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A Friendly Tutorial on Mean-Field Spin Glass Techniques for Non-Physicists

Statistics Theory 2024-01-29 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Probability Statistics Theory

Abstract

This tutorial is based on lecture notes written for a class taught in the Statistics Department at Stanford in the Winter Quarter of 2017. The objective was to provide a working knowledge of some of the techniques developed over the last 40 years by theoretical physicists and mathematicians to study mean field spin glasses and their applications to high-dimenensional statistics and statistical learning.

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@article{arxiv.2204.02909,
  title  = {A Friendly Tutorial on Mean-Field Spin Glass Techniques for Non-Physicists},
  author = {Andrea Montanari and Subhabrata Sen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.02909},
  year   = {2024}
}

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117 pages, 9 figures

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