Effect of coupling asymmetry on mean-field solutions of the direct and inverse Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model

TY - JOUR

T1 - Effect of coupling asymmetry on mean-field solutions of the direct and inverse Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model

AU - Sakellariou, Jason

AU - Roudi, Yasser

AU - Mezard, Marc

AU - Hertz, John

PY - 2012/1/1

Y1 - 2012/1/1

N2 - We study how the degree of symmetry in the couplings influences the performance of three mean-field methods used for solving the direct and inverse problems for generalized Sherrington-Kirkpatrick models. In this context, the direct problem predicts the potentially time-varying magnetizations. The three theories include the first- and second-order Plefka expansions, referred to as naive mean field (nMF) and TAP, respectively, and a mean-field theory which is exact for fully asymmetric couplings. We call the last of these simply MF theory. We show that for the direct problem, nMF performs worse than the other two approximations, TAP outperforms MF when the coupling matrix is nearly symmetric, while MF works better when it is strongly asymmetric. For the inverse problem, MF performs better than both TAP and nMF, although an ad hoc adjustment of TAP can make it comparable to MF. For high temperatures the performance of TAP and MF approach each other.

AB - We study how the degree of symmetry in the couplings influences the performance of three mean-field methods used for solving the direct and inverse problems for generalized Sherrington-Kirkpatrick models. In this context, the direct problem predicts the potentially time-varying magnetizations. The three theories include the first- and second-order Plefka expansions, referred to as naive mean field (nMF) and TAP, respectively, and a mean-field theory which is exact for fully asymmetric couplings. We call the last of these simply MF theory. We show that for the direct problem, nMF performs worse than the other two approximations, TAP outperforms MF when the coupling matrix is nearly symmetric, while MF works better when it is strongly asymmetric. For the inverse problem, MF performs better than both TAP and nMF, although an ad hoc adjustment of TAP can make it comparable to MF. For high temperatures the performance of TAP and MF approach each other.

U2 - 10.1080/14786435.2011.634857

DO - 10.1080/14786435.2011.634857

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1478-6435

VL - 92

SP - 272

EP - 279

JO - Philosophical Magazine

JF - Philosophical Magazine

IS - 1-3

ER -