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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 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 give a polynomial-time algorithm to sample from the Gibbs measure of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with negligible total-variation distance (TVD) error up to inverse temperature $\beta < 1/2$. Prior work obtained TVD error guarantees…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Ewan Davies , Holden Lee , Juspreet Singh Sandhu , Jonathan Shi

We introduce efficient algorithms for approximate sampling from symmetric Gibbs distributions on the sparse random (hyper)graph. The examples we consider include (but are not restricted to) important distributions on spin systems and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Charilaos Efthymiou

Let ${\boldsymbol A}\in{\mathbb R}^{n\times n}$ be a symmetric random matrix with independent and identically distributed Gaussian entries above the diagonal. We consider the problem of maximizing $\langle{\boldsymbol \sigma},{\boldsymbol…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Andrea Montanari

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

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

We prove a hardness of sampling result for the anti-ferromagnetic Ising model on random graphs of average degree $d$ for large constant $d$, proving that when the normalized inverse temperature satisfies $\beta>1$ (asymptotically…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Neng Huang , Will Perkins , Aaron Potechin

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

In this work, we study the maximum matching problem from the perspective of sensitivity. The sensitivity of an algorithm $A$ on a graph $G$ is defined as the maximum Wasserstein distance between the output distributions of $A$ on $G$ and on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yuichi Yoshida , Zihan Zhang

Spin glass models with quadratic-type Hamiltonians are disordered statistical physics systems with competing ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic spin interactions. The corresponding Gibbs measures belong to the exponential family…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Wei-Kuo Chen , Arnab Sen , Qiang Wu

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

We establish the average-case hardness of the algorithmic problem of exact computation of the partition function associated with the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses with Gaussian couplings and random external field. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-19 David Gamarnik , Eren Kizildag

The magnetic systems with disorder form an important class of systems, which are under intensive studies, since they reflect real systems. Such a class of systems is the spin glass one, which combines randomness and frustration. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-13 Ioannis A. Hadjiagapiou

The Sherrington--Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses, the Hopfield model of neural networks and the Ising spin glass are all models of binary data belonging to the one-parameter exponential family with quadratic sufficient statistic. Under…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-18 Sourav Chatterjee

Different sets of metastable states can be reached in glassy systems below some transition temperature depending on initial conditions and details of the dynamics. This is investigated for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-13 Heinz Horner

This paper is devoted to the stochastic approximation of entropically regularized Wasserstein distances between two probability measures, also known as Sinkhorn divergences. The semi-dual formulation of such regularized optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot

Numerical data on the probability distribution of the equilibrium relaxation time of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model are obtained by means of dynamical Monte Carlo simulation, for several values of the system size $N$ and temperature $T$.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-08-09 Alain Billoire

Estimating a $d$-dimensional distribution $\mu$ by the empirical measure $\hat{\mu}_n$ of its samples is an important task in probability theory, statistics and machine learning. It is well known that $\mathbb{E}[\mathcal{W}_p(\hat{\mu}_n,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Martin Larsson , Jonghwa Park , Johannes Wiesel

We show that in the Ising pure $p$-spin model of spin glasses, shattering takes place at all inverse temperatures $\beta \in (\sqrt{(2 \log p)/p}, \sqrt{2\log 2})$ when $p$ is sufficiently large as a function of $\beta$. Of special interest…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Ahmed El Alaoui
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