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sparsity
sampling
Ising models
Bayesian sparse linear regression
Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
High-Magnetization Sampling at Low Temperatures: Ising Models and Bayesian Sparse Linear Regression
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๐ Abstract
Sparsity is a powerful structural resource in optimization and statistics. We develop frameworks for leveraging sparsity in sampling problems over the Hamming slice $\mathcal{X}_k^d:=\{\mathbf{x}\in\{\pm 1\}^d:|\{i:\mathbf{x}_i=1\}|=k\}$, in high-dimensional regimes where $k\ll d$ (i.e., where $\mathcal{X}_k^d$ is \emph{highly magnetized}). We use our frameworks to design improved samplers for canonical problems in the study of \emph{Ising models} and \emph{Bayesian sparse linear regression}. Our first main result considers the \emph{Sherrington--Kirkpatrick} (SK) model restricted to fixed-magnetization slices $\mathcal{X}_k^d$. We give a polynomial-time sampler for fixed-magnetization SK models at any inverse temperature $\beta>0$, under arbitrary external fields, provided that $k\le c_\beta d$ for an appropriate constant $c_\beta$. By combining this result with an annealing strategy for estimating normalizing constants, we obtain polynomial-time samplers for the SK model at arbitrarily low temperatures under a sufficiently strong external field of strength $h$. In the large-$\beta$ limit, our framework permits sampling at field strengths within constant factors of the \emph{Almeida--Thouless line} delineating the replica-symmetric and replica-symmetry-breaking regions ([dAT78]), improving polynomially over the field strength $h(\beta)$ required by the recent work of [BAR26]. Our second main result concerns the measurement complexity of polynomial-time Bayesian sparse linear regression. Recent work by [KSTZ25] shows how to sample from the canonical \emph{Gaussian spike-and-slab posterior} with expected sparsity $k$, at any signal-to-noise ratio, given $n\gtrsim k^3\log^3 d$ Gaussian measurements. We improve this requirement to $n\gtrsim k^{3/2}\log^2 d+k\log^3 d$, using a common sparsity-aware framework underlying both our results.
Innovation
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sparsity
sampling
Sherrington--Kirkpatrick model
Bayesian sparse linear regression
high magnetization
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