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Spin glasses have competing interactions that lead to a rough energy landscape which is highly susceptible to small perturbations. These chaotic effects strongly affect numerical simulations and, as such, gaining a deeper understanding of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-06-14 Wenlong Wang , Jonathan Machta , Helmut G. Katzgraber

Ground states of the three dimensional Edwards-Anderson spin glass are computed in the presence of an external magnetic field. Our algorithm is sufficiently powerful for us to treat systems with up to 600 spins. We perform a statistical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Houdayer , O. C. Martin

Spin-glasses are universal models that can capture complex behavior of many-body systems at the interface of statistical physics and computer science including discrete optimization, inference in graphical models, and automated reasoning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Gavin S. Hartnett , Masoud Mohseni

We derive exact analytical expressions for the ground-state energy and entropy of the two-dimensional $\pm J$ Ising spin glass, uncovering a nested hierarchy of frustrations. Each level in this hierarchy contributes through the kernel and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-10 Chaoming Song

The chapter starts with a historical summary of first attempts to optimize the spin glass Hamiltonian, comparing it to recent results on searching largest cliques in random graphs. Exact algorithms to find ground states in generic spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-03 Sergio Caracciolo , Alexander K. Hartmann , Scott Kirkpatrick , Martin Weigel

Spin glasses are frustrated magnetic systems due to a random distribution of ferro- and antiferromagnetic interactions. An experimental three dimensional (3d) spin glass exhibits a second order phase transition to a low temperature spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Per Nordblad

In the past decade, significant strides in deep learning have led to numerous groundbreaking applications. Despite these advancements, the understanding of the high generalizability of deep learning, especially in such an over-parametrized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-17 Hao Liao , Wei Zhang , Zhanyi Huang , Zexiao Long , Mingyang Zhou , Xiaoqun Wu , Rui Mao , Chi Ho Yeung

A reduction procedure to obtain ground states of spin glasses on sparse graphs is developed and tested on the hierarchical lattice associated with the Migdal-Kadanoff approximation for low-dimensional lattices. While more generally…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Boettcher

We compute and analyze couples of ground states of 3D spin glass systems with the same quenched noise but periodic and anti-periodic boundary conditions for different lattice sizes. We discuss the possible different behaviors of the system,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Enzo Marinari , Giorgio Parisi

We wish to thank Stefan Boettcher for prompting us to further check and highlight the accuracy and scaling of our results. Here we provide a comprehensive response to the Comment written by him. We argue that the Comment did not account for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-15 Changjun Fan , Mutian Shen , Zohar Nussinov , Zhong Liu , Yizhou Sun , Yang-Yu Liu

Artificial spin ices are engineered arrays of dipolarly coupled nanobar magnets. They enable direct investigations of fascinating collective phenomena from their diverse microstates. However, experimental access to ground states in the…

Limited resources motivate decomposing large-scale problems into smaller,``local" subsystems and stitching together the so-found solutions. We explore the physics underlying this approach and discuss the concept of ``local hardness", i.e.,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-24 Mutian Shen , Gerardo Ortiz , Zhiqiao Dong , Martin Weigel , Zohar Nussinov

Spin glasses, generally defined as disordered systems with randomized competing interactions, are a widely investigated complex system. Theoretical models describing spin glasses are broadly used in other complex systems, such as those…

Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising approach for robotic control. However, the deployment of DRL in real-world robots is hindered by its sensitivity to environmental perturbations. While existing whitebox…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zongyuan Zhang , Tianyang Duan , Zheng Lin , Dong Huang , Zihan Fang , Zekai Sun , Ling Xiong , Hongbin Liang , Heming Cui , Yong Cui

The scaling of fluctuations in the distribution of ground-state energies or costs with the system size N for Ising spin glasses is considered using an extensive set of simulations with the Extremal Optimization heuristic across a range of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-20 Stefan Boettcher

Spin glass systems as lattices of disordered magnets with random interactions have important implications within the theory of magnetization and applications to a wide-range of hard combinatorial optimization problems. Nevertheless, despite…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-28 Fredrik Hasselgren , Max O. Al-Hasso , Amy Searle , Joseph Tindall , Marko von der Leyen

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

Scheduling is a fundamental task occurring in various automated systems applications, e.g., optimal schedules for machines on a job shop allow for a reduction of production costs and waste. Nevertheless, finding such schedules is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Pierre Tassel , Martin Gebser , Konstantin Schekotihin

This paper proposes a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) approach for solving knapsack problem. The proposed method consists of a state aggregation step based on tabular reinforcement learning to extract features and construct states. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Reza Refaei Afshar , Yingqian Zhang , Murat Firat , Uzay Kaymak

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) enable dynamic antenna positioning, offering new opportunities to enhance integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) performance. However, existing studies primarily focus on communication enhancement or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Shunxing Yang , Junteng Yao , Jie Tang , Tuo Wu , Maged Elkashlan , Chau Yuen , Merouane Debbah , Hyundong Shin , Matthew Valenti