Geometric barriers for stable and online algorithms for discrepancy minimization

D Gamarnik, EC Kizildağ… - The Thirty Sixth Annual …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
For many computational problems involving randomness, intricate geometric features of the
solution space have been used to rigorously rule out powerful classes of algorithms. This is …

Critical window of the symmetric perceptron

DJ Altschuler - Electronic Journal of Probability, 2023 - projecteuclid.org
We study the critical window of the symmetric binary perceptron, or equivalently, random
combinatorial discrepancy. Consider the problem of finding a±1-valued vector σ satisfying …

Symmetric perceptron with random labels

EC Kızıldağ, T Wakhare - 2023 International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The symmetric binary perceptron (SBP) is a random constraint satisfaction problem (CSP)
and a single-layer neural network; it exhibits intriguing features, most notably a sharp phase …

Zero-One Laws for Random Feasibility Problems

DJ Altschuler - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.13133, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce a general random model of a combinatorial optimization problem with
geometric structure that encapsulates both linear programming and integer linear …

Hardness of sampling solutions from the Symmetric Binary Perceptron

AE Alaoui, D Gamarnik - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16627, 2024 - arxiv.org
We show that two related classes of algorithms, stable algorithms and Boolean circuits with
bounded depth, cannot produce an approximate sample from the uniform measure over the …

Searching for (sharp) thresholds in random structures: where are we now?

W Perkins - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.01800, 2024 - arxiv.org
We survey the current state of affairs in the study of thresholds and sharp thresholds in
random structures on the occasion of the recent proof of the Kahn--Kalai Conjecture by Park …

Capacity threshold for the Ising perceptron

B Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18902, 2024 - arxiv.org
We show that the capacity of the Ising perceptron is with high probability upper bounded by
the constant $\alpha_\star\approx 0.833$ conjectured by Krauth and M\'ezard, under the …

Symmetric Perceptron with Random Labels

EC Kizildag, T Wakhare - Fourteenth International Conference on …, 2023 - openreview.net
The symmetric binary perceptron (SBP) is a random constraint satisfaction problem (CSP)
and a single-layer neural network; it exhibits intriguing features, most notably a sharp phase …

Two Studies of Constraints in High Dimensions: Entropy Inequalities and the Randomized Symmetric Binary Perceptron

T Wakhare - 2024 - dspace.mit.edu
We study two constrained problems in high dimensions. We study a high dimensional
inequality for the binary entropy. The perceptron is a natural model in high-dimensional …