Disordered systems insights on computational hardness

D Gamarnik, C Moore… - Journal of Statistical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review article we discuss connections between the physics of disordered systems,
phase transitions in inference problems, and computational hardness. We introduce two …

Tight lipschitz hardness for optimizing mean field spin glasses

B Huang, M Sellke - Communications on Pure and Applied …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
We study the problem of algorithmically optimizing the Hamiltonian HN H_N of a spherical or
Ising mixed pp‐spin glass. The maximum asymptotic value OPT OPT of HN/N H_N/N is …

Low-degree hardness of random optimization problems

D Gamarnik, A Jagannath… - 2020 IEEE 61st Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of finding nearly optimal solutions of optimization problems with
random objective functions. Such problems arise widely in the theory of random graphs …

Following the ground states of full‐RSB spherical spin glasses

E Subag - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We focus on spherical spin glasses whose Parisi distribution has support of the form [0, q].
For such models we construct paths from the origin to the sphere that consistently remain …

A Short Review on Novel Approaches for Maximum Clique Problem: from Classical algorithms to Graph Neural Networks and Quantum algorithms

R Marino, L Buffoni, B Zavalnij - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09742, 2024 - arxiv.org
This manuscript provides a comprehensive review of the Maximum Clique Problem, a
computational problem that involves finding subsets of vertices in a graph that are all …

Rethinking Mean-Field Glassy Dynamics and Its Relation with the Energy Landscape: The Surprising Case of the Spherical Mixed -Spin Model

G Folena, S Franz, F Ricci-Tersenghi - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
The spherical p-spin model is a fundamental model in statistical mechanics of a disordered
system with a random first-order transition. The dynamics of this model is interesting both for …

Hardness of Random Optimization Problems for Boolean Circuits, Low-Degree Polynomials, and Langevin Dynamics

D Gamarnik, A Jagannath, AS Wein - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2024 - SIAM
We consider the problem of finding nearly optimal solutions of optimization problems with
random objective functions. Such problems arise widely in the theory of random graphs …

Crisanti–Sommers formula and simultaneous symmetry breaking in multi-species spherical spin glasses

E Bates, Y Sohn - Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2022 - Springer
There is a rich history of expressing the limiting free energy of mean-field spin glasses as a
variational formula over probability measures on [0, 1], where the measure represents the …

The high-dimensional landscape paradigm: Spin-glasses, and beyond

V Ros, YV Fyodorov - Spin Glass Theory and Far Beyond: Replica …, 2023 - World Scientific
In this chapter we review recent developments on the characterization of random
landscapes in high dimension. We focus in particular on the problem of characterizing the …

The high-d landscapes paradigm: spin-glasses, and beyond

V Ros, YV Fyodorov - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.07975, 2022 - arxiv.org
We review recent developments on the characterization of random landscapes in high-
dimension. We focus in particular on the problem of characterizing the landscape topology …