Capacity lower bound for the Ising perceptron

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In this paper the authors derive a lower bound on the capacity of the Ising perceptron with Gaussian disorder. This is equivalent to considering an \(N\)-dimensional discrete cube intersected by \(M\) random half-spaces. The question is when this intersection is non-empty, and the conjecture by \textit{W. Krauth} and \textit{M. Mézard} [``Storage capacity of memory networks with binary couplings, J. Physique 50, No. 20, 3057--3066 (1989)], based on the physics-based nonrigorous replica method, is that when \(N\) goes to infinity and if and only if \(M < N \times \alpha^*\), this is the case, for a given \(\alpha^*\) which is about 0.83. The authors prove a weak version, which provides a serious step forward towards the conjecture, in which the Krauth-Mezard constant is a lower bound with positive probability. Since then, the result has been improved to a probability-one statement by \textit{S. Nakajima} and \textit{N. Sun} [in: Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM-SIAM symposium on discrete algorithms, SODA 2023, Florence, Italy, January 22--25, 2023. Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM); New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 638--674 (2023; Zbl 07847988)] and under some technical conditions the full conjecture has been proved by \textit{B. Huang} [``Capacity threshold for the Ising perceptron, Preprint, \url{arXiv:2404.18902}], who provided the upper bound. The authors' proof employs a sophisticated conditional second-moment argument plus ideas inspired by the TAP approach to spin glasses.



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