-based message passing algorithms provide an effective tool for MAP inference over Probabilistic Graphical Models. However, different LP relaxations often have different objective functions and variables of differing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Zhen Zhang , Qinfeng Shi , Yanning Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Various alignment problems arising in cryo-electron microscopy, community detection, time synchronization, computer vision, and other fields fall into a common framework of synchronization problems over compact groups such as Z/L, U(1), or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Amelia Perry , Alexander S. Wein , Afonso S. Bandeira , Ankur Moitra

We generalize the fractional packing framework of Garg and Koenemann to the case of linear fractional packing problems over polyhedral cones. More precisely, we provide approximation algorithms for problems of the form $\max\{c^T x : Ax…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Michael Holzhauser , Sven O. Krumke

The authors present evidence for universality in numerical computations with random data. Given a (possibly stochastic) numerical algorithm with random input data, the time (or number of iterations) to convergence (within a given tolerance)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Percy Deift , Govind Menon , Sheehan Olver , Thomas Trogdon

Factor graphs have recently gained increasing attention as a unified framework for representing and constructing algorithms for signal processing, estimation, and control. One capability that does not seem to be well explored within the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-22 Eike Petersen , Christian Hoffmann , Philipp Rostalski