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Spin-glasses are natural Gibbs distributions that have been studied in Theoretical CS for many decades. Recently, they have been gaining attention from the community as they emerge naturally in neural computation and learning, network…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Charilaos Efthymiou , Kostas Zampetakis

We consider Ising mixed $p$-spin glasses at high-temperature and without external field, and study the problem of sampling from the Gibbs distribution $\mu$ in polynomial time. We develop a new sampling algorithm with complexity of the same…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Ahmed El Alaoui , Andrea Montanari , Mark Sellke

We devise a deterministic algorithm to efficiently sample high-quality solutions of certain spin-glass systems that encode hard optimization problems. We employ tensor networks to represent the Gibbs distribution of all possible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-07 Marek M. Rams , Masoud Mohseni , Daniel Eppens , Konrad Jałowiecki , Bartłomiej Gardas

We consider the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses at high-temperature and no external field, and study the problem of sampling from the Gibbs distribution $\mu$ in polynomial time. We prove that, for any inverse temperature…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Ahmed El Alaoui , Andrea Montanari , Mark Sellke

We present a simple algorithm that perfectly samples configurations from the unique Gibbs measure of a spin system on a potentially infinite graph $G$. The sampling algorithm assumes strong spatial mixing together with subexponential growth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Konrad Anand , Mark Jerrum

Local samplers are algorithms that generate random samples based on local queries to high-dimensional distributions, ensuring the samples follow the correct induced distributions while maintaining time complexity that scales locally with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hongyang Liu , Chunyang Wang , Yitong Yin

Spin-glasses are Gibbs distributions that have been studied in CS for many decades. Recently, they have gained renewed attention as they emerge naturally in learning, inference, optimisation etc. We consider the Edwards-Anderson (EA)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Charilaos Efthymiou , Kostas Zampetakis

Sampling-based algorithms are classical approaches to perform Bayesian inference in inverse problems. They provide estimators with the associated credibility intervals to quantify the uncertainty on the estimators. Although these methods…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-28 Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin , Audrey Repetti , Pierre Chainais

This paper deals with Gibbs samplers that include high dimensional conditional Gaussian distributions. It proposes an efficient algorithm that avoids the high dimensional Gaussian sampling and relies on a random excursion along a small set…

Computation · Statistics 2016-04-20 Olivier Féron , François Orieux , Jean-François Giovannelli

We consider the problem of algorithmically sampling from the Gibbs measure of a mixed $p$-spin spherical spin glass. We give a polynomial-time algorithm that samples from the Gibbs measure up to vanishing total variation error, for any…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Brice Huang , Andrea Montanari , Huy Tuan Pham

We prove that the empirical density of states of quantum spin glasses on arbitrary graphs converges to a normal distribution as long as the maximal degree is negligible compared with the total number of edges. This extends the recent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 László Erdős , Dominik Schröder

Efficient sampling from a classical Gibbs distribution is an important computational problem with applications ranging from statistical physics over Monte Carlo and optimization algorithms to machine learning. We introduce a family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Dominik S. Wild , Dries Sels , Hannes Pichler , Cristian Zanoci , Mikhail D. Lukin

Identifying the underlying models in a set of data points contaminated by noise and outliers, leads to a highly complex multi-model fitting problem. This problem can be posed as a clustering problem by the projection of higher order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Ruwan Tennakoon , Alireza Sadri , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

A sampling algorithm is presented that generates spin glass configurations of the 2D Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass at finite temperature, with probabilities proportional to their Boltzmann weights. Such an algorithm overcomes the slow…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Creighton K. Thomas , A. Alan Middleton

Spin glasses are fundamental probability distributions at the core of statistical physics, the theory of average-case computational complexity, and modern high-dimensional statistical inference. In the mean-field setting, we design…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ferenc Bencs , Brice Huang , Daniel Z. Lee , Kuikui Liu , Guus Regts

In this paper, we show that the replica symmetry of the Gibbs measure of spherical spin systems is a property of the eigenvalue spacing at the edge of the interaction matrix. In particular, our interaction matrix has \textbf{two} large…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Debapratim Banerjee , Debabrata Jana

We present a quantum algorithm that has rigorous runtime guarantees for several families of binary optimization problems, including Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO), Ising spin glasses ($p$-spin model), and $k$-local…

The authors present empirical distributions for the halting time (measured by the number of iterations to reach a given accuracy) of optimization algorithms applied to two random systems: spin glasses and deep learning. Given an algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Levent Sagun , Thomas Trogdon , Yann LeCun

We present a perfect marginal sampler of the unique Gibbs measure of a spin system on $\mathbb Z^2$. The algorithm is an adaptation of a previous `lazy depth-first' approach by the authors, but relaxes the requirement of strong spatial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Konrad Anand , Mark Jerrum

Motivated by the theory of spin-glasses in physics, we study the so-called reconstruction problem for the related distributions on the tree, and on the sparse random graph $G(n,d/n)$. Both cases, reduce naturally to studying broadcasting…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Charilaos Efthymiou , Kostas Zampetakis
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